Pay Up,

or the dog gets it!

well not quite, it was pay up or we take your pet dog and sell it on ebay, strange but true although the story is only now becoming talked about, because the new owner in Germany, a police officer, complained that the pug suffered from undisclosed health problems, She told the Ahlener Tageblatt newspaper that Edda has needed four operations due to eye problems, including an emergency surgery during Christmas, She is now asking for a €1,800 ($2,050) reimbursement from the city for the medical expenses, as well as the €750 purchasing price, this bizarre story started back in November, 2018, when a court bailiff and two city officials showed up at an Ahlen family’s home to seize valuables as compensation for financial debts owed to the municipality, the family, who preferred to remain anonymous, told local newspaper Ahlener Tageblatt that the officials first tried to seize her disabled husband’s wheelchair, but couldn’t because it wasn’t their property, instead, they settled on the family’s pet dog, a pedigree pug named Edda, although these events occurred last year, the story only recently made news “How it all ended, that was absolutely not okay,” Edda’s former owner told German reporters, She admitted that the seizure was legal, and that the dog was “in good hands”, but added that her kids miss the dog, I wonder if petnapping will catch one over here? as an aside, Ahlen authorities have stated that the seizure of the dog was completely legal “in so far as it is a valuable pet”. Still, they have ordered an internal investigation into the incident, good job the kids were not at home, who knows, next time the authorities might take one of them! photograph AnjaPetrol/Pixabay.