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Dux Treat: Mother Arrested Over “Dognapping” After Son Calls Cops

It appears that the notorious dog vixon Puddles has competition from a golden retriever named Dux — a dog that has torn a family apart and led to a son calling police to arrest his mother, Margareta Doughty. The arrest came after protracted litigation over Dux and his . . . well . . . “doggie essence”.

Margareta Doughty is a breeder who claimed part ownership in Dux. This led her into litigation with her son and daughter-in-law, Melanie and Tyson Doughty. Ultimately, there was a settlement where Margareta to visit Massachusetts for seven days to take Dux to a veterinary hospital for a DNA sample and pre-freezing semen evaluation. Her son would then agree to return to the hospital within 40 days for sperm collection, which they would freeze and store. In return for Dux’s sperm and rights to his progeny, she gave up any ownership rights. However, after she failed to return from the hospital, her son called the cops on Margareta who was found at an airport with the hot pooch. It is not clear whether the dog was taped to her body under her clothes like the scene in Midnight Express, but it is thought that he was in a crate.

She will now be charged with larceny. Her son could also charge her with conversion or trespass to chattel in a tort action. For his part, Dux is back with the son.

For the full story and a picture of the latest dog vixon, click here

8 thoughts on “Dux Treat: Mother Arrested Over “Dognapping” After Son Calls Cops”

  1. ….But then again, if I AM the solipsist, then Kevin Bacon also exists only in my mind.

    Thus all things are actually only one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon.

    QED.

    lol

  2. But then again, if I AM the solipsist, then Kevin Bacon also exists only in my mind.

    Thus all things are actually only one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon.

    QED.

    lol

  3. “Thingum Bob, either you assume people know, always, what the Hell YOU are referring to without YOUR having to introduce yourself or explain it – which means it’s all going on in YOUR head AND you like it that way.”

    “Or YOU naturally believe your wackiness shouldn’t have any great significance to people around you, anyway.”

    “So, which is it?”

    Er, um…

    I’m a/the wacky solipsist?

    http://www.iep.utm.edu/s/solipsis.htm

    No, wait; if I’m the solipsist and the universe only exists in MY mind, then I’m responsible for G.W. Bush.

    What an awful thought….

  4. Thingum Bob, either you assume people know, always, what the Hell YOU are referring to without YOUR having to inroduce yourself or explain it – which means it’s all going on in YOUR head AND you like it that way.

    Or YOU naturally believe your wackiness shouldn’t have any great significance to people around you, anyway.

    So, which is it?

  5. “Another case that has gone to the dog.”

    Would ya believe that Muppet Show line flashed through my head just before the Airplane quote?

    Did I say believe? Sorry, epistemically speaking, I meant to say it’s the truth.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

    Regards,

    Bob

    P.S.

    Can you imagine the bonus points for segueing between dognapping to Immanuel Kant to Kevin Bacon?

    “The Imagination is a blind but indispensable function of the soul without which we should have no knowledge whatever but of which we are scarcely even conscious.”

    I Kant remember if I heard that in a Kevin Bacon movie or not.

    Righty-o

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