Reply #22: I'm sure no one did it on purpose. Your second comment is true.

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In our house, Lucy's favorite place was under our bed.
Our neighbors first found her running hell-for-leather down the road in a thunderstorm.
She was terrified of thunderstorms.
They made a good faith effort to locate her owner, but to no avail so they kept her. They have two little girls who adored her and she returned the love.
Very protective of them.

She had obviously been abused by her former owner too.
She would cower when you first tried to pet her and sometimes suffered involuntary urination if you verbally chastised her for something.
We soon learned NOT to do that.

Yes, we have a leash law, but the neighborhood gave Lucy a pass. She was kind of everybody's dog. Never a problem, never caused any trouble.