103 you are all over it. If this dog were worth anything the previous owners would have sold it. The fact that it was dumped proves that it has no monetary value and is probably untrained and poorly behaved. If it had any redeeming qualities they would have made an effort to keep it. I am guessing these people got this dog not knowing what a drain dogs are, finanically and otherwise, and dumped their expensive, smelly, pooping, peeing, barfing, barking, humping, slobbering, jumping mistake on the unsuspecting OP before it put them in the poor house and are laughing and screaming "SUCKER" as we speak. If this happened to me I would have called the local animal control officer, who would come to my home and take it off my hands (sorry, don't know if there is such an office in Canada). Additionally this person is connected with the police and has the resources to hunt down and punish the previous owners. Of course that is highly unlikely as I would never have agreed to watch the stinking thing in the first place and it would never have set one dirty paw in my home.

103: Yeah, who the **** wants a dog with no monetary value or AKC papers? It's not like you can train it or anything, and since it's had one [possibly] bad home, it's surely incapable of ever showing any kind of love, affection, or personality. This is exactly why I don't believe in foster homes or adoption for abandoned human kids either-- they clearly have no redeeming value. If they'd been worth anything to begin with, or had bothered to put in a little damn effort to be more loveable, they'd obviously never have been abandoned in the first place, amirite?!