Help find Dude (NC, VA, GA, SC)

DESPERATELY seeking information on the health and welfare of this beautiful FORMENTINO CANE CORSO MALE, AROUND 18 MONTHS.

So I do not violate any terms of service the names have been *** out.

He was given to M***** C****** of Durham, NC, R****** D** R***** on July 19, 2009.

I did not just dump this dog. It took 3 months of agonizing decision making to place him with a rescue. I had an unfortunate surgical incident that left me in a wheelchair and bedridden for months and this beautiful boy was not living the full and happy life he deserved.

I gave a check to M****** C****** for $150.00 for his neutering as she stated her vet would update him on his shots (he was coming due) and neuter for $120.00 When we met the price was suddenly $220.00 but all I had was a check for $150. and she stated another person had volunteered to make up the difference. This dog, if still unaltered, is worth around $1200.00 on the low end.
Since turning him over, (and I have no signed owner release agreement), but a series of emails that SPECIFICALLY state I am to have the full name, address and phone number of adopter and that this is to be an "OPEN ADOPTION", I have been unable to receive ANY verifiable information or photos, which I was promised by EVERYONE including M****** while he was in her care.

I received many phone calls from M******. There were so many stories I lost track. One that stuck out was she took him to be neutered and then a few days later he attacked and killed a raccoon that was "threatening" her and her little dog. He supposedly received several deep scratches. I immediately became concerned wanted the vets number who treated him and the information from the ACO to make sure the raccoon was not rabid. Of course I received none of this.

Then she adopts him on a "trial basis" to some strange couple who would not allow me to have their phone number or address, plus, who adopts out a dog who has only been neutered 5 days before and had been attacked by a raccoon that you didn't even know if it was rabid??? I made it VERY CLEAR this was a strong and dominant dog that needed an experienced handler, yet the female half of this "adopters" was coming off as very weak and terrified, like she was in witness protection. I also received 2 photos from this person, both which had been lifted from websites, which I recently discovered, but again, none of Dude.

I could not reach M****** for almost a month and finally contacted "R*****". She gave me a new phone number, the other was a land line which I verified, and this was a prepay phone. She tells me she couldn't find my information, glad I called, etc., Dude had been returned BUT there was another person who was interested, this time a male in Raleigh. The stories start to become more and more convoluted as time wore on. I could not get photos of him, phone numbers, addresses, nothing to verify he was neutered, nothing to verify he still is alive. This guy supposedly took him to upstate NY on a "visit" to his parents. I then receive an email from "Jamie" who supposedly has him. Included were of course, no photos of Dude, but other photos one in particular of a Cane Corso that is supposedly owned by a good friend of his. Today I found not only that photo on the internet, but the name and owner of the dog, IN NOVA SCOTIA. Not even close to the information that was given to me. I have duly notified him.

This is only the tip of the iceberg. I have all documentation to back all this up. and more , so this is not libel, slander or anything close to it. Truth is truth.

All I want to do is FIND DUDE! I want to make sure he is healthy, happy, loved and NEUTERED.

The last straw was last week. I received several calls from M****** and in those calls I asked for a copy of the adoption agreement between the rescue and the adopter, with the verifiable information because she ASKED ME TO DO A BACKGROUND CHECK ON THIS PERSON. Suddenly her husband, who is seriously ill, was away in VA Beach with his buddies and he took the computer so she didn't have it. Then she told me they used it to email each other instead of call, subject changed when I suggested he email her the file. Then I suggested "R*****" would have the information, and she stated she was "out of town on vacation". Then I told her I was contacting Durham county Police to file theft charges if he didn't sign an agreement, she said she already did and they would help us anyway they could. When pressed with who it was she spoke to, after claiming the week before she had a "friend" who was a detective there, she told me "oh, it was the lady on the desk". When I told her I was calling, and needed at least a starting point of where Dude had been neutered, she told me she didn't have it done, "R*****" did and again, she was "away". YET she had told me when he was in the "raccoon fight" that she had taken him to her vet and he had checked his stitches. When pressed for his info, she "didn't have it on her." You don't remember your own vets name and you're in rescue??? What are the odds?

Maybe this is all one giant, incalcuable set of coincidences. If so I think I need someone on the level of Stephen Hawkings to figure it out. I do know I have 5 different email addresses since this began and 83 emails between all of them and only two have verifiable links, M****** and the young man who supposedly adopted Dude, who is actually a female whose hobbies are listed as "Shawn".

I will NOT GIVE UP until I find him, or find out what happened to him. My entire family is devastated. I cannot concentrate, sleep fully, I wake up dreaming of him, I cry at the drop of a hat. I CAN'T BELIEVE I LET HIM DOWN LIKE THIS.

PLEASE, PASS THIS ON TO ANY RESCUE GROUP OR ANYONE YOU THINK CAN HELP!