Whoever owns the bitch is solely responsible for it becoming pregnant but also owns any resulting pups. It's been that way for ages. That's the risk people take in owning intact female dogs. Normally, this isn't a problem for people with female breeders and they know they have to keep their bitches in heat away from intact males if they aren't willing to live with the results of an accidental breeding. Sometimes it just happens that no matter how careful one is a bitch in heat manages to escape the property and find an intact male to mate with. That's how their hormones are - bitches in heat WANT to mate at that time, and nature has their bodies put out tempting odors far and wide to let all intact males in the area to know where they are. And anyone that owns a female breeder would know this. This woman was just unbelievably irresponsible in taking her bitch in heat to a no leash dog park knowing that there may be other males there that were intact while providing no physical barrier for her bitch so that if she was mounted penetration wouldn't be possible. There's a reason these bitch diapers/barriers are made.
Going by what this woman did I really think that she's just not gotten around to having her bitch spayed, and is too ignorant to know that her bitch was in heat. Once she found out her bitch was pregnant she didn't want to deal with the medical care or the resulting pups. She's already so stupid that she thinks that the size of the male that MIGHT have impregnated her bitch would doom her to death.
She doesn't know if any other intact males may have impregnated her bitch. Heat lasts for weeks. The pregnancy could have happened with another dog and at an entirely different time. She just up and found her dog pregnant and is trying to scam your brother into forking over his funds for her to deal with it, and so doesn't want to deal with it that she came up with this ridiculous story that because the dog she knew mounted her bitch was a large breed the pups would kill her because she doesn't want to be responsible for the pregnancy care, birth and resulting pups and probably knowing she will own them and thus will be solely responsible for them. Don't let her. If your brother needs to consult an attorney, do so. NONE of this is his responsibility as the legal responsibility lies solely with the owner of the bitch, and she can't even prove it was his dog that impregnated her bitch.
I don't know what state you live in, but here in PA the head of the dog law department (which oddly comes under the agricultural department) is excellent and very helpful. I would start there. Whoever that person is in your state will be located in your state's capitol. That person can explain the law and point out where your brother can find legal documents to copy to show this woman that this is none of his responsibility. If it even comes to that. I wouldn't even contact this scam artist, and tell her to look up the law and pound sand if she tries any more contact with you or your brother. I actually had to start with calling my own township administration to just find out who I could talk to about a totally different dog law related matter. They looked up who that person was, already knew they where their office was (in the capitol) and even patched me through directly to his office. I still can't even remember the name of the "dog law" department, I just remember how odd it seemed that it came under the umbrella of the agricultural department, and apparently most states also do it that way.
As for your brother's dog, hormones are very powerful in dogs. Regardless of how normally obedient he is when it comes to a rare gem of a bitch in heat paraded right under his nose nature is going to take over. This is why intact males are always trying to escape when they scent the delectable odor of a bitch in heat in the area and follow their nose to the temptress and why bitches in heat are also wont to escape in order to get to those eager intact males. Nature makes both sexes VERY interested in breeding to the point of acting very uncharacteristically when a bitch is in heat or when an intact male knows there is a bitch in heat in the area.
I'll tell you what, the very fact that this woman took her bitch in heat to a no leash dog park where she knew there might be intact males tells me she had no idea her dog was in heat in the first place, and has no idea what other dogs mounted hers that may have impregnated her dog either on that day or sometime after. All she knows is that she's now stuck with a pregnant bitch that she doesn't want to deal with nor deal with the resulting pups and is trying to make it your brother's problem to restore her dog to an non-pregnant state. She's pulling a scam.
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and I thought that was a pretty sweet gig.
