About 2 years ago I rescued an Akita mix from the ditch by my folks' farm. She was dumped and left along with 6 siblings. The neighbor girl caught a couple and took them to the animal shelter, and the dog catcher came out and got the rest... save One. The couldn't catch her and said they didn't have the time/manpower to chase after her. Long story short, I caught her between the field and the culvert under the road she was living in and sat in the ditch and waited patiently for her, and within 20 minutes she was in my lap, and has been in my life ever since. She's a very unique dog, and there's not very many of them around here (small farm community in Ohio) and being mixed with what we've generally assumed was Lab makes her even more unique. I always wondered what happened to her siblings and about a month ago I was at our small town local little festival and was talking to a friend of a friend (etc) and she mentioned she had an Akita x Lab mix. Well, we got to talking and she may very well have my dog's brother. However, she didn't get him at the shelter. From her story, she stopped at a house just out of town w/ a "free puppies" sign out and got her dog as about an 8wk old puppy. She got him about a month before I found my pup, who was guessed to be about 12wks when I took her to the vet. She said there were about 10 pups when she picked hers out, so my theory is (and I could either be right on or WAY off, so it's just a theory) that perhaps they tried the "free puppies" sign for so long and then just took the rest of them and dumped them? At any rate, I drove by the house in question and they in fact have a Black Lab type dog (had some white on his chest) running lose in their fenced front yard, and an almost all white w/ a dark brownish or black head, but definitely Akita, in a small kennel run next to their barn. This could be where my dog came from, and I want to find out, but I don't want to barge up to these people's house and say "Hey I got this dog from the ditch and blah blah blah...." so I was wondering what you all would do if you were in this situation?