Bella was returned to the Humane Society this afternoon and is now home with her family.

This is really great news, despite the fact that there's a 10-year-old girl who is likely feeling might low right now. And I hope that someone in the community comes through and makes sure she gets the companion that she supposedly had saved up her money to get.

Still, there are so many...gaps...in the Human Society's stories that I'm having trouble reconciling. Like Bella not being where her owners or their friends and neighbours could identify her. Although the president of the SVSPCA denies it, I've wondered since the story broke if the people who adopted Bella weren't somehow connected to the agency...either employees or friends of employees or something.

And the SVSPCA claims that the family who adopted Bella had been on vacation and just came home to the tidal wave of media attention and allegedly had no idea this was going on. Yet, a local talk show host spoke to the president of the SVSPCA yesterday and she told him she had spoken to the family and they had refused to return Bella. So, which is it?

And, if the family was so damn attached to Bella, why did they go on vacation and leave her (the story was they were on vacation and Bella had been sleeping on the little girl's bed for four days)?

There are just too many gaps here. But I am glad Bella is home where she belongs.