December 02, 2011
Runaways
A girl and boy, "Precious" and "Brownie", according to their tags:
Wendy was pulling the trash to the curb for the pickup when she saw two small dogs wandering loose. Friendly enough, but they had places to go and trouble to get into. She came into the house for the keys to follow in the car to try to get the dogs to get into car. I went to help. Found them already four blocks further east, I got out to coax them to come close enough so I could look at thier tags. Names, address, phone number. Put the numbers into my cell, handed it to Wendy to call. Blah Blah, hang up, stay here they will be arriving to pick up the dogs.
A few minutes the dogs had learned that Wendy and I and not going to kill them, got them into the car so they wouldn't wander off. Owner arrives, off they go, I go home to check the address in maps.google. I can see why they were willing to rest -- from their home to where we picked them up was just over a mile straight line, they had wandered at least 1.5 miles and were going further away.
This is why your dogs need collars and tags. They DO wander off. And they don't know how to get back home.
Posted by Paladin at December 2, 2011 05:08 PM