Big Country Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 And it felt real good. About 3pm, my wife sends me a text with a picture of a dog that she found wandering our neighborhood. The couple neighbors she saw out had never seen it before. Very friendly dog, it was circling an old lady and her poodle, trying to play when my wife saw it and checked to make sure tha this old lady was okay. So, my wife decides to bring it to our house, puts it in the backyard, gets it some food and water and calls animal control as the dog has no collar or tags, so maybe it has a chip. I get home around 5:15 and animal control has not shown up. As I am walking in the house, I hear someone calling out a name from a minivan driving slowly, but they go past our cross street and I can;t get their attention to find out if they are looking for the dog. I figure they will circle around a bit, so I take my dog, who has been going nuts cooped up inside with this other dog in the backyard, for a quick walk towards the part of the neighborhood where she found the dog, hoping to find these people if they are still out. Right as I get off of my street and start heading down, the car drives by and the driver rolls her window down asking if I had seen a dog. I show her the picture of the dog on my phone, and low and behold we have found the owners (this lady was a neighbor, the owners were in the car behind them) and I direct them to my house. They have had the dog for just 3 days and it got out of it's crate and out of the house (my wife said the dog was quite smart and had almost opened our back door by standing up and pushing down on the door handle). The big kicker, and the part that makes me glad we did what we could to find the owners, is that the dog was for the family's 14 or 15 year old daughter, who was in the car, who is suffering from leukemia (or some other form of cancer, she mentioned having a transfusion earlier that day). Also, right as they got to our house, the animal control officer showed up. He checked the chip, and it turns out it wasn't registered in their system, so he took care of that for them. Anyway, just wanted to share a feel good story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Footballjoe Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Dick Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Very cool story. Dog owners definitely stick together. I couldn't tell you how many dogs I've grabbed over the years and tracked down owners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuke'em ttg Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 nice work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajncajn Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiegie Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 I am pretty sure that somebody filmed you doing this and turned it into a cell phone commercial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 nice work +1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Very cool story. Dog owners definitely stick together. I couldn't tell you how many dogs I've grabbed over the years and tracked down owners. Yup. If I see a loose dog, I generally give it a shot to see if I can read it's tags... or if I'm getting a bad vibe, I call Animal Control to take a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorcher Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_bone65 Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Good job Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darin3 Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 I am pretty sure that somebody filmed you doing this and turned it into a cell phone commercial. I don't know if I should feel embarrassed or bummed that weigie coined this joke before I had a chance to. But yeah, nice work BC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Very cool and good job. Have done similar a few times as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chargerz Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Way to go, BC!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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