I work at a shelter and Tuesday nights I work late because I teach training classes. Well tonight a coworker and I got out of the training building and hear a new dog bark. There are plenty of dogs that live near the training building and the shelter, but this bark is not one we had either heard before and it sounded like a dog in trouble. We can't figure out where it's coming from, but it sounds pretty close and in the direction of the shelter, so we both think "crap what if someone left a dog at the shelter" about the same time. We drive over and sure enough some idiot has tied a pittie to the fence by the receiving door. Our receiving department is open 10 hours/day, 6 days a week, is open admission, and had been closed less than 3 hours at this point. Some stupid person doesn't even have the decency to relinquish his/her dog in person, they have to freakin chain her to the gate in the middle of the night knowing full well no one would be there until about 7am. Grrr.
Anyway the dog was lunging and barking when we arrived, but some hotdogs and cheese leftover from class had her wiggling and ready to follow me anywhere in about 3 minutes. She's nice looking black pibble girl, who appears pregnant. My coworker and I got her situated in a kennel with no trouble, unhooked her too big collar and knotted cable, filled out some paperwork, and then headed home. Pibble girl has 5 days to be claimed now.
*sigh* sometimes I wonder what goes through people's heads. 