DS#1 spent the night with a friend last night (to play Guitar Hero
until 4 a.m.! crazy crazy ). He needed to come home a decent hour so he
could get some sleep before he went to work. Well, she showed up...at
6:45 am...with a dog in tow that he had found on one of our busiest
main streets!
The dog was a neutered Pointer (purebred) who was
obviously a working dog--waaaaay too much energy to be just a house
dog. I called the police (AC is attached to the police here in town)
and told them I am a shelter volunteer and could they come and get him?
The dispatcher said that the officers don't transport animals in their
cars. I mentioned Darleen's truck (I KNOW they use it on the weekend)
but he had a note saying the shelter was FULL, dang it! However, the
dispatcher asked if he could give out my first name and number if
someone called.
We waited an hour since things were busy with
the officers. Dispatch had called me to let me know they were trying to
work something out. I was getting worried when the phone rang at about
8 a.m. and it was Hammer's owner! They came to get him (he had slipped
out of an open gate where they had parked their travel trailer) and had
been out since 1 a.m.! Sure enough, he is a hunting dog (going out to
hunt tomorrow) and they had been looking for him most of the night.
They gave DS#1 a $10.00 reward (which he did NOT want to take, but they insisted) and took Hammer home.
I
had gone to bed at 1:15 a.m., so have been tired all day. I took a nap
and even dozed in the car on the way to the Scout Shop to get Scouting
merit badges.
I am just glad DS#1 was in the right place to save
Hammer. FWIW, the lady has just moved here to go to school and the
Hammer still had his old tags on from clear across the state, so we
would have been hard-pressed to track his owner down that way.