Stray or lost

It is very frustrating and I would be worried if maddie or zack got out and the person immediately thought they were strays. 

BF and I were driving to his house in the summer time, up a country boonie road, where houses are very far apart, and at the side of the road we came across a yellow lab, who looked like he didn't care at all, and a golden retreiver, we stopped, and the look the golden was giving me, he knew he shouldn't be out! The look of guilt on this dog's face was priceless!  I told BF, that dog knows he will be in trouble for being out, those are definitely not strays!  And so we drove up the road to the first house we came to, I knocked on the door and asked the lady if she had dogs, a lab and a retriever, she said yeeees, lol they were hers and she was so grateful.  BF and I never drive off if we see any dogs out wandering around.

Gina, what you said about the people who say that dogs that get out must be treated badly because they ran away makes me so mad as well!!  Maddie and Zack, I know are treated very very well here, and Zack, given the chance at the front door will BOLT! Right across the street into the park across the road from my house.  I think he has done this about 3 times or so and the only way to get him to come back (he is very strubborn) is to go across to the park and sit on the ground lol he will then come charging straight for them! lol 

I've always wondered if Sassy was a stray or lost. She wandered into a friend's yard one Sunday as they were packing for a rafting trip out of state. The friend took her to the local shelter but left me a VM msg because she knew I might be interested. I went to the shelter that Monday morning and then waited the 3 days to adopt her. I checked the newspaper for a couple weeks but that was 7 yrs ago and I wasn't familiar with Craigslist, so I didn't think to check there. Part of me felt that if no one came to the shelter to look for her in those 3 days, then maybe no one cared. Another part of me has always wondered if someone was looking for her though and I've felt sad at the thought that they lost a pet they loved.

JackieG

OT, luvmyswissy I LUV your new sig pic!!  Cracks me up everytime since my dogs run on the treadmill........

Thank you.  He is the poster child for Cesar!

cakana

I've always wondered if Sassy was a stray or lost.

When I was kid we found a stray dog my BFF and her family ended up keeping him, we named him Tramp.  I was young and don't know if they tried to find the owners, I would think they probably did.  Many years later (maybe 5) a man stopped at my girlfriends house to talk to the Dad who was outside working in the yard with Tramp.  He told the family that he has been driving by their house for years and seeing Tramp who use to be his dog, he lived about two miles down the road in a another neighborhood.  He explained that they lost Tramp and couldn't find him and after some time got another dog, about a year after Tramp was lost he drove by and saw Tramp with the family outside and decided not to say anything or get his dog.  Since his kids were OK now and he knew how devastating it would be to take him from these children he just kept it quiet he never even told his wife he knew where Tramp was.

Dawn, OMG, that story! 

In the next small town is a grocery store where I sometimes stop. They have a community message board outside the doors. There was a missing dog notice and the dog described had come up to me and Shadow on one of our walks when I still walked in our little town. I called and she came to my town. I showed her where I saw the dog and which way he went after our encounter.

She was having some work done on her roof and the workers opened the gate and left it that way, which allowed the two dogs to get out. One dog had already been killed by traffic and the other one I saw was still missing. And she was a concerned and competent owner. And these were older dogs, too. And such mistakes happen.

hmmm... I'm trying to think if I know you... we grew up in Indiana, found a "stray" named him Tramp.  My parents did call around trying to find his owners, with no luck. After about 2 months my parents had him fixed (my mom has always been a big proponent of spay/neuter) she figured that if the owners were found, maybe he wouldn't wonder now that he was neutered.  Long story short, after we had him about a year, the man who had owned him stopped by... but we kept him.  This would have been in Carroll County Indiana early/mid 90's....

either way it's a funny story that it's so similar!!

No we are in NJ, but isn't it a small world!