I get so MAD!

March 7th, 2005 at 12:15pm Posted by Bill

We do love animals, but honestly, what is it with us and small, blind, lost housepets?

We were in the front yard Saturday, and Kathy noticed a pudgy little dog walking down the middle of the street. She looked like a dachsund-beagle mix, and generally seemed oblivious to the fact that she would’ve been hit by the next car to come around the corner at the end of the street.

Kathy went out into the street to look at the dog’s tag, but she was a bit skittish and recoiled from Kathy’s touch. She turned direction as if she was going to walk into our yard, but instead of hopping up onto the curb, she just bumped right into it, chest-first. She shook her head and turned and kept walking along the curb a bit more. I gently picked her up and took her into our yard.

She had a tag on her collar, and looked like a very well-fed, gentle old dog. The address on the tag was several miles away in Tigard, so we were a bit puzzled how this blind dog ended up in our neighborhood. I called the number on the phone and got an answering machine. There was no indication from the outgoing message that this was the correct number, so I left a simple message saying that we were taking care of the dog, and to please call back.

The dog’s owner called several hours later, extremely grateful that we had taken the dog out of the street and had cared for it. She had just moved from her place in Tigard into a house just down the street from us, and didn’t realize there was a hole in the fence just large enough for the dog to fit through. Her husband came down to meet us and take the dog back home.

This had a much happier ending than the previous blind stray pet experience (we confirmed with the vet a few days later that they had to put that cat down. Lexi cried and cried when she heard the news.)

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