Check flyers, ads, shelters and pounds to find a lost dog. Don't give up searching; persistence pays off.
My dogs find lots of stuff to bark about when they're outside. A few weeks ago, it was the possum, but this time it was a lost dog. Sometimes neighbor dogs, out on potty break, stop by my fence to say hi but this dog was obviously lost. Clearly arthritic and old, the poor thing seemed exhausted and confused. I put a leash on her but she would not get up so I carried her to my gate, gave her water and set out around the neighborhood to try to find her owner. I reasoned that she couldn't have come very far in her condition but no one I talked to had lost a dog or recognized the description. So off to the shelter we went, where I cleaned her up and made her comfortable with a bed and food. At the shelter we keep a list of descriptions of dogs whose owners are looking for them, but she was not on it, so I tacked up flyers around my neighborhood and have a free found ad coming out in tomorrow's paper. Many times dogs without id are never reunited with their owner but I have some hope for her because a pound worker said someone had called looking for a dog of her description that was lost just a couple of blocks from me. However, the pound had failed to get contact info. Grrrr! But I gave them my contact info and am hoping the owner does not give up searching.
