found a dog today

[misdee]

was walking to the shops and spotted a jack russel dog running after a bunch of men. though nothing of it, till i saw them shoo her away. she was about to run across the road again but i managed to get her to come to me and pick her up. I asked a woman walking past if she knew whose dog it was, as it didnt have a tag. she didnt, and was about to walk to the local vets with the dog to see if it was chipped, when one of dd1's friends mum came round the corner. On the off-chance she knew whose dog it was, i called out to her about it/ she looked shocked and it was her dog! she has no idea how she got out, or even if her other dogs had also managed to get out. i think the little mischeif maker had followed her to the shops lol. the dog did look like she was in trouble with that 'look' dogs do, of 'uh oh, busted!'.

she took her dog home, and i'm glad she had a happy ending.

just couldnt belive people were shooing away this dog though and letting her run across busy roads :(

i know my boys would escape like a shot, if they would stop eating anything and everything in sigh first lol. but always hoped people would help iyswim.

"People" did help - you did. There are others like you. :)

But you can't expect everyone to join in.

but the vets was just round the corner. they could have taken her there. and not shooed her away across a road :( had a vision of her being hit, and then making a very messy dash to the vets with two upset kiddies in tow.

Thank god for people like you misdee.

Many years ago I was driving up the A10 just coming out of London, where the road widened significantly and was divided by crash barriers. There were houses laid back off the road and I saw a man ahead appear and take his chances to cross the road (bloody idiot). He was followed by a dog, who he tried to shoo back across the traffic.

I could do nothing but watch as a car ahead of me hit the dog full on. Luckily for me the road was reasonably quiet, I hit the hazards and reversed like a woman possessed. Abandoned the car and ran to the dog who was lying on the road, screaming at a bunch of locals who stood helplessly on the roadside to bring me a sheet or blanket so I could move him whilst minimising the risk of further injury.

I knelt on the road beside him, checked his gums, which were pale, almost white-grey a sign of shock. His shallow breathing stopped and I had lost him. I sat on the road sobbing.

It turned out that the man wasn't the dog's owner as I'd thought (after I'd called him all the c*s under the sun) and that the dog had got out from a nearby garden. My ex-husband told me that a day later there were flowers by the roadside for the dog, a much loved family pet.

I'll never forget that day, it still brings me to tears now and I still feel responsible somehow.

I will also never forget the idiot who shooed him back into the path of traffic and the people who stood by, unwilling to soil one of their sheets to move the dog from further harm (and me and my husband, come to that).

As I said, thank god for those like you.

Hugs and virtual flowers from me to you.

Yes you fucking well CAN expect everyone to help, unless they have good reason not to (SN, disability, genuine dog phobia etc).

What price humanity?

Would you say the same if it were a child and not a dog? I wouldn't!

Sorry, this isn't AIBU and perhaps my language is unacceptable here, but I find that view unnecessarily selfish and harsh. Too much dealings with harmed dogs and uncaring humans, perhaps.

oh val :(. a few years ago i saw a GSD hit by a car outside my house. s/he was fine, just a little dazed, but was witnessed by myself and dd's. i just froze. but that was a big dog on a quiet street. this was a tiny dog, who could've just slipped under the wheels so easily iyswim. i know size doesnt always matter, but she was just a little jack. am glad we found her owner.

also a few months back, on the way home from brownies, dd's and myself came across a cat that had been hit by a car. it was already dead, but myself, a young lad and another lady said we couldnt leave her in the road, so moved her carefully to the side, and knocked on doors to find its owners. we found them :( was very upsetting.

Val, you've been amazingly supportive to me in the past (when it was thought my collie might have bloat - she didn't) but I have to disagree. Not everyone can or will help an animal in distress, and, sadly, not everyone can or will help a child in distress, either. Yes, we should, and I do, where I can, but my financial/emotional/practical resources are limited.

As for "what price humanity" - are we not the most violent species on the planet? And yet, also (possibly) the most compassionate.

I think you can expect everyone who is able to help to do so OldLady (oh dammit that sounds ruder than my language!). I agree though that not everyone will, damn the beggars.

Agreed too that we are the most violent species on the planet but I've yet to be convinced that we're the most compassionate.

I too do what I can and my resources are limited too. I wish I could do more. I guess I try to make up for not being able to take in all the unwanted dogs in the world, not being a vet (or having the courage to be one), not having the resources to buy a huge plot of land and run rescue kennels or whatever by speaking out (and being an opinionated SOB) like I do.

Speaking of which, I've just posted on AIBU where someone is asking about leaving a dog for a long day, warning everyone NOT to leave their dog in their garden because of the huge amount of dog thefts which go on nowdays.

If we all do little things like that, which cost nothing, we are doing our bit.

Maybe reversing like a madwoman down the A10 and sitting in the middle of it to try and save a dog is going a bit further, as was stopping the car in the middle of the night on the A10 in Herts to move a hedgehog out of the road, but hey ho, I'm too old and in too deep to change now! :)

LOL, the last dog I found was on the road, on a bend, in the dark... I actually thought she was a sheep till I got close enough to make her out, and, yes, I parked stopped my car in the middle of the road with the hazards on so I could catch the beggar, and took her to the vet in the morning, and looked after her till she was rehomed... but I was lucky that I had the resources to do that.

Ach, dunno what I'm saying really, except that I really admire your passion and committment.

If I saw a dog wondering around on its own, I would have to help it.

I did find a little jack russel wondering around on a busy road with no collar on earlier this year. I carried him to the vets but he wasn't microchipped. I took him to the local shops to see if they recognised him but they didn't. So I took him home and phoned the dog warden and made some posters to put up to say I had found him.

Our dog was a rescue who was found thin and running round a housing estate not far from my street. It took a very helpful and kind man ages to catch him as he wouldn't go near anybody. His microchip info was for Liverpool (we are in the Midlands!) and all out of date hence posters were put up; I saw one and adopted him. But this guy spent hours trying to get close to Max, coaxing him with food etc. Good chap.
Oddly when Max escaped from the garden a while after we adopted him, he made a beeline for the same estate and we were contacted by the same man who recognised him it just makes me think that he had lived there somewhere... but why did nobody claim him! He's such a sweet dog. People are arse.

I think some people are scared and others just don't care

I found a Staffy not long ago. If some one didn't grab her she would either have gotten run over herself, caused a traffic accident (cars were swerving to avoid her) or got a child hit because a few idiot parents were pushing their children into the road out of the way of the scary, child eating dog . Presumably they thought speeding traffic was a lesser danger than a dog who was wagging it's tail, desperate for attention and had showed no signs of aggression

That school run is a busy one. Literally hundreds of people must have passed her before I got hold of her, including lots of workmen. It's a wonder there wasn't an accident.

We found a huge (very unfriendly)Rottie wandering along the road in the dark,DH got out to find its tag and it went for him ! He got back in car pretty sharpish.I drove along behind it with hazard lights.It went into some gardens and we shouted to a man we saw that it was dangerous for it to be in the road.
He shouted back its not his and that the owner always let it out to wander,also dont go near it as it bites
I was stunned that someone would let a dog wander the streets, especially such a nervous aggressive one.Man didnt know owner(i wanted a word )said it just appears from the flats twice a day.

Have herded an escaped cow going for a jog on an A road (never knew they could move that fast actually), it was in a dip in the road and had visions of a car/cow collision at 60mph. Fortunately police and farmer weren't too far behind.

PIL found a collie near their house on a busy ringroad. The put up adverts, contacted local vets, informed the RSPCA and put an advert in the local press and no response. Wasn't chipped, collar had no contact details. Was a lovely dog, obviously had been well looked after, but too lively for the PILs to keep, plus he kept herding the grandchildren a bit too aggressively.

er.. the cow wasn't going at 60mph, obviously, even if it was running!

Country living person here, at least once a year I play host to a small herd of bullocks which have escaped from the neighbouring field, and end up in my garden. Once it was a pair of Clydesdale mares.

DS1 came across sheep heading for the main road one night. He rushed to a neighbour who had boasted proudly that his collie was a natural herder, only for neighbour to blushingly admit that the dog was scared of the dark...