Reply #4: That is so cool!! Yay for you!! [View All]

[driver8]

My wife and I were driving down the street one night -- it was late, about 11:30. We saw a car stopped in the middle of the street and there was a group of teenage girls trying to coax a Golden Retriever into their car. They told us she was just wandering along the street and they didn't want her to get hit. My wife and I managed to get the dog to jump in my car -- there was a license tag but no name tag or phone number.

We took the dog home with us for the night and figured we would call in the morning and find out, based on the license tag, who the dog belonged to. Well, the next day was Sunday and we called and left a message. We figured we wouldn't hear back until Monday. We had planned on going hiking so we took the dog with us. She was great -- it was like she had been our dog for years! She led the way and would stop to make sure we were following and, she was just the sweetest girl. I told my wife, "If no one calls about her, we're keeping her!"

Well, when we got home we had a message on our machine from animal control. They had the owner's number. We called and eventually returned this sweet girl to her family. I guess she was an escape artist and belonged to the daughter of the family. The daughter was in Europe for the semester and would have been crushed if anything happened to her dog. I felt better after that...but I really wanted to keep her!!