04-14-2023, 12:56 PM
Lucky Lucy
On March 31st I walked out the side door of our house and a wee bit of a dog ran up to me from behind our neighbor’s fence. It was soaking wet and shivering up a storm. I walked over and though the dog cowered when I approached it, I was able to grab a skinny broken leash and picked it up in my arms. It was soaking wet and shivering. We had thunderstorms the night before and it had heavy downpours of rain in the morning. It also got as low as 33 degrees overnight.
I brought it in our house and announced to my husband, “Look what I found”, can we keep it?”. We wrapped it in a towel and started to dry it off. We never even checked to see if it were a boy or girl, but I kept calling her “SHE” because of that pretty little face that was staring at me.
Our neighbors do not own a dog but we called one of them to see if they knew who the dog belonged to. He said that before he went to work, he saw two people walking past his house that looked like they were calling out for a pet. But that was already about 3 hours earlier.
My husband decided we would take “HER” in the car and drive around to see if we could locate the owners. But before we left, my husband got on the neighborhood FACEBOOK site and immediately saw a message about a LOST DOG! We got the owner’s address, grabbed the dog, and off we went. On the way, we passed several signs on trees and light posts that read “LOST DOG, LUCY. Very Skittish. Do not approach. Call this number:$%#@$%%”. So Lucy was a girl! I told you so!
Her owner was walking her late the evening before when a sudden sound made her take off. She was on one of those retractable leashes and as she ran off, the plastic “leash winder” bounced behind her making her run away even faster. Her owner tried chasing her, but Lucy ran and disappeared. That happened at 10 pm and I discovered her at 11:30 the following day. From her escape to our block, the retractable leash holder had been torn away.
It was a happy ending. Lucy’s owner was beside herself when she saw us. She only had Lucy since November when she adopted this rescue dog from a puppy factory. She told us that Lucy is really skittish and easily spooked, I cannot imagine what it was like for her to be outside in the thunderstorms the night before
It was such a good feeling to see the tears on the owner’s face when the two were reunited.
On March 31st I walked out the side door of our house and a wee bit of a dog ran up to me from behind our neighbor’s fence. It was soaking wet and shivering up a storm. I walked over and though the dog cowered when I approached it, I was able to grab a skinny broken leash and picked it up in my arms. It was soaking wet and shivering. We had thunderstorms the night before and it had heavy downpours of rain in the morning. It also got as low as 33 degrees overnight.
I brought it in our house and announced to my husband, “Look what I found”, can we keep it?”. We wrapped it in a towel and started to dry it off. We never even checked to see if it were a boy or girl, but I kept calling her “SHE” because of that pretty little face that was staring at me.
Our neighbors do not own a dog but we called one of them to see if they knew who the dog belonged to. He said that before he went to work, he saw two people walking past his house that looked like they were calling out for a pet. But that was already about 3 hours earlier.
My husband decided we would take “HER” in the car and drive around to see if we could locate the owners. But before we left, my husband got on the neighborhood FACEBOOK site and immediately saw a message about a LOST DOG! We got the owner’s address, grabbed the dog, and off we went. On the way, we passed several signs on trees and light posts that read “LOST DOG, LUCY. Very Skittish. Do not approach. Call this number:$%#@$%%”. So Lucy was a girl! I told you so!
Her owner was walking her late the evening before when a sudden sound made her take off. She was on one of those retractable leashes and as she ran off, the plastic “leash winder” bounced behind her making her run away even faster. Her owner tried chasing her, but Lucy ran and disappeared. That happened at 10 pm and I discovered her at 11:30 the following day. From her escape to our block, the retractable leash holder had been torn away.
It was a happy ending. Lucy’s owner was beside herself when she saw us. She only had Lucy since November when she adopted this rescue dog from a puppy factory. She told us that Lucy is really skittish and easily spooked, I cannot imagine what it was like for her to be outside in the thunderstorms the night before
It was such a good feeling to see the tears on the owner’s face when the two were reunited.
