Twas a misty night along a dark country lane, late one night
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and the hound bounded towards me....lol
got him in my car, took him home
no collar, no lead, and as it turned out, no microchip
rang the dog warden, who collected him within the hour, he was put on the council doggy stray website
collected by the owners who lived 20 miles away and had let him out the car
dogs deserve better, if i hadnt had our two (then) id have kept him, he was bootiful
Spotty
got him in my car, took him home
no collar, no lead, and as it turned out, no microchip
rang the dog warden, who collected him within the hour, he was put on the council doggy stray website
collected by the owners who lived 20 miles away and had let him out the car
dogs deserve better, if i hadnt had our two (then) id have kept him, he was bootiful
Spotty
Well done, you never know what might have happened.
We had one like this a year or two ago. Quiet walk along the toepath, very nice doggy appears, sort of a GS collie cross. Swmbo makes a fuss of him expecting the owner to appear. Noone did. Dog now follows us our entire walk which consisted in the end of a mile one way and then back again as said dog followed us. No lead so when we met another dog we had to hang onto his collar and whilst he wasn't much trouble we got a few funny looks - look he's not ours ok!
Anyway asked around at a few houses and the pub, noone knows him. He's as good as gold, does as he's told sits stays, etc.
In the end we call the dog warden who came and fetched him - he trotted away quite happily on a lead.
We checked a couple of days later as we had already decided to keep him if he wasn't claimed but he'd been picked up the same day as he had a chip. Local ish family further up the canal from whom he had just wandered off.
We had one like this a year or two ago. Quiet walk along the toepath, very nice doggy appears, sort of a GS collie cross. Swmbo makes a fuss of him expecting the owner to appear. Noone did. Dog now follows us our entire walk which consisted in the end of a mile one way and then back again as said dog followed us. No lead so when we met another dog we had to hang onto his collar and whilst he wasn't much trouble we got a few funny looks - look he's not ours ok!
Anyway asked around at a few houses and the pub, noone knows him. He's as good as gold, does as he's told sits stays, etc.
In the end we call the dog warden who came and fetched him - he trotted away quite happily on a lead.
We checked a couple of days later as we had already decided to keep him if he wasn't claimed but he'd been picked up the same day as he had a chip. Local ish family further up the canal from whom he had just wandered off.
then there was our trip to Wales......
we stopped off in Bala for a break, opposite the car park was a large play area with swings, etc and a border collie lying in the middle on its own, my missus just HAD to go over and speak to him, the dog rolled over, belly rub....
it had no collar and a busy road ran between the grassy area and the nearest houses
eventually we attached a camera strap round the dogs neck then the owner appeared, spoke welsh to the dog, told us to get the lead off the dog as it was a working dog not used to collars
still, if we hadnt done it my wife would spent the rest of her days wondering
we stopped off in Bala for a break, opposite the car park was a large play area with swings, etc and a border collie lying in the middle on its own, my missus just HAD to go over and speak to him, the dog rolled over, belly rub....
it had no collar and a busy road ran between the grassy area and the nearest houses
eventually we attached a camera strap round the dogs neck then the owner appeared, spoke welsh to the dog, told us to get the lead off the dog as it was a working dog not used to collars
still, if we hadnt done it my wife would spent the rest of her days wondering
Had a similar thing happen to us in the spring. Driving along the A1198 from Royston to the A14 one Sunday evening, the moderate traffic suddenly came to a halt. As we got to the front of the queue we saw a rather handsome GSD walking up and down on the road. People were winding down their windows, fussing him and then driving off 
Luckily we had a lead in the car, so managed to get him to safety at a nearby farm.
Luckily we had a lead in the car, so managed to get him to safety at a nearby farm.
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