Say hello to my little friend
Well this afternoon my wife saw three dogs running in traffic in front of our house. She panicked because one of the dogs was a Keeshond, the breed we own. She thought it was one of ours, until she almost ran over our boys while trying to get outside.
When she realized that the dog wasn’t ours, she still wanted to help the three dogs get out of the street, so she went and called to the dogs. The two other dogs ran away, while this girl ran right up to my wife. The other dogs were gone, but she wasn’t going anywhere. So, my wife brought her inside and got her warmed up. She called all of the local shelters and left our name and number in case the owners called looking for the animal.
When I got home, I decided that I would drive around and see if I could find anyone out looking for a dog in the surrounding neighborhoods. Well, no luck. I asked at a local restaurant, and then drove around in the rain with the windows down hoping to hear someone calling for their pooch. You see, if one of my boys had run away, I would look everywhere for them and I would me extremely sad. I figured the least I could do was to try to help the owners.
Well I had no luck, and when I came home and was checking her out, I noticed she had fleas. So out to the store I went and got flea killer for all three dogs, the cat and the carpet. Figure we’ll snuff this right out. Anyway, we’ll keep looking for her owners in the coming days, but if we don’t find them, I think we’ll have a new member of our family. She’s completely sweet, loves the girls, loves attention and is actually very well groomed. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to give her up, so hopefully we can help get her home… even though a little piece of me hopes we don’t 🙂
The really wierd thing in all of this is that Keeshonden are not a very common breed, so for one to show up on our doorstep like that is pretty amazing. I guess someone could have dropped her off on purpose, but I cannot imagine why. Don’t know what we are going to call her yet as every name we’ve tried seems to fall of deaf ears… We’re running out of all the dog names we know, hopefully we’ll get lucky and figure out her name. Anyway, I’ll keep you posted.
December 21, 2006 @ 6:47 am
Your wife and you are such suckers and she knew that right away. He choices were to keep running with the idiot boys who had her running around cars or to come over to your wife and get a warm place to sleep and a good meal. Not exactly a tough choice.
Of course, there is a very good reason I am not allowed to go to any of the pet stores on adoption day as I am just as big of a push over as you guys.
Sean—
December 21, 2006 @ 9:43 am
Heh. Well Jen said she would never get a Kees again (not because we dislike the breed, we LOVE the breed, just because of the hair) but she changed her tune after meeting this girl.
After an evening with her, I cannot imagine anyone voluntarily giving her up, so I imagine we’ll hear something today from her owners.
We’re suckers at shelters and pet stores too, that’s why we don’t go any more
December 21, 2006 @ 12:10 pm
Do you think just maybe her angels let her run with the two boys to protect her until she got to your house (her new home)? She fits right in with your family. Tony is jealous! (And no, we don’t need another Kees either).
December 21, 2006 @ 3:22 pm
Well thank you, that’s sweet
Updates so far is that we called a couple more places (to no avail) and took her to a place to find out that she is NOT microchipped.
So, so far, she’s a member of our family. We figured for sure that we would have heard something by now…