My hubby and I had been for a night out with friends, I was the designated driver so didn't drink. We dropped our friend at her house around 2am, and proceeded to make our way home. The road that we take home has a 55mph speed limit, most people fluctuate between 55 and 60 - as you do. We were 10 minutes from home, when out of the corner of my eye I saw something walking nonchalantly into the road. I realised that it was a dog, slowed down, swerved, and he walked right behind our car. I travelled for another 4 minutes or so, and had to turn around to find the dog. He walked toward a wooded area, my husband said he was probably 'walking home', across a highway??? I knew that it would play on my mind if I didn't at least try to find the dog, it must have been a little confused to be walking across the road like that with cars speeding past.
Car turned around, we headed in the direction that the dog went. We passed 5 or 6 Deer, happily chewing away on grass. Hubby said "The dog obviously didn't pass here, the Deer would have run away". So we backtracked a little, and I headed to a small industrial park. Hubby said that the dog wouldn't go into a brightly lit park, he was probably looking for shelter if he was lost...
I thought otherwise, and thought if he was as confused as I thought he was, he might have thought the lights were houses. We circled the park, and were just on or way out, when we spotted him. An old grey faced Beagle. We got out of the car, crouched down and called him over. He was a little nervous at first, but jumped into my drivers seat as the door was open- he was obviously used to car travel! Hubby put him into the back of our car, and we were headed home to call the Humane Society, maybe he was microchipped and someone was missing him?
Just as we turned the car around a Police Car came cruising by - probably wondered what we were up to at 2:30am in an industrial area? We told him what happened and he took charge of the dog.
When we looked closer, the dog was pretty chunky around the shoulders, in fact, he was so fat that we thought he had a tumour, until we realised that it was both sides!
The dog was very sweet, very friendly, and just looked relieved to be with people.
He is now in the Humane Society. Nobody has claimed him. He isn't microchipped. I put out an advert on Craigslist, saying where we found the dog, a brief description, what time etc... but nobody appears to be looking for him.
It is heartbreaking to think that maybe someone just got bored of him, he is an older dog, grey, overweight, and probably 'lost his appeal'.
It breaks my heart to see this going on. He probably devoted his entire life doting on a family, loving them, missing them, being pleased to see them when they came home, and would have defended them if need be. And this is the treatment that he gets..
We have 2 cats and 2 dogs. If we didn't, I would have taken him in to live out the last few years of his life happily.
The Humane Society predicted him to be around 10 years old. So, in dog years that is around 70. Who would do such a cruel, heartless thing?
I am praying that he finds a loving family soon. We did what we could to help him, I hope that it was enough?....
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