Lost and Found Dogs: Steelheader.net- Steelhead, Salmon and trout fishing

This morning the wife and I get up, I make some coffee and she goes to let the dogs in. But there are no dogs.

Now, I know they were just outside because I was awakened at 0600 with Gozer's paws up on my bed. "Get down" I said, thinking he just wanted up on the bed. A second later he starts heaving. That "I'm gonna barf" sound all dog owners know. I tear out of bed and run downstairs with the dogs in tow, and manage to get them both out just before Gozer pukes in the flowerbed. Phew! At least he tried to warn me...

So I just leave them in the yard and go back to bed to sleep in a bit.

Now Colleen's saying the dogs are gone - but it's only been a couple hours. Apparently, someone (me) left the gate open. Years ago, we had a great shorthair named Jake. When he would escape the back yard, we'd find him sitting sadly on the front porch apparently thinking "I'm out, but I just want to be back in." Not these dogs.

So both of us take off looking and calling for the dogs. No trace. Because they're obnoxious pups, they tear each other's collars off in about a day, so we don't have ID tags on them. We're beginning to regret not getting the DOG ID chips inserted when we had the chance.

After I walk all around the neighborhood and through 2 nearby parks, I get a call from the wife saying "I just talked to animal control - they have 2 yellow labs that were picked up a couple hours ago."

So we meet the dog cop at a local grocery store parking lot and she turns over the dogs to us, with no citation, not even a lecture.

The story is that they were running down nearby Boise Avenue toward Broadway when an employee at the local veterinarian saw them while on her way to work. She piled them in her car, took them to work, then called animal control.

As you can see in the pic below, being a runaway takes it out of a guy.

Today I'm thankful for the kindness of strangers. Tomorrow we'll get ID chips put in the dogs.

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