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The HOA got involved in finding the owner of the dog (who is still nameless, btw) we cared for all day. They sent out a blast to everyone that netted a neighbor of the owner who gave an address. I went by and left a note for them to call. Presumably when they returned from work and found their dog missing they figured it out and called.
The conversation did not go well. The guy was not particularly appreciative of my efforts nor chagrined at having lost control of his dog. I asked if he intended to chip and tag the dog and he took offense and started asking, pretty aggressively, where I lived. I didn't tell him for obvious reasons but continued to try to get him to admit that he needed to make sure the dog could be identified if this happened again. He said it had never happened before (which I know from his neighbor not to be true) and that the dog did not, therefore, need to be chipped. I also pointed out that he had left the dog out in 30 degree weather which he denied saying that he had left the door to the house open.
I didn't handle the conversation very well but really was and am concerned for the dog.
The guy's response was to accuse me of kidnapping the dog and that if I didn't give him my address he'd call the sheriff and report me.
Which he did.
Wanting to avoid a further confrontation with the dog's owner, I connected with the neighbor across the street who originally found the dog and asked her to return him. She agreed and headed off down the street. And my phone rang. The Williamson County sheriff.
We talked through the entire situation and his final recommendation without saying I'd done anything wrong was that if I find a dog again I should call animal control and turn the dog over to them.
So, that was my day. For some reason the story sounds similar to one I've heard recently.
The conversation did not go well. The guy was not particularly appreciative of my efforts nor chagrined at having lost control of his dog. I asked if he intended to chip and tag the dog and he took offense and started asking, pretty aggressively, where I lived. I didn't tell him for obvious reasons but continued to try to get him to admit that he needed to make sure the dog could be identified if this happened again. He said it had never happened before (which I know from his neighbor not to be true) and that the dog did not, therefore, need to be chipped. I also pointed out that he had left the dog out in 30 degree weather which he denied saying that he had left the door to the house open.
I didn't handle the conversation very well but really was and am concerned for the dog.
The guy's response was to accuse me of kidnapping the dog and that if I didn't give him my address he'd call the sheriff and report me.
Which he did.
Wanting to avoid a further confrontation with the dog's owner, I connected with the neighbor across the street who originally found the dog and asked her to return him. She agreed and headed off down the street. And my phone rang. The Williamson County sheriff.
We talked through the entire situation and his final recommendation without saying I'd done anything wrong was that if I find a dog again I should call animal control and turn the dog over to them.
So, that was my day. For some reason the story sounds similar to one I've heard recently.
