I'm sorry but I just needed to talk about this somewhere with "animal people" who understand.
Today the s/o and I found a labX running around the alley. His name's Dozer, he's very sweet tempered but very muddy and he's been out for a little while although not too long because he wasn't too hungry.
He had a collar and a number so we called it and got a cellphone, which wasn't turned on and the message box was full. We looked up the name of the person in the phone book, called the number... no answer. It's Saturday. So we drive to the address in the book, turns out the people had just moved out and moved to another street near us, which makes sense rather than him wandering all the way down from the canyon. So we then attempted to track down the new address, which we finally got from a mail carrier who was delivering in the area. We called both the humane society and animal control and neither have a "lost" report. We don't have a yard or facilities for taking care of a dog really (we're not supposed to have one although I think in an emergency our landlords would understand), so we took him to the house, put him on the leash that's tied to the porch railing and made sure he had food and water. that was at 2 p.m. today. Now its 4:30, no one's answered or returned phonecalls and he's still there.
I didn't want to take him to the shelter because I think it's such a tramatic experience for an animal and I wanted to spare him that, but now I'm thinking I made a mistake. Anyway, I think if the owners haven't called us back by 8 or so we're going to go get the dog and bring him here. I feel terrible about leaving him there for so long with no one (seems like) even knowing he was gone.
On top of that, while Kanoe has stopped licking herself long enough for her hindquarters to heal... today I found a balding patch on her foreleg. She's never licked there before.
I'm about ready to cry. I feel like such a bad kitty mom and I've tried everything I can think of for Kanoe, short of putting her on heavy drugs. I feel bad for this doggie...
In general things are just going sort of wrong today. Sorry for ranting, but thank you for "listening."
Today the s/o and I found a labX running around the alley. His name's Dozer, he's very sweet tempered but very muddy and he's been out for a little while although not too long because he wasn't too hungry.
He had a collar and a number so we called it and got a cellphone, which wasn't turned on and the message box was full. We looked up the name of the person in the phone book, called the number... no answer. It's Saturday. So we drive to the address in the book, turns out the people had just moved out and moved to another street near us, which makes sense rather than him wandering all the way down from the canyon. So we then attempted to track down the new address, which we finally got from a mail carrier who was delivering in the area. We called both the humane society and animal control and neither have a "lost" report. We don't have a yard or facilities for taking care of a dog really (we're not supposed to have one although I think in an emergency our landlords would understand), so we took him to the house, put him on the leash that's tied to the porch railing and made sure he had food and water. that was at 2 p.m. today. Now its 4:30, no one's answered or returned phonecalls and he's still there.
I didn't want to take him to the shelter because I think it's such a tramatic experience for an animal and I wanted to spare him that, but now I'm thinking I made a mistake. Anyway, I think if the owners haven't called us back by 8 or so we're going to go get the dog and bring him here. I feel terrible about leaving him there for so long with no one (seems like) even knowing he was gone.
On top of that, while Kanoe has stopped licking herself long enough for her hindquarters to heal... today I found a balding patch on her foreleg. She's never licked there before.
I'm about ready to cry. I feel like such a bad kitty mom and I've tried everything I can think of for Kanoe, short of putting her on heavy drugs. I feel bad for this doggie...
In general things are just going sort of wrong today. Sorry for ranting, but thank you for "listening."
