Pokey Little Puppy

A friend recently came over to pick up a house key and get the run down of taking care of Oscar while we were gone over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.  In her arms was a mini Schnauzer.  I asked if she'd gotten a dog.  She said it had ran right up to her when she got out of her car.

The three of us knocked on neighbor's doors to no avail.  No one knew of the dog or her owner.  As luck would have it, however, ES came across a neighbor who is involved in the local animal rescue organization.

The dog didn't have a chip, but she said she'd had a network of people she could get the word out to as well as calling the local shelters.

We were glad that the dog, who was very sweet, had a place to go that knew already had to care/keep dogs.  Both my friend JH and myself/ES didn't have a way to keep the dog at the current time.

However, the more ES and I thought about it, we liked the idea of a dog.  She was so sweet and small enough that our lack of fence could be remedied by living the house and taking lots of walks.  We seriously considered keeping her if the owner couldn't be found.

This story had a happy ending, however. The owner was found the next morning.  He'd let the dog out off leash and she'd taken off.  She was from a neighborhood over so she'd wandered quite a bit to get to our house.

Little Greta (as we found out her name was) has given us pause to thought.  Perhaps a dog is soon in our future....