No Owner

We had a big pit bull run into the store today sans leash, collar or owner.

He was big and gorgeous. Obviously well taken care of.

But like....no owner in sight. 

Thankfully we managed to catch him--he was super friendly--and get a temporarily leash on him while we looked around to see if anyone in the parking lot was missing their dog...but we didn't see anything obvious.

And without a collar with tags we couldn't exactly call the owner.

So we took him over to our vet to see if he had a microchip which good news he did! Bad news...it wasn't registered in our vet's system...so we still had no idea who the owner was.

We ended up placing the dog temporarily in one of the kennels in the vet's half of the store while the manager said he would call the shelter to come pick up the dog.

I don't know if he ever did.

But I did hear from the vet people that they did end up finding the owner, as they noticed a guy searching around the parking lot a little bit later, cursing and looking a bit frantic and asked him if he was missing his dog.

Which he was.

Apparently the dog was in the back of the pick up truck...the cab part?? and busted out of the back of it to come into the store searching for his owner. 

*shakes head*

I'm glad we were able to reunite them together.

But hopefully the dude learns to put a collar with id on his dog from here on out because otherwise there was a good chance he wouldn't have seen him again.

And it's very lucky the dog chose to run into the store as we're on the corner of a pretty busy street. :S :S It wouldn't have been good if the dog had run into the middle of that road. :S

-Sarnic Dirchi