Homeless Dog Owner & Stray Dog

G’Day Mates! There’s lots of kindness to go around from shelter staff and residents for a homeless dogs owner and his stray dog. Here’s an example:

It was dark at 9:45 on Monday night 8-24-09 when Chase and I met Reena, a female Doberman-X, roaming near Tark’s Market in Talent. Doggy Dundee was (drat!) without her spare leash as Reena and Chase started playing and chasing each other around in circles in the middle of the street. Sigh… Obviously, a stray dog night. “Alright, buddy, ready to follow us?” I asked the brown and black and very exuberant Dobie-X.

Reena did follow us - all the way unleashed. As with most lost dogs, she was a gem of a gentle stray. At home, while I tried calling her tag’s 503 area code phone number (“No calls are being taken at this phone number. Please try again later.”), Chase and Reena raced around the livingroom, and chowed down on kibble. Early a.m. appointments would leave me no time to take care of the stray dog in the morning, though, so I called the Talent Police Department, explaining I’d found a lost dog. They (more…)

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