Where, Oh Where, Are These Stray Dogs? Lost?

G’day, Mates! It was a sad day for Doggy Dundee. Three stray dogs in sight and, yet, only one found its way home to an owner as far as we know!

Driving southbound into Ashland on Hwy. 99 there was a yellow lab pup lookin’ to  be about 5-7 months old lopping northbound on the sidewalk.  Doggy Dundee pulled over at the first available driveway (never as close as you want ‘em), grabbed a leash, and ran up the street, but…no lab pup to be seen. That pup could have wandered into any of the driveways along that section and been sniffing in backyards, so Chase and I headed back to the car. We can only hope that stray dog didn’t become a full-fledged lost dog!

Heading home northbound a couple hours later, an Aussie (a mate!) literally stepped in front of our car and sat down in front of us as we drove  Talent Avenue.  I breaked the car as did the gent in an SUV driving southbound; I got outa the car, but the dog wouldn’t have me anywhere near ‘em and off he dashed. Since cars were piling up behind us, I jumped back in and circled ’round about to park. After a short wander of the neighborhood homes, turns out this Aussie was living in a home facing Talent Avenue and was just looking for his owner who’d been doing some repairs. The owner’s response? “He left the porch? Jeez, he’s never done that before.” (Right! ‘Far as you know, mate! And why don’t you have a gate on your porch is what we’re wonderin’?)

Then 11:15 p.m on our late walk, there’s an adult stray dog (Lab-Collie-X (best guess), sniffing some fencing on Wagner Creek Road near Tark’s Market.  Tried to befriend this one, but she sped  ”off-like-a-light” across the street, the market’s parking lot, and down a dark alley northbound. Hoped she was racing home in a panic, but 10 minutes later spotted her fast-paced sihouette disappearing up Wagner Creek Road far west of us; must have circled the blocks. We heard the barks of outdoor,neighborhood dogs starting to set up protests for a long time after that, so this pooch wasn’t known in the area.

Question for me is (always) never where’s the dog, but where the heck is the owner that the stray dog is out wandering!