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Originally Posted by Native_Son
All you pet owners should make sure your name and number is on your dog's collar!
Every pet store has the $5 make-a-tag machine these days...
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That is true and I do that with all my pets. But you all will love this story. To make it short, about 20 years ago I raised shelties and one of the kids did not close the gate one evening . . . and one of the shelties ran off during a storm (she was afraid of lightning and panicked). Teams of friends/neighbors searched for her for days. She had several tags on . . . her name, our address, our phone number . . . license tags . . . even a tag w/ vet info, contact, etc. For two weeks we put up posters, called every possible place (vet's offices, animal shelter, humane society, etc). Two weeks and one day to the time she was lost, I decided to drive out to the lake - one particular area no one had searched as it was over 3 miles away, and an upscale neighborhood that would have folks in it who would have definitely called us had they found our girl.
And there, walking down the street w/ two women in their 60s was my dog.
Yep. On a brand new leash. Attached to the collar she had always worn . . . w/ all her tags on it.
I jumped out of the car and was LIVID. Asked why they had not called me or driven the dog back to my house, for that matter - contacted me somehow!
And you know what they said? Ohhhh . . . she had tags on with her name? We just never noticed.
Yeah. Right. They just liked my dog. And if I had not happened at that very moment to drive there . . . I guess I never would have gotten her back.
You just never know what some folks are capable of doing - (or not doing).
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