Everyone say hello to Cowboy!
The last couple of days it has been so cold Joelle has not biked, so I have been driving her to work. On the ride home, we saw this chunker running down the street. Joelle saw him first and said “oh no” and I just said “Fuck. We have to go get him, don’t we?” And Joelle said “yes so I popped a u-turn and we chased him down. Corralled him, put him in the car, and he promptly peed all over my lap.
Drove around looking for frantic people for a bit then took him to the vet and got him scanned. His owner is in Scottsdale, so we have no idea how he got here, but the vet is contacting the owner and giving my information. Fortunately for Cowboy, he was rescued by two people with more dog crates than anyone not running a breeding operation needs, so he is safe and sound here until we can get him back to his people.
Scout211
Awwww. Hi Cowboy! 👋
You and Joelle are good people.
Suzanne
Thank the FSM for microchips!
scav
Little goof. Lucky goof!
Elizabelle
Cowboy is safe. Thank dog.
LOL re the dog crates. Be prepared.
Chief Oshkosh
I don’t know – the look on that dog’s face is that it’s all a big adventure. Oh boy! This is the 5th road trip of the year for me, and it’s only January! And the people you meet! So nice! :)
SteveinPHX
From some one whose missus has been volunteering at the Arizona Humane Society for years, we say THANK YOU!!
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
So cute!!!
You’re good people, Cole.
ETA I should read the comments first, so I don’t plagiarize y’all!
Dorothy A. Winsor
He’s in good hands
bbleh
Now THERE is Fate at work.
Good karma also, too.
Argiope
You all should probably just carry a bottle of that spray for pet accidents in the vehicle at all times. Cowboy may be the first canine hitchhiker in your new neck of the woods but I doubt he’ll be the last. Just keep the crate in the trunk, too, if it’s collapsible. And heck, maybe a bag of treats… best to be fully prepared.
Betty Cracker
Bless y’all for helping him!
WaterGirl
John, are you still doing the cat bleg tonight?
dexwood
@Chief Oshkosh: I think he looks tense & nervous. His eyes and tight snout. Plus, he pissed on Cole. A nervous reaction.
Elizabelle
And, if Cowboy’s owner(s) cannot be found …
satby
Truly my tribe you are.
I agree @dexwood
Martin
The last couple of days it has been so cold Joelle has not biked
Anne Laurie
Speaking of dogs… we could use an update on Thurston and Joelle’s two(?) pups… I don’t think you’ve even shared their *names* with us!
raven
@SteveinPHX: My dad lived in North Phoenix up by Bell road and, once he got a dog, he became obsessed and hung out at the Humane Society Thrift Store on Cave Creek. We buried him in the National Cemetery of Arizona with the ashes of his beloved Lab Molly with him!
HumboldtBlue
Nothing like being prepared. Youse done good.
Again.
TBone
He looks worried to me, mebbe that’s why he relieved himself. Good job rescuing him.
BruceJ
@Martin: it was 28 degrees F Tuesday morning here in Tucson. it was still 30 when I had to go to work. Aint riding my bike in that weather…
toine
Uber-mensch…
Joelle
Cowboy was a good boi!
SteveinPHX
@raven: Thank you for the story. Take care.
Westyny
One fortunate, freaked out dog.
jnfr
Lucky pup! Thanks to you both for being good humans.
Yutsano
And here I thought Cowboy was the new addition to the pack! He looks like good ol’ American mutt to me.
Anne Laurie
I suspect Cowboy is an Australian shepherd — people get Aussies because they’re ‘less hyper’ than their Border collie relatives, but that’s not always true!
karen marie
On Tuesday morning one of my neighbors asked to borrow a leash and collar because a dog (very pretty but no collar) followed her son home from work. She had plans to buy it a leash and collar, take it to the vet on Friday. Then I asked was she going to take it somewhere to have it scanned for a chip to return it to the owner. “Oh, Friday,” she says. She was going to just keep the dog – like “finders keepers.”
This morning I saw her and asked what she’d done about finding the dog’s owner. She screamed at me that she spent last night at the emergency room with her son who dropped something on his foot and she didn’t have time to do anything about the dog, that the dog was now at the shop where her son worked. I pointed out that she’d had the dog since Tuesday morning and her son didn’t have the medical emergency until late last night, so clearly she had no plan to find the dog’s owner. That made her really mad.
The owner is probably worried sick but my neighbor and her son don’t care. I can’t even imagine being such a bad person that I’d steal someone’s dog.
opiejeanne
You and Joelle are good people, as several other people have noted.
We had a cute little dog show up at our house, at a time when no one on our cul de sac had a dog. He was thirsty so we gave him some water and brought him inside, and looked at his tags. There was a phone number, called it and got a vet’s office in Tennessee. They looked up the dog by the number on his tags, told us his name and his owner’s phone number, but they did not answer their phone.
About then the doorbell rang and a neighbor asked if we had Sammy. They had relatives visiting from Tennessee, the dog got out, etc.
Paul in KY
So sweet of y’all. God bless Cowboy!
Sis
@karen marie: I agree completely! It’s one thing when you make an effort to track down the owner and are unsuccessful, but to make no effort at all is terrible.