> Yesterday was the third or fourth time I've been faced with a > difficult > decision about what to do with a stray dog that wandered into > my yard. It was > a Great Dane mix, a big friendly male. He had a collar with a > rabies tag and > a Minneapolis pet license number on it.
[TB] Given that the dog has tags, he probably has a home. Maybe even an affordable home. He probably even knows where that home is and would be back there after he finished his Saturday afternoon stroll and dinner time approached. See, dogs get it. They aren't out asking for handouts. They aren't making unreasonable demands of the public. They do their own thing, they're happy. > The last time I took in a stray (Great Dane mix, big friendly > male) and tried > to find its owner, the animal terrified my pets and wrecked > my house. I never > was able to locate his owner - apparently the dog was > abandoned; I ended up > holding him for several weeks until a pet rescue organization > found a home for him. [TB] Maybe he wanted to go home. Was it dinner time? He was trying to find his way out of a place he had been trapped. Given a chance the dog would have probably gone home. He would have done that even without dog being included as a language on the LRT ticket dispensing machine. Likely he would have walked, if he was in a hurry he might even have run. Never, never try to outsmart a dog. They do a darn good job of taking care of themselves. Terrell Brown Loring Park Terrell at terrellbrown dot org _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
