What a nice caring person you are! Happy Holidays! On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 09:14:35 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Please, please, please put an identifying tag WITH YOUR PHONE NUMBER > on it on > your dog - especially if she/he is big and likes to roam. A license > tag is > USELESS on the weekends, because the city offices are closed. > > 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. But the vet's office and the > city > pound are closed on Saturday. I wanted so much to contact his owner. > But I > would have had to wait until Monday to get the information, so I let > him go > with the hope that he lived nearby and would find his way home > safely. > > 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. > > Another stray I took in (Great Dane mix, big friendly female) > actually > belonged to a neighbor just a few blocks away. I flyered the > neighborhood and > reported the animal to the pound and the Humane Society, with no > response; it > was pure chance that the neighbor happened to see his dog in our > yard one > afternoon and claim her. > > Another stray followed me home one time as I was out for a walk (a > big > friendly German Shepherd male.) He had an assortment of tags but no > local > identification. Again, it was on a Sunday, so I kept him over night > and > called the pound on Monday. His owner was distraught because she did > not know > what had happened to him. If she'd had her phone number on his tags, > I could > have saved her a lot of anxiety. > > It breaks my heart to see dogs running loose and vulnerable to theft > and > injury. Please take this simple step to help protect your pet! > > -- Holle Brian > Bancroft > _______________________________________ > > 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 > > _______________________________________
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