Petey

Monday I forgot to mention that we had a visitor the Wednesday before. Elianna and Harley were outside and all of the sudden Harley started barking at something/someone outside the fence. I asked Elianna if someone was out there but she said "no." Strange so I went and looked. Lo and behold there was this dog laying outside the fence. Not sure whose dog it was or if it was nice or not, I went out the front door and around to the fence with a bowl of water. I guess I figured if it attacked me, I could throw the bowl at it. Brilliant, huh?! Anyway, he was a nice dog and I drug him inside the fence so he wouldn't run away before we could find his owners. He had a Home Again tag on, so I called the number only to find out that the address had never been registered. Not sure why someone would pay to have their dog chipped with a tracking device and not register an address. On to try #2. I called the vet on the rabies tag and got the number of the owner that way and found out the dog's name was Petey.

That was at 8:30 am. I did not get ahold of the owners until 11:30 am. The man said that they had just moved and the dog had gotten out probably the night before. So our plans got changed while we waited and waited and waited for the owner to come pick up Petey. They came around 3 pm. Poor Petey wanted to come inside so bad since it was ridiculously hot out but he looked a bit mangy and I prefer to not have fleas inside the house. Oh well. I would be glad someone took care of my dog if he ever ran away. Oh! That's right he did once and some nice people did take care of him. Only difference - I went right away to pick him up. Honestly, it wasn't a big deal that they didn't come right away, I just felt sorry for Petey having to be out in the hot hot weather. Poor Petey!

Elianna adored Petey and sang songs to him and talked to him and gave him bones (which he refused to eat) and talked about how she wanted him to stay at our house.  I kept reminding her that she has a dog every single day and she is welcome to do all of those things with him.  But like everything else, we always want what we can't have and take for granted those things we do have. Infested with fleas or not.