Roxy The Lost Dog

I have just called her people's number again.  They are still not taking calls.  Philip and I already agreed that this girl is not going to the pound, no matter what.  I am going to go call Animal Control to see if they can give us the address of Roxy's people or if they can go themselves to knock and notify that we have her.  We won't be giving her up to the dog catchers though.  If her people left for vacation, putting her in the care of friends, we won't be likely to find out who they are.  If we let Roxy go to the pound to await claiming by her people, then they'll have to pay money to get her back, Philip says.

If we were in their place we'd be really bummed.  But the main thing is to not let this old dog get jailed.  So we'll do everything we can to get her back to her people, without letting her be put away and scared.

And if we don't ever find them?  Then she'll have to pitch her fortunes with us.  Because we already think she's a pretty awesome dog. 

Here's what we know about her:

Her name is Roxy.  Her people are Matt and Jen.  She has the eyes of a pug, the nose of a boxer, and the body of a pit.  She's probably some kind of mix.  She's tan with white on her barrel chest and on her paws.  She's got very long nails.  She's been well fed and cared for.  She has her rabies shots.  She's had puppies at some point.  She has lots of grey around her muzzle.  She seems to have difficulty going up and down stairs.  Her tail is docked.*  She can't get up on the beds (this is good, actually, or Chick would be terribly jealous).  She doesn't bark much.  She really couldn't care less if a parade of cats walks by.  We think she might be kind of old.  She is not aggressive or dominant or whiny or uptight.  She's mellow and sweet and though she does seem a little worried (what lost dog wouldn't be?) she settled right down for the night.

Now, onto the business at hand.  Wish Roxy luck!

I hope we find her people though because we really don't need another dog right now, especially since our own life situation is full of questions and should we have to find a rental at any time, two dogs are much harder and more expensive to house than one. 



*By the way, I think tail docking is evil.  I've said it before and my opinion continues strongly.  A tail is expressive and when you reduce it to just a stump it's like cutting off an Italian person's arms- no more expressive gesticulating.  Now, if a dog is born without a tail, this is another matter.  What can you do about nature not providing you with your own conversational baton?