UPDATE! Found Dog in the Mountains :(
UPDATE!
I posted it out on my wordpress blog.
Thanks for all of your input, advice, and support. At one point, we were so worried that something had happened to the owner that we considered calling the police.
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ABOVE:could hardly hold her eyes open all the way home.
Mark and I were in the mountains and a yellow lab came running toward us. We were alone in the middle of nowhere. She was wet (obviously had been through the river), panting hard, looked scared to death, and has a bit of a cough. She has an updated license number and a rabies tag with vet number. Our cell phone couldn't call out until we were off the mountain, but the town she is licensed in is super far from where we were and even further from we live. When we drove back toward the small mountain town (40 minutes away) we stopped and asked people we saw camping and found nothing.
Obviously somebody loves this gal or she wouldn't have been updated. I'm sure she wasn't dumped with her license and vet tags still on.
Well, we went ahead and drove her the two extra hours back to our home. She is very well trained and sweet as can be. Due to her cough we have her sleeping in the shop with a heater and a big blankie--we don't want to expose our dog to anything. I hope we did the right thing. We called the vet and emailed them and left messages. If the dog's family was camping or hiking, they probably aren't back home yet.
I don't really know how much big dogs eat, so we gave her two 1/2 cups of Giovanni's IAMs and a giant bowl of water.
She gulped the food down fast. Should we give her more?
Any dog people have advice or more ideas for how to help this gal? Even if her owners come to get her, she will be here with us for a while because they live three hours from here.
I posted it out on my wordpress blog.
Thanks for all of your input, advice, and support. At one point, we were so worried that something had happened to the owner that we considered calling the police.
Click here to read
ABOVE:could hardly hold her eyes open all the way home.
Mark and I were in the mountains and a yellow lab came running toward us. We were alone in the middle of nowhere. She was wet (obviously had been through the river), panting hard, looked scared to death, and has a bit of a cough. She has an updated license number and a rabies tag with vet number. Our cell phone couldn't call out until we were off the mountain, but the town she is licensed in is super far from where we were and even further from we live. When we drove back toward the small mountain town (40 minutes away) we stopped and asked people we saw camping and found nothing.
Obviously somebody loves this gal or she wouldn't have been updated. I'm sure she wasn't dumped with her license and vet tags still on.
Well, we went ahead and drove her the two extra hours back to our home. She is very well trained and sweet as can be. Due to her cough we have her sleeping in the shop with a heater and a big blankie--we don't want to expose our dog to anything. I hope we did the right thing. We called the vet and emailed them and left messages. If the dog's family was camping or hiking, they probably aren't back home yet.
I don't really know how much big dogs eat, so we gave her two 1/2 cups of Giovanni's IAMs and a giant bowl of water.
She gulped the food down fast. Should we give her more?
Any dog people have advice or more ideas for how to help this gal? Even if her owners come to get her, she will be here with us for a while because they live three hours from here.