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  • Plaidman makes a hard choice.

    So its early morning. A trucker comes in, with a tiny dog. I guess the corporation was recently hit with health ispection violations over dogs. Before we've been prett lenient over animails. But they've sent a big memo stating no animals. So I tell him, can't have the dog in the store.

    However, he just found it near the freeway. The dog has tags. Can I call the owner possible?

    Its 3:40 am. However, any dog owner would love to know where their dog is, right? So I take the cause. I call the owner.

    Dog Owner: ... fine. I'll see what I can do.

    La. La. La. La. La. 10 minutates later, nothing. I call her again. Now she screams at me. She has no-way of getting there. She lives in X town. I tell her legally I can't have the dog here. I'll have to call the police. Now she really screams at me. Another customer, (A taxi-driver!) offers to get the dog across our Portland, to her city, Milwaukie, for 20 bucks. A lost for the taxi owner, but a good deal right'? Not good enough for the owner of the dog. She has no money to give. Whatever.

    So I call the police. They can't help, but they do give me a few numbers to try. I try. Animal control. Animal shelter. All closed.

    Its been over an hour. I can't legally have the dog in the store. The owner doesn't really give a shit it seems. I have no rope or lease to tie the dog. I had to take the hard choice, and let the dog go. He runs off.

    Naturally, later this morning, the owner comes. Demanding her dog. I tell her I had to let him go. Much more screaming at how stupid retard ugly blah blah blah i am. Again., Legality, and she didn't seem to care when I call her. SHe again screams atm e for calling her at 4 in the morning. SHe leaves, driving off leaving tire tracks in my parking lot.

    Natuarlly I see the dog running by later.

    It does have a somewhat happy ending. The lady came through, sees her dog, gets him, and flips me off as she drives by.
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  • #2
    Wow. I could have some sympathy for her if she was calm and tried to help you with some options on the phone but instead, she was a bitch. While it sucks you had to let the dog loose, it sounds like you didn't really have other options and that you had done all you could.
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    • #3
      I must agree with what Shangri-laschild wrote.
      Unseen but seeing
      oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
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      • #4
        Damn, if I was the dog I'd run away from that raving lunatic of a bitch too.

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        • #5
          You didn't do anything wrong whatsoever.

          That said, it might pay to give a few animal rescues that are run through a foster network (try petfinder.com) a call and explain what happened, that you were shaken by having to release the dog and want to make sure you have an emergency option in the future, and ask if they have a volunteer who would be willing to be on-call only in the case of a true emergency like this where you would otherwise have to put a dog back out on the street in the middle of the night.

          It's vastly likely you'll never deal with this again, but it might still be a smart idea to have a number to call in case of a middle-of-the-night emergency like that. After all if the dog ran to your store once and hung out in the area for an extended period, he might be back someday.

          It gives me great peace of mind, being a person who tends to find strays, to know that my old foster coordinator wouldn't be the least surprised or upset to get a call like that from me at 3 AM with "Um, I just nearly hit a dachshund, and I caught it but now I have nothing I can do with it... halp?"
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          • #6
            Huh she could squeel tires driving out but couldn't come get the dog?

            If it was me I would have been there in my jammies and slippers to collect my baby.

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            • #7
              Totally! If my dog was missing I probably wouldn't even be ASLEEP at three in the morning, and I sure as heck would drive anywhere to pick her up if someone called me, I don't care what hour it is.

              She doesn't deserve to have a dog.
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              • #8
                Quoth Plaidman View Post
                It does have a somewhat happy ending. The lady came through, sees her dog, gets him, and flips me off as she drives by.
                THAT'S a happy ending?

                ...I betcha a dollar the dog will run away again.

                I'd have been there in a flash to get my fur-sibling.
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                • #9
                  She has no-way of getting there. She lives in X town.
                  So where'd she get the car from?

                  now me... hell if it was my kitty i would have done anything to get him. hell... and for the taxi driver?... she could have always said, "I don't have money to give him, will he accept some other form of payment?*"

                  * like baked goods, bottle of wine, even jsut drive me to the atm so i can get the money.


                  the one time my cat got out i just couldn't sleep until he came back in. little bugger waited until like 6am too.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Aethian View Post
                    Huh she could squeel tires driving out but couldn't come get the dog?

                    If it was me I would have been there in my jammies and slippers to collect my baby.
                    I don't think I'd have stopped for the slippers. The one time Belle got out of the fenced yard I was weeping by the time the neighbors (2 blocks up and a block over) brought her home.

                    In that woman's place, I'd have asked the cabbie to drive me to an ATM so I could give him pretty much everything I had.

                    What a bitch.

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                    • #11
                      I feel sorry for the dog having to have an owner like that.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth PepperElf View Post
                        So where'd she get the car from?

                        now me... hell if it was my kitty i would have done anything to get him. hell... and for the taxi driver?... she could have always said, "I don't have money to give him, will he accept some other form of payment?*"

                        * like baked goods, bottle of wine, even jsut drive me to the atm so i can get the money.
                        .
                        Yup. I would have spent my own money to get out to where my furkid was. Taxi drivers here will stop at an ATM if asked, yes there's a fairly high charge for waiting, but they will do it.

                        Yeah, if she didn't have any money, where'd the car come from? (I have trouble believing she was completely broke, probably just didn't want to pay...makes me wonder what happens with vet bills)
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                        • #13
                          I have a cat named Louis, he's really a strange cat: loves showering with me, but if a drop of water falls on him, he runs as fast as he can. I've had him for two years now and I love him like he's my baby (he kinda is).
                          Well anyways: I live in Belgium, in Ghent to be precise and we have a lot of turkish families in our neighbourhood. I live in the centre of the city and all the houses on our block have gardens connected together with brick walls. Practically every house has a cat (or several). Except for the turkish families, apparently they're afraid of cats!
                          One time, my sweet Louis was in the garden of a turkish lady. The lady was so afraid of him SHE CARRIED HIM THROUGH HER HOUSE and then put him on the street (busy street!!!). Now none of the cats in our little green island in the middle of the city can get to the street, so Louis was scared.... VERY scared! Luckily a student who lives somewhere nereby called the police and they brought him to a shelter.

                          This all happened on a Saturday during the day, when I wasn't home. I came home by dinnertime (I live with my sister and we came home at the same time), we called for Louis, but he didn't come. "We'll leave him outside" my sister said, it's not that bad, he does it sometimes. The next day: still no Louis, and I was getting worried. I asked all of our neighbours if they had seen him, everyone said no.... Even the lady who had put him on the street! I was soooooo shocked when I found out she had caused all of it! But I was so glad when I got him back that I forgot my revenge-taking-plans

                          This is him by the way:

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                          • #14
                            My dog has gotten out a few times. Usually when I have let her out in the front yard with me (back yard is fenced, front yard is not) and she sneaks off when I'm distracted for a second. She runs around the neighborhood for a while and then meanders on back home. One time proudly carrying a bag of pond [fish] food in her mouth.

                            The first time she escaped was just a few days after I brought her home. Apparently the gate had not latched fully, and she nudged it open. I was on my way home from practice in a city 45 minutes away when my boyfriend called to say he has just gotten home and the dog was out. With her being so new to me, I was very freaked that she would never find her way home again. (I had put a collar on her with an info tag, but had not had her microchipped yet.) Two of my teammates that I was carpooling with came home with me to help me comb the neighborhood at 11:00 at night, calling for my dog. We finally found her by accident, over a mile away, when one of my friends got lost herself and went farther afield than we had originally planned on. If someone had called me to say they had my dog, you can bet your sweet patootie I would have been over there to retrieve her in a heartbeat! In fact, I kept hoping and wishing someone WOULD call, but with it being so late at night, everyone was asleep.
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                            • #15
                              Erm.

                              How was the dog loose that far away from home anyway?

                              I bet her first thought on getting the call was "Damn I shoulda removed the collar when I threw hin out of the car"

                              The whole think stinks of deliberate abandonment of an unwanted pet to me.

                              Her next step? Remove collar this time, drive 15 miles to another freeway, throw dog, drive home.

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