To Do

[Dale Pea]

If you are driveing down the road and see a beagle, do you stop and pick it up? What if don't have your dog box? What if you do, (have your box) but you have your dogs in it, do you put this strange dog in with your dogs, knowing that this dog may have fleas, mange or whatever?

What if the dog has no collar? Do you still pick it up and look for ads in the paper, or take it to the pound?

Just wondering, I saw a beagle on the highway, tried to pick it up but wouldn't come and I didn't try to chase him. He did not have any collars on. Beside that I was in the wifes car.

[fastnfuriouskennel]

Id say thats why it was there. It probably wont run, or might be hard to catch.

[Emery]

I have mixed feelings about this... I once drove by a beagle with a collar on a 4 lane hwy. When I retured later that evening, it was dead on the side of the road. I stopped and took the collar off the dog and called the owner and returned the collar. He said the dog went missing about 4 weeks earlier and was very hard to catch anyway.

I also saw a beagle when I was out hunting in a conservation area. He was in terrible shape, all scabbed up and pretty skinny. I took him home and spent some money fixing him up and cleaning him up. No response to anyone losing a dog... So, I figured that after about a month and a half, he would probably listen to me since I had been feeding him. So, I took him out. I was really encouraged when he opened shortly after I released the dogs. The trouble was, he never shut up. He would bark when running to another dog or just bark for the sake of barking. This is obvious to me why he was left in the woods to fend for himself. Since I didn't have any responses on the missing dog, I ended up taking him out for his last journey. I hated to do it, he was a nice dog, just not a good rabbit dog.

So, I guess the decision is up to you. That being said, I surely would be grateful to anyone that called me and found my dog.

Emery

[kybriarbuster]

we have a lot of dog traders in my area and they dump a lot of dogs with no collars. i try to catch them cause it may be one somebody has lost and cant find. my nameplates say im lost then my cell and home phone. havent lost one in a few years but if i do i hope someone will pick it up and give me a call. sam

[Gang]

I was running behind a girls softball field one afternoon while games were going on. I had an older female and a few younger dogs and had a split. The old girl left out on one and the youngins went off down in the bottoms on the other one. I figured the best thing was to go with the pack and leave her up on the flat soloing. About 30 to 40 minutes later the bunny took the pack back up on the flat but the old one was silent. I figured she would come in to the pack but she didn't. I called and called but nothing so I bumped her just a bit to get her attention and try to locate her, still nothing. Well about 30 minutes later we holed the bunny so I caught up the dogs and headed for the truck calling all the way, still nothing. When I got into the parking lot I see a fellow loading up my hound so I hastily go to catch him. He says she wandered up to the ball fields which she probably did with all the ruckus and was going home to call me. He says she keeps jumping and trying to take off running, I say yes she's trying to come find me everytime I bump her and your keeping her from it. Needless to say I dont pick anyones hound up anywhere cause they might be around close somewhere looking for it.

[padeerhunter]

After just having one run off for a few days and knowing how it feels and wondering all the time about her, I would pick a dog up (and put it up front with me) and try to find its owner--do just like we did, put some fliers out in the area, call the SPCA, vets in the area, take a ad out in the paper. If no one claimed and it turned out not to be a hunter, I would see if I could give it away for a pet and then finally if no one took it, take it to the SPCA

Doug

[carn]

i pick-up a hound on a four lane highway with no collar she was hit two years later she won the grandnational