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[Kalli]

Found 2 large dogs wandering a rural road 25 mins from my house. They were definitely NOT car savvy - walked right out in front my truck!

Took several tries but I got them into my vehicle. Spent over 2 hours stopping at homes up and down the road asking about their owners...no one I spoke with had ever seen them before.

Can't keep them as I already have 3 dogs, a cat and a horse. Right now they're in my barn for the night. I submitted a Lost and Found ad online to our local paper. Called the police and they said take 'em to the local SPCA but it's a kill shelter so.....

Called and left a message at the local animal rescue but they're always full.

Any ideas?? Someone said to just drop them back off where I found them but I think there's a good chance 1 or both will get hit by a car.

-Kalli

[catlvr]

Being humanely put down is better than lying by the side of the road suffering from the injuries of a car hit or more than one.

[Irshgrl31201]

I would definitely make an announcement on social media too. If you have FB take a picture of the dogs and list on your FB when they were found and the date and time. Most likely you have lots of local friends on your FB who will share this picture. I know my friends pass that along. Also, they may be microchipped so make sure the vets check that.

I myself couldn't drop them off where you found them (that is mean) or at the shelter. I would try to hold on to them until you could find someone who could take them in at least temporarily.

I would also make up ads to put on Craigslist under lost and found. Lots of people list missing animals they have found there. I would look there first if I had a pet missing. DOn't forget to have the vet or SPCA check for a chip though. That could answer all of you problems right there. I have all my pets microchipped.

[Kachina624]

If you're in a rural area, someone may have dropped them there. I don't see you have a choice except for animal control, unless you know someone who wants them.

[I like celery]

Aww, this breaks my heart. I know you mentioned it was a rural road, but are there places along the way that you could post signs with the dogs pics on them, and your contact info? Could you possibly keep them for a week or two, while waiting for any calls? If you don't hear from anyone, could you possibly try to find a home for them? I know that's A LOT to do (and you've probably already thought about it). Are there any other animal rescue shelters within a hour away or so that you might be able to see if they could take the dogs?

You are a great person for what you are already doing for the dogs - bless you!

[hckynut]

What I would do is put out a humane trap to catch them. Most areas have "no kill shelters" somewhere close to where one lives. My wife is a board member with the Boxer Rescue Organization that covers 5 states.

Kalli, I understand you situation but it is animal lovers like yourself that get into this situations and just plain don't know what to do. We would trap them and then consider our next step from there.

If nothing can be done I would rather have them humanely put down than possibly get hit by a motor vehicle and possibly suffer a slow and painful death.

Hope all is well with you are you BIG animals. We just trapped a feral last Thursday and took her in to have her spayed. Fortunately the timing was right as they told us she was in heat and we would have had a whole 'nother caboodle of kittens to raise and adopt out. We put her back out yesterday and she is going just fine. Now we gotta catch the feral male that has been running around here.

[elated]

Someone probably dropped the dogs off and will not claim them. I would see if I could find a rescue organization that might be able to take them. What are the breeds of the dogs? Don't take them back to the road and leave them--that would be cruel. They would get killed. Do you know anyone that would take the dogs? I think the owner will not come forward because they are cruel and inhumane. It is so sad that our society think that animals are disposable. I always say what comes around goes around. Thank you for being a kind and caring person--there are not many of you left in this world. As my cousin would say, there are so many despicable people. Please let us know what happens.

[Kalli]

There was no way I was going to drop them back off where I found them.

Did a lot of work today and thanks to everyone here for your suggestions. After lots of phone calls, 2 separate people posting on FB, posting an online ad, one of the people I called did a little investigating of her own, found out where they belong and they are back home tonight!!! They had come a small distance and were not from the road where I found them so that's why no one had known them when I went knocking door to door. Sometimes parallel roads in rural areas are quite a distance away and that was the case here.

I'm so happy! And I'm pleased because my local animal rescue organization offered to keep them in a pen in a heated building tonight if their owners weren't found. I was worried about the shorter hair dog being uncomfortable in my barn for a second night.

Sigh. So happy they're home!

-Kalli

BTW..Hckynut, one was a boxer. I almost posted on here to ask if your wife knew of any PA boxer rescues! Thankfully they're in their warm home tonight. They are definitely a pair and it would've been sad to separate them.

[muttmom]

Kalli,

Good news. I was almost afraid to read further into the thread.

[maryebrown_1]

On 3/16/2014 Kalli said:

There was no way I was going to drop them back off where I found them.

Did a lot of work today and thanks to everyone here for your suggestions. After lots of phone calls, 2 separate people posting on FB, posting an online ad, one of the people I called did a little investigating of her own, found out where they belong and they are back home tonight!!! They had come a small distance and were not from the road where I found them so that's why no one had known them when I went knocking door to door. Sometimes parallel roads in rural areas are quite a distance away and that was the case here.

I'm so happy! And I'm pleased because my local animal rescue organization offered to keep them in a pen in a heated building tonight if their owners weren't found. I was worried about the shorter hair dog being uncomfortable in my barn for a second night.

Sigh. So happy they're home!

-Kalli

BTW..Hckynut, one was a boxer. I almost posted on here to ask if your wife knew of any PA boxer rescues! Thankfully they're in their warm home tonight. They are definitely a pair and it would've been sad to separate them.

Bless your heart! I'm in AWE at what you did for them!

They, and YOU, will sleep well tonight!