How about this for a Christmas miracle?

[frash.exe]

And no this isn't a bullshit story like TRD's "I beat up 2 guys bad to save a girl while getting stabbed 800 times". An actual feel good Christmas story.

We found a stray dog yesterday walking around our neighborhood after going to a bakery. He didn't look rabid and he was being submissive to us so we took him in and immediately gave him a bath, as he was a little filthy. He didn't look malnourished, and he wasn't coughing or anything, but he also wasn't very hungry when we were trying to feed him. Seeing him not visibly sick but without an appetite as well was a little peculiar. Anyway we kept him separate from our other two dogs, because one of them is little and the other one is a little crazy when it comes to strangers. So he kept looking at them through the gate we used to cordon him to a different section of the house. The big girl, we'll just call squirrely because that's what I call her, kept growling at him and turning around to check on the baby (what we call the little girl). We contacted the police as well as any local missing pet blotter on social media we could find to see if he had an owner who was looking for him. Later in the day, we started wondering if we'd be taking in a third dog because nobody was reaching out to us to claim it. Eventually, someone living a few blocks away called last night saying they lost the dog in the morning after giving it a bath and letting it run around with a door open. They came to our house and greeted the dog, who immediately jumped right in their arms. That moment when he was reunited with his family was probably the high point of the day.

Yeah, sometimes it feels good to go out of your way and do a nice thing to help someone else.

[cookinbrak]

Multiple pie. If such a thing could happen.

[frash.exe]

Here are some pictures: This is the little guy we found:

 

 

And as a bonus, I decided to give you a stock photo of squirrely and the baby. You should be able to tell who's who.

 

[WilmyWood]

Reminds me of a story from years ago from an old roommate.  His dog, a Husky, disappeared after jumping the fence in the backyard.  This was about 2 weeks after we moved in to a new house.  He was gone for over a month so we figured we wouldn't be seeing him again even thought we searched and put up flyers everywhere (pre social media, craigslist, etc.).  

 

One random day, we got a call from our old neighbor about 15 miles across town.  He said he saw the dog sitting in front of the house we used to live in.  Apparently, it took him over a month, but he finally made it back to the old house we lived in for a couple years.  I guess he liked that house better.

 

Anyway, kudos for doing the right thing.  A lot of people would not have.

[PhillyB]

good poo

[Rise of The Hive]

Good stuff

[Jangler]

more like Christmas dinner...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PandaPancake]

I can always tell the dogs who have never been outside without supervision. They've made a break for it and are in dgaf mode.

[thefuzz]

Funny story about my guy.

 

 

Dude never left the yard, ever, but also wouldn't poop in the back yard as that's where my roommates dog crapped, and mine didn't think he was a K9...anyway.

 

 

Let him out front to drop a deuce, and he never wandered back in the house.  Not normal.  I go looking for him, nothing.

 

Couple hours later, I had been on FB, had my girlfriend at the time leave work to print and hang signs, and had visited animal control, where they gave me a ticket for his rabies being out of date by a month.

 

I was freaking, had placed $500 reward on all the signs and fb messages.  This dog was like a child.

 

 

Dude calls and says he has my dog, I am walking around the neighborhood as we were speaking screaming his name.  I ask, what your address so I can come over to make sure he's mine......XXXX so and so street.....my neighbor from like 4 houses down.

 

 

He was a Pizza Hut driver, and saw my dog in the front yard, stopped to make sure that he was OK and my dog smelled pizza and wouldn't get out of the car.  He was on a delivery, but was swinging by his house to pick up something and my boy got a whiff and wouldn't get out of the car.

 

I wanted to kill him, and hug him.  I still gave him the 500.