Power of Social Media - sometimes good

Was doing rounds today at the various water treatment plants that my company operates and had the door open on one of the plants as i was moving chemicals into the building. Well in walks a hound.

Beautiful female with a GPS collar but no other tags. This is in the middle of a subdivision. She was clearly lost, confused and cold. Opened the door to my truck and she hopped right in, sat long enough for me to take a quick pic and than laid down on the front passenger seat. I turned the seat heater on to medium and she was pretty quickly nodding off.

I figured there was a good chance her GPS battery was dead so posted a pic on a local community facebook group saying where i found her. Within 6 minutes someone recognized her and 45 minutes later her owner picked her up and confirmed the GPS was dead. He was very grateful. The hound:

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That was a very good thing you done, glad the owner got him back safely. Job well done :thumbup:

Giver yourself a nice pat on the back, job well done!

Great job, she’s really pretty.

Well done! There are few moments better than returning a lost dog to its owners.

Kudos, for the entitative in showing care.

I'm happy for the out come of this. However there's something I don't understand. The hound looks well cared for and in decent shape, its wearing a garmin collar and a regular collar. A garmin systems are approx worth a thousand dollars. I see no reasonable reason why the collar has no brass id tag c/w contact info. Worth about 2.50.

Well done Species!
Someone found my lost setter once. They wanted $500. to return my dog because"they had to take it to the vet to have its nails trimmed." What???? The guy ws a lawyer. :) NOT saying all lawyers are like that.

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Originally Posted by swampsinger

I'm happy for the out come of this. However there's something I don't understand. The hound looks well cared for and in decent shape, its wearing a garmin collar and a regular collar. A garmin systems are approx worth a thousand dollars. I see no reasonable reason why the collar has no brass id tag c/w contact info. Worth about 2.50.

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Easy enough to guess what happened. "I'll get to putting on ID later as I won't happen to me" Bet anything first thing done will be putting on the tags.

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Originally Posted by Sharon

Well done Species!
Someone found my lost setter once. They wanted $500. to return my dog because"they had to take it to the vet to have its nails trimmed." What???? The guy ws a lawyer. :)

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Snakes come in all walks of life. Ya I believe this guy was a snake who happened to be a lawyer, however doesn't make all lawyers a snake.
Got to have faith in the human spirit just as the OP demonstrated.

Love an ending that puts a smile on your face when it comes to lost dogs... Nicely done Joe...

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Originally Posted by Sharon

Well done Species!
Someone found my lost setter once. They wanted $500. to return my dog because"they had to take it to the vet to have its nails trimmed." What???? The guy ws a lawyer. :) NOT saying all lawyers are like that.

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Whaaat? That's terrible. I can't believe some people, that's not the motive for doing a good deed (to be rewarded, I mean).

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Originally Posted by Species8472

Was doing rounds today at the various water treatment plants that my company operates and had the door open on one of the plants as i was moving chemicals into the building. Well in walks a hound.

Beautiful female with a GPS collar but no other tags. This is in the middle of a subdivision. She was clearly lost, confused and cold. Opened the door to my truck and she hopped right in, sat long enough for me to take a quick pic and than laid down on the front passenger seat. I turned the seat heater on to medium and she was pretty quickly nodding off.

I figured there was a good chance her GPS battery was dead so posted a pic on a local community facebook group saying where i found her. Within 6 minutes someone recognized her and 45 minutes later her owner picked her up and confirmed the GPS was dead. He was very grateful. The hound:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...ef0d052a_b.jpg[

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What a sweet guurrrl. Good job, Species.

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Originally Posted by Sharon

Well done Species!
Someone found my lost setter once. They wanted $500. to return my dog because"they had to take it to the vet to have its nails trimmed." What???? The guy ws a lawyer. :) NOT saying all lawyers are like that.

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The site won't let me use the word I'd like to use to describe this guy. I'd pay the money and then I would make him famous. Very famous.

Yeah it works out good sometimes. I found 2 wallets and a phone ths summer all found its home. 2 of them we found online one of the wallets was found in the driveway at a golf course. Backed up the 20 ft hino half km back turning into the office revealed it was a member lol.

The other wallet was cards spewed all over the rd with 400 bucks inside send the info to my wife and was picked up 3 hours later when I was back at the shop. Got a 100 bucks we split it 4 ways 2 other guys in the truck and a cut for the tracker lol.

The phone I saw it on the way to Fenlon it was on the yellow line an hour and 30 later I decided to stop if it was still there. The phone was locked so it went up in lost and found group 3 hours later it found its owners.
It had a screenshot of some animals we didn't release that info but knew the details.


Found 5 bucks in a parking lot nothing around I kept that lol.

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Sharon, you certainly have enough integrity on this site to remove anyone's doubt as to the accuracy of what you say, but I can't help wonder what the details of the story may include? How long was the dog AWOL?
If I was to find any dog that "needed" vet attention for its immediate well being, I would certainly bring it in and get the proper care. Naturally , I would expect the owner, if found, to cover the expenses of vet bill. Trimming nails wouldn't be on my priority list though.

I'm sorry I distracted from Species original post. We should get back to that.

"If I was to find any dog that "needed" vet attention for its immediate well being, I would certainly bring it in and get the proper care. Naturally , I would expect the owner, if found, to cover the expenses of vet bill." quote Bushmoose.

Absolutely , I would do the same and expect to be paid.
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response to Bushmoose's post above:

The dog was gone a week?? I posted the missing dog info in our newspaper. A neighbour to the guy who found the dog called me and said her neighbour had my dog. If she hadn't called............. I went to the guy's house and took a picture of my dog with me to prove he was my dog. . He was not happy to see me .... the neighbor , not the dog. :) I can understand why he wanted to keep her; she was a wonderful setter. She was definitely worth $500. to me so I just paid up and got out of there.

Had a dog stolen at a gun club too. Now that still bothers me.

Ya I kinda doubt it cost 500 to feed a dog and get it’s nails trimmed.