rabies

Last night I was at a cook-out with some friends (in Tejas we have to be very careful about throwing around the word BBQ, if its burgers and veggies on the grill, it's a cook-out). The hosts have a tiny crazy English Bulldog, who spent the entire night trying to get out the kitchen door and on to the stoop with all of us. At one point another dog, a boarder collie, wandered over and finally they let the bulldog out to play. The two dogs chased each other around a bit, but the the bulldog retreated back inside. The collie hung around for a long while, and our hosts admitted that they'd never seen this dog in the neighborhood. Ever. The dog had on a collar and a flea collar, but no tags - other than his rabies tag. We began calling the dog Rabies. He was super responsive to this name, and hung out for a few hours. We gave him water, which he slurped up with the quickness. We also gave him table scraps (or really, less scraps and more actual pieces of food). I even played the best game of fetch with Rabies for about 35 minutes. He was much fun, but we felt bad because it became obvious that he was likely lost. With nothing more than the rabies tag to go on, we called the vet number on the tag, and then the answering service to report him missing. The vet we spoke to was not able to get to the office and asked us to hold on to Rabies for the evening so that we could sort it out tomorrow. Our cook-out hosts penned Rabies up in their backyard, and the vet had my number to call in the morning.

As the night progressed Rabies got louder and louder in the yard, angering all the neighbors, so they had to let him out of there. Sadly, when the vet called this morning none of us had thought to write down the tag number - so we have nothing to report about where Rabies is from, who he belongs to, and whether or not I can keep him - afterall, I'm gonna have a big back yard in a matter of weeks! Hopefully he found his way home, or will find his way back to the bulldog house, where they can call the vet again!

*NOTE: this picture is NOT Rabies. See the leaves, wherever this picture was taken it was Fall. We don't have that season here.