by Louise Stapleton-Frappell
Recently, my nephew and I saw a dog running down a busy main road. She was very lucky as between us we managed to redirect her down an alleyway away from all the traffic and eventually I got her to come near enough to me so that I could take hold of her collar. She was obviously very frightened and stressed. A scared dog may well bite so my approach was very slow, low, friendly and unthreatening in order to gain some trust and not put either of us in a risky situation.
She was wearing a rabies tag with the name of a local vet on the back. I held her collar and soothed her while my nephew ran to our car to fetch a leash and some tasty treats. As there was no sign of her , I walked her to my car which she happily jumped into. We took her to the vet’s office where they scanned her chip to retrieve her name and ’s phone number.
It turned out that the dog’s was searching for her in a supermarket car park. She had opened the car door and her dog had jumped out and run away. The area we found her in was quite a distance from that supermarket! She was very lucky not to have been runover or lost forever.
Thankfully this story had a happy ending and Princesa was reunited with her but not all dogs are as lucky as she was.
