Citizen's arrest, citizen's arrest!
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 3:26 pm
Last night I needed to make a later evening run to the grocery store. @hub joined me and sat dutifully in the car while I went in to grab my much needed items. He had forgotten his phone so he sat people watching. I got the items, paid, and was walking out the door when I saw a dog tied to a post. He was young, cute and very enthusiastic. I patted his head and he slathered my hand and arm with canine saliva. I swear to God his tongue must have been 5' long. He looked like an English pointer, German pointer bird dog mix of some sort. He had a crazy look to his eyes. I was kind of muttering under my breath that it was awfully irresponsible to leave him alone like that as I arrived at the car which was parked very close to the store. As I got in @hub said, "Hey, that's not the person who left that dog there", pointing to a woman who now had the dog by its leash. He said a man and a kid tied the dog there and that this woman had not been anywhere near them. A short debate ensued with me encouraging @hub to mind his own business, but with me concerned that we were ignoring a dog-napping. @hub made a quick decision and bolted from the car. His intent was to go into the store and find the person who tied the dog up there to see if this woman shared custody of the dog or was feloniously taking it. He instructed me to go stop the woman. WTF? Seriously? Yes, well Ok, by this time the woman had got to her vehicle, an SUV and was trying to coax the dog into it. I sprinted, (HAHA I'm 55 and can still sprint if I have to, but damn my hip hurts today) across the parking lot trying to think of a way to accuse her, in a non-accusatory manner, of dog-napping, that wasn't completely insulting and inflammatory. I struck up a conversation with her in as pleasant a tone as I could, and explained the situation, while she tried to hang onto this looney mutt who was pulling at the leash and trying to make a break for it. His demeanor suggested that he had no idea who she was and that he was intent on making a break for it. As he spun her around and dragged her sideways, I was saying, well you know would you mind to wait until my husband finds the person who tied the dog up, you know, just to be sure, (apologetic tone suggesting this is all some silly mistake). I kept glancing at the store entrance hoping @hub would make an appearance. This is a huge store btw. The woman, barely able to contain the dog, began to explain that she hadn't had the dog for long, he was a rescue and he kept leaping out of the vehicle through the tiniest openings. She had lost him earlier and found him inside a hardware store.. She didn't know the person who had tied him to the post. I was really second guessing at this point. Finally @hub emerged and came jogging over. Turns out the he found the guy and was met with, :Zat eeesss not mah dog", apologies to Peter Sellers. We both apologized profusely to the woman. She was actually quite pleasant about it- insisting that we did the right thing. We agreed it was easy to see why the dog had been surrendered to the shelter. Our dog is a Houdini dog too even though age has slowed her down she escapes several times a year, usually tricking us by insisting that she has to poop at 2 am and insisting that she can only poop in the back yard and then slips under over or around, whatever the hell it is she does in the dark, while we stand in the dark calling for her fruitlessly because freedom brings on deafness. She is a black dog so darkness is her friend. Usually she is gone 45 minutes or so and will appear from the rift that is the neighbor's yard. All this in mind, I wished the woman luck with the dog.
I told @hub we needed to mind our own business.
I told @hub we needed to mind our own business.
@w & @hub 
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