I'm currently on the road from Phoenix, Arizona to home (yes I can get internet access in the car - passes the time!!). We stopped at a travel centre for dinner and as we were leaving we saw a dog by the side of the road almost on the highway. I got out of the car while DH did a lap and parked the car.
The poor doggy was lying down and wouldn't get up and was ust looking at me with big soulful eyes. 30 minutes later after trying to get someone from the gas station to help me, trying to find a number for animal control and eventually finding a numer for someone to page control, I got a bit closer to the dog and he jumped up and tried to run away towards the highway. I realised he wasn't injured but freaked out, which was more of a risk to running on the highway where there was heaps of RVs, trucks and cars driving along.
I called 911 since at the shelter where I volunteer that's what we have to do for reports of a dog on a highway and they said they'd put a call out.
By this time the dog lay back down again looking really sad. He had a collar but I saw no tag, and he looked like he had a frayed leash around his neck, so i think he'd escaped from somewhere. It was breaking my heart!
I got a call back from animal control saying that since he wasn't hurt they wouldn't come get him and it would have to "wait until Monday". I was so mad and told the girl that he was going to be injured very soon since the only way for him to get off the grass was to get onto the road in front of all the traffic. She still said there was nothing she could do
We'd been with the dog about 45 minutes by this stage, and we were still 3 hours from home after nearly 12 hours of driving, and I didn't know what more to do so we had to leave him
He was too scared to come near us so I couldn't get him in the car.
I know I did all I could, but I feel so bad for him. I hope the highway patrol goes to retrieve him otherwise he's dead and will potentially cause a bad traffic accident as well. Poor little guy
The poor doggy was lying down and wouldn't get up and was ust looking at me with big soulful eyes. 30 minutes later after trying to get someone from the gas station to help me, trying to find a number for animal control and eventually finding a numer for someone to page control, I got a bit closer to the dog and he jumped up and tried to run away towards the highway. I realised he wasn't injured but freaked out, which was more of a risk to running on the highway where there was heaps of RVs, trucks and cars driving along.
I called 911 since at the shelter where I volunteer that's what we have to do for reports of a dog on a highway and they said they'd put a call out.
By this time the dog lay back down again looking really sad. He had a collar but I saw no tag, and he looked like he had a frayed leash around his neck, so i think he'd escaped from somewhere. It was breaking my heart!
I got a call back from animal control saying that since he wasn't hurt they wouldn't come get him and it would have to "wait until Monday". I was so mad and told the girl that he was going to be injured very soon since the only way for him to get off the grass was to get onto the road in front of all the traffic. She still said there was nothing she could do
We'd been with the dog about 45 minutes by this stage, and we were still 3 hours from home after nearly 12 hours of driving, and I didn't know what more to do so we had to leave him
I know I did all I could, but I feel so bad for him. I hope the highway patrol goes to retrieve him otherwise he's dead and will potentially cause a bad traffic accident as well. Poor little guy