Yesterday, I was on my lunch break driving towards Taco Bell (Yeah, I know), and I found this guy running through the streets in the pouring rain.

I gave him a bath last night, and posted a craigslist ad and a FidoFind ad. Hopefully I can find it's owner.

Any ideas on how I might find the owner?

Thanks

edit: I'm thinking about naming him Babbage for the interim.

Don't you put tattoos or RF id tags on dogs over there?

I'm not sure about tattoos, but I think most dogs get id chips put in them. I'm guessing that an animal shelter would be able to read it. I'll need to call them.

Yeah. That would probably give the contact details of the owner anyway Cute little pseudo-dog anyway!

Are you implying that because it is small it is not truly a dog? Does the same work for humans?

Woa, touchy subject I suspect you are a tiny-dog owner?

No, just making a joke.
But just wait until Chris Katko sees this thread....

When I think that my cat is larger than that dog, I can only smirk. Especially since Jasper is a runt for his breed. I assume he's a mix, or was otherwise not fed properly after he was born...

Jasper's about 15lbs, quite long nose to tail, and Maine Coon's start at 15lbs, and thats for the females. Males are normally 20-40lbs.

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Who needs a small dog when you can get a big docile cat?

Seriously, when I get a dog, it'll be one of a: blood hound, golden retriever, or Sheltie/Collie.

Perhaps the dog is tagged?

That's not a cat, it's a stripy lion.

He's not that big.

Be honest. There's only one dog in this picture:
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No. All humans are equal. Only some are more equal than others.

When a cat's head looks the same size as a human's, I would tend to disagree

Jasper isn't in one of those pictures, and last I heard a human head weighs around 10lbs. Like I said, he's a runt of the breed.

Plus this breed has a LOT of fluffy fur around their face and neck. Makes their heads look a lot larger and rounder than they really are.

Kind of like this guy:

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Is that an artist's rendering of some sort of proto-human?

I did one of those "insert your image here to find your celebrity look-alike" and got him (Richard Stallman if anyone does not know) :/ That was a sad day.

RF frequency chips are not always useful. A dog was found earlier this year with one. They checked the chip, but the installer had gone out of business years ago.

Interesting evoloutionary trick. The woman across the street has a miniture (toy, teacup?) poodle. I was talking with her and the dog about two months ago. The dog is very shy around strangers, so I bent down and held out my hand to let her sniff me. She sniffed and held out her paw as if she wanted me to hold it. As I took it, Chrissie told me the dog doesn't like men. Apparently, I'm not a man.

You whistle like my brother, which is to say, poorly. You gotta watch those little dogs. People baby them because of their size and before long the dog is the dominant force in the household. Watch the Dog Whisperer.

I also think those little dogs are useless and owning one is dumb (more so than owning a dog at all). There's a great home video where an eagle or hawk swooped into a family's backyard and carried theirs away.

They make great fire and burglar alarms. Sometimes they're too sensitive, as when the postman comes though.

That is both hilarious and horrible. It didn't happen to me, so it is currently hilarious.

Apparently bunnies scream when the same thing happens to them. shudders

Lolli has been missing since Sunday. I fear the worst. The temperature is very low. We might get snow tomorrow.

My sister's oldest cat disappeared at my moms place out in Nova Scotia back during the last big storm

I had a dog disappear once. I followed its tracks through the snow (one of the few times Kentucky actually had snow) for hours, but never found her. She probably got picked up by the pound.

You don't own a dog because it's useful. Owning a bigger dog, unless it's a dangerous one (which would mean you are in danger of it too), isn't useful either. Maybe 1 on a million times a big mean dog will stop a burglar... The same as you don't have a baby because it's going to be useful to you some day... or at least you shouldn't.

Assuming they have enough sense to feed him some poisoned meat when casing the joint.

I took it to the local animal hospital and they scanned it for an RF chip. They said they found one, but that it was never registered. They suggested I also call the police and file a found animal report.

Also, I apparently got the gender wrong. I thought it was a boy, but it's a spade girl. I guess that protrusion isn't a wee wee. Yes, I just said wee wee.

If no one claims the dog, then I'll hold onto it. It's very loving, and it seems to like watching me play super nintendo.

You also just said "spade girl".

Just to be safe, my cats never stay out after about 7pm (or until we come in if it's warm outside) and I've 'trained' them to never go into the front-garden (those roads are dangerous you know) and to keep to the back garden and maybe the neighbours.

So far so good

That's not a dog, that's a rat.

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Halmén: if you cross a Schipperke with a Finnish Spitz, do you get a Schipperkele?

Google doesn't say what a Schipperkele is. Please translate?

Yes.

And yes.

Oh, and Tucker says.

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Perkele is like the devil or Satan. But worse.

And small dog's aren't nearly as useful for throwing at enemies for massive damage!

I can only hope that this comes back to haunt me twenty years from now. It'd mean I get to laugh twice!

Well, it's a cute dog that's for damn sure.

It looks similar to a couple of breeds that a couple of my aunts/uncles have. They usually have a lot longer fur, but it can be trimmed (as it usually is by my aunts). I can't be sure if it's the same breed or not. That is about as big as they get though. Well, I think one of them is slightly bigger, but it might be a different breed or gender. They all look the same to me.

One of them is pretty pathetic. The thing won't even try stairs. You could put it on a reasonably thick book and it wouldn't move until somebody carried it off. And it's not that it physically can't do it. It has managed to handle a step or two given the right motivation, but most of the time it'll just yap until a human picks it up. Maybe it's all about exploiting people and not fear. I don't know. A little exercise, discipline, affection; in that order might go a long way. Calm assertive energy is the key. A dog that little just has such an easy time exploiting people though so it's hard to get people to give it that. They prefer the idea of babying it.

That's why I say they're useless dogs. The only thing that dog does is depend on you for everything. I guess if you're the type of person that needs to be needed then it could fill that void, but for the rest of us I think that they're just food for real dogs.

Do you think big dogs don't depend on their owners for everything? Because they walk up the stairs they're not useless? I swear, every time you're against something (always) it's like you find one small detail that's bad about it then blow it way out of proportion and don't even examine any of the other points about it.

Let's try that myself. A big dog is heavy and hard to lift and handle. If you ever need to take it to the vet, you're in for a fight. Therefore, big docs are useless. People who own big dogs are just looking for something to boost their ego. "Man, that dude's got a big dog, he's sooooooo cool. He must be the most badass person ever." Also, big dog owners are just trying to make up for areas in which they are lacking.

See, you can make an argument out of anything, which I'm starting to think you do on purpose, just because you're a troll. Either that or you don't think before you speak (or type). Either way, you come off as a real jerk, somebody I would not want to count as a friend... No offense, but in every way you're someone I'd want to avoid IRL.

Little dogs yap and don't give very good cuddles.

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Owning any dog is a disgusting form of slavery.

We'll manage under the lash lick of our doggie overlords

Fucking Stallman is a celebrity?

And he would want to avoid you IRL too because.... you're Christian.
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Meta-arguments.

I find that very offensive! I'm a very respectful person, and I hang out with equally considerate people. We don't drink the blood of virgins when we have company over, because we understand how it could make some people upset!

Please don't lump us all into the same category!

Sure, celebrities are known for their well-knownness. Just because your hero hates my hero doesn't change that.

But then some people think I'm famous...

So you're a celebrity by the definition given above.

So you're a celebrity if ONE person thinks you're famous?

I'm known by hundreds of people, all over the world. Does that mean I'm a celebrity?

I don't need anyone to tell me the truth: I am famous because I decided it to be like that. Understood ?

That picture is probably from back when all the unix people looked like filthy hippies - or actually, when all the unix people were filthy hippies.
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Richard Stallman IS a filthy hippy.

Nah. Richard Stallman is a sissy who still obsesses about injustice done to him and his code over thirty years ago. Nonetheless, the FSF does provide a good handful of invaluable tools, so I won't complain much. And basically, his stance that software ought to be free, and that the user has a right to the source code doesn't sound all wrong to me.
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Oh, and isn't it wonderful how this thread went from dogs and cats to Richard Stallman?

You're welcome.

Back to the topic, how has it gone with the dog, decepto ?

Hey, it's not me, its bammy! I'm slightly more extreme than you, we bring out the virgin blood to troll on unwanted company! Amazing how fast they clear out!

I don't mind hanging around Christian people. I do mind when their silly beliefs get in the way of things or when they try to push their beliefs on me, but I just refute them.

I found the owner!

Every attempt I made to find the owner was a dead end, so I went back to where I originally found it and walked around the neighborhood going door to door. Eventually I found an old man who suggested that I ask the residents of a certain house he pointed to. As soon as I walked up to the door of the house, a lady came running out telling me that she had been looking everywhere for the dog (apparently not hard enough :/).

So yeah, the dog is home and safe. And I'm alone again, naturally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8

So, out of curiosity, just how far away from where you found it was this house?

She lived about 100 meters from where I found her.

They must have a pretty big back yard.

Why do you say that?

So basically you kidnapped the dog. Shame on you.

So you lost the dog, big deal. Look on the bright side, we can't make fun of you for having such a small pet now.

Scaling the 10 foot high fence was the hardest part.