My Sister and The Pink Dog

No doubt, there are some of you who think I’m crazy. That’s ok . . sometimes I think I’m crazy too, but crazy in a good way. I have one sister . . no brothers. My sister is as crazy as I am but she’s brave crazy. She does lots of dog rescues. She works with several local and statewide groups and really, it’s a full time volunteer job for her.

It seems that yesterday (Saturday), she was driving from one part of town to another part of town, in the little town where her grandkids live. Pam (sister) doesn’t live there but has a small house there for when she visits her grandkids. She brings her dogs and it’s just easier for her to maintain a house there. (And, I can bring my dogs and stay there when I go to Louisiana so I really like her idea of having a house there!) But, she isn’t terribly familiar with all the new subdivisions. Maybe since we’re sisters, she has the same sense of direction I have!

To hear her tell it, and I can see it happening just like this, she was driving through a neighborhood, a little purple/pink “thing” ran across the road in front of her vehicle. She had her grandkids in the car and they were screaming “What was that?” Pam said “I think it was a dog!” Dogs are not supposed up be on unless on a leash so she stopped and picked it up. Pam said it was horribly matted (she had pictures to prove it) and full of fleas. She knocked on a few doors. No one admitted to recognizing this dog. It had no collar and no tags, not even the rabies vaccine tag.

Then a lady, we’ll call Owner,  posted on Facebook that someone had stolen her dog and she had a picture from a security camera of Pam out picking up the dog. One of Pam’s friends sent it to her so Pam messaged Owner and said “I have your dog. Please give me your address and I’ll bring him back to you.” Pam included her cell phone number. Then Pam posted a note on the “stolen dog” Facebook post that she had picked up the dog thinking it was a stray, had messaged Owner and would return it as soon as she provided her address” because at that point, Pam didn’t even know the street name where she had picked up the dog. She had been to visit a friend and was weaving her way through a neighborhood to get back to the main street.

Pam messaged Owner probably a dozen times saying “Please call me!” and leaving her phone number. When questioned on FB about why she didn’t call Pam back, she said her cell phone was dying but really, this went on long enough that she could have charged her cell phone 20 times. 

Oh, my . . this went on for SEVEN hours on Facebook. Maybe longer . . I finally went to bed at 3 a.m. after waking Vince twice with my laughing out loud. I had sent a link to several of my friends who were all reading it and we were messaging back and forth . . just dying laughing.

Pam bathed the dog 5 or 6 times, then clipped some of the mats out of it’s hair. Here’s one example of how hilarious this thing got with over 1,000 comments and over 100 shares. Owner said the dog was a male. Pam, who knows a lot about dogs, said it’s a female. Owner said “No, not a female. There’s this thing called neutering .. ”  That got the entire Facebook group in an uproar but then Owner said “He doesn’t even think he’s a dog. He thinks he’s a bird!” At one point, she said the dog’s favorite color was pink. 

Someone photoshopped or found a picture of a little bird with a pug dog type face on it and said “Is this your dog?” I’m telling you . . I could not stop laughing at the funny posts. Owner called my sister every name in the book . . told her get a job so she doesn’t have to go stealing other people’s dogs. Owner never would tell my sister her address or respond with a place where they could meet to get the dog back. Finally, someone who knew Owner sent Pam her address but by then it was way late and Pam was afraid to go by herself. 

I knew that the moderators of the Facebook group would take it all down as soon as they saw it and sure enough, it’s all gone this morning. One of my friends was copying some of it so we could share it with our husbands this morning. I keep thinking of parts of it all to tell Vince but I guess you had to be there.

Someone posted, but I haven’t confirmed it with Pam, that she is going with a deputy to meet the woman and return the dog this morning. I’m sorry my sister was tortured with all this last night. I’m sorry there was a dog that was matted and covered in fleas but it was the funniest thing I have ever seen on Facebook.

I am happy to report (but I’m not nearly as happy as my sister is . . to be done with this drama) that Pam met Owner’s friend at a public place this morning and the dog has been returned and hopefully after all this brouhaha, Owner will keep it out of the street. My sister says she will never pick up another stray . . but I bet she does.