Em and I drove to Pacific East Mall in Albany today for a massage. After we parked our car, we noticed a dog scrounging in the bushes for food. It had a collar and dog tag but looked thin and was walking with a slight limp. Not seeing anyone around, we chased her down and gave her some crackers to eat. She was trembling and easily scared by any sudden noises or movements.

We got the dog into the car and called the numbers on her tag. One was for the vet and the other was for the owner. We couldn’t reach the owner, so we left a message and called the vet. Casey calmed down a bit in the car…she seemed to enjoy feeling the wind on her face out of the back window. She gobbled up the crackers we gave her and started responding to her name quickly.

Eventually we got her to the vet…after about an hour, the grateful owner called us to thank us. She said they had just lost the dog about an hour ago, but that’s a little hard for me to believe. Seems like she was on her own for at least a day or two. In any case, we were happy to reunite Casey with her owner…saving an animal’s life beats getting a massage any day! (Well, maybe not tomorrow…I want a massage dammit!)