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10-30-00, 08:06 PM 10-30-00
Hi, I read this news on about a dog waiting at a road intersection, for more than a week, waiting for its missing owner to return. http://petshub.com/ubb/frown.gif
Roadside dog a curious mystery
October 28, 2000
By THOMAS WRAUSMANN Jerseyville bureau chief ELSAH -- Loyalty is one of the virtues dog lovers enjoy most about the canine species, and a certain dog camped out in Elsah appears to have loyalty in abundance. A yellowish-red chow, with a tag, was apparently abandoned on Elsah Road at the intersection with the back road to the Chautauqua resort community. The dog has remained at that intersection, above the village, for more than a week, apparently waiting for its missing owner to return, a resident said.
"Someone had to have told it to sit and stay," said rural Elsah resident Lynn Schreiber. "It’s just sad. There he sits."
A number of people have expressed a willingness to help find the dog a home, or at least get him to an animal shelter. The problem is, the dog won’t let anyone get near it.
Schreiber, who volunteers at Treehouse Wildlife Center near Brighton, said that whenever she or anyone else approaches, he either runs away briefly or barks angrily. When they leave, he comes back to the same spot.
After awhile, she said, the dog let her get within about 10 feet before it got nasty. "That was the end of that," Schreiber said.
People with the Humane Society in Madison County and Alton Area Animal Aid Association have said they would be willing to take the dog if he could be captured in a large live trap.
Schreiber confessed she doesn’t have the slightest idea where she could get such a trap or how to use it properly. "I don’t even have a dog myself."
She and at least one other person have been bringing the solitary animal food, but she found a note Wednesday from someone who said they were trying to catch the chow. He or she asked that people stop feeding the dog because this might make it easier to catch him, Schreiber said.
Dr. David Wendell, a veterinarian at the Jersey-Calhoun Veterinary Hospital in Jerseyville, said chows tend to be extremely loyal to their masters but they don’t usually take to other people. "They tend to be one-person dogs."
"They are real protective of the person they’ve attached themselves to," he said. "After that it gets tough."
Dog dumping has become a real problem in this quaint Jersey County community, Schreiber said. "There’s just so many dogs dumped out here."
She said people from other communities are frequently abandoning their dogs in Elsah. "I don’t know if they think it’s a nice community where people will care of them or what?
"It’s just awful," she said of the pet dumping. "I hope somebody can catch him before it gets cold."
Anyone who may be able to help can call her at 374-2024.
©The Telegraph 2000
Roadside dog a curious mystery
October 28, 2000
By THOMAS WRAUSMANN Jerseyville bureau chief ELSAH -- Loyalty is one of the virtues dog lovers enjoy most about the canine species, and a certain dog camped out in Elsah appears to have loyalty in abundance. A yellowish-red chow, with a tag, was apparently abandoned on Elsah Road at the intersection with the back road to the Chautauqua resort community. The dog has remained at that intersection, above the village, for more than a week, apparently waiting for its missing owner to return, a resident said.
"Someone had to have told it to sit and stay," said rural Elsah resident Lynn Schreiber. "It’s just sad. There he sits."
A number of people have expressed a willingness to help find the dog a home, or at least get him to an animal shelter. The problem is, the dog won’t let anyone get near it.
Schreiber, who volunteers at Treehouse Wildlife Center near Brighton, said that whenever she or anyone else approaches, he either runs away briefly or barks angrily. When they leave, he comes back to the same spot.
After awhile, she said, the dog let her get within about 10 feet before it got nasty. "That was the end of that," Schreiber said.
People with the Humane Society in Madison County and Alton Area Animal Aid Association have said they would be willing to take the dog if he could be captured in a large live trap.
Schreiber confessed she doesn’t have the slightest idea where she could get such a trap or how to use it properly. "I don’t even have a dog myself."
She and at least one other person have been bringing the solitary animal food, but she found a note Wednesday from someone who said they were trying to catch the chow. He or she asked that people stop feeding the dog because this might make it easier to catch him, Schreiber said.
Dr. David Wendell, a veterinarian at the Jersey-Calhoun Veterinary Hospital in Jerseyville, said chows tend to be extremely loyal to their masters but they don’t usually take to other people. "They tend to be one-person dogs."
"They are real protective of the person they’ve attached themselves to," he said. "After that it gets tough."
Dog dumping has become a real problem in this quaint Jersey County community, Schreiber said. "There’s just so many dogs dumped out here."
She said people from other communities are frequently abandoning their dogs in Elsah. "I don’t know if they think it’s a nice community where people will care of them or what?
"It’s just awful," she said of the pet dumping. "I hope somebody can catch him before it gets cold."
Anyone who may be able to help can call her at 374-2024.
©The Telegraph 2000