My dog got out
Every half hour or so I'd wander round the field and up and down the road whistling and calling.
After a couple of hours I became quite concerned, he often goes out fo sight, but always comes back in 20 mins or so (it's a 5 acre field with thick hedges all round, he could be 2 m from me in a hedge and I'd struggle to see him!)
I could hear a lot of barking from a nearby farm so went and asked them. Note this is far from Ideal, I tested positive for covid on Monday morning and had no intention of leaving my field ! " There's a post on Facebook " the girl tells me. I thank her for her time and set about finding the post.
2 hours previously someone had posted up that they found him on the road. I comment and send a PM. No response, I try to call through messenger, no response. I post on FB again asking if someone could call the OP. Someone send me her number. I call her
"Hey, yes, sorry, I think you have my dog"
" I've taken him into the vets in town (10 miles away) you'll have to go and collect him from there "
No friends or family available mid afternoon on a Tuesday so I have little choice but to pack up the campervan, drive into town then call the vets asd ask that they bring the dog to me in the carpark, which they kindly did.
Yes, he shouldn't of been out on the road
Yes, knowing that the phone numbers written on his collar were fading I should have bought him a dog tag (I have now ordered one)
I know she was trying to be helpful, but if she had left him alone, he would have been home a lot sooner
Maybe she was worried about him getting run over, but he's 5 and so far he has a 100% record in not getting run over
Posting on social media (a very small local community page at that) then not monitoring it, seems a bit daft.
Taking him 10 miles from where she found him seems daft also.
Ultimately the responsibility was mine, he shouldn't have been on the road, he should have had a tag. But in actuality a "helpful citizen" made an slightly awkward situation a lot worse.