Stray Dog

[Krauter]

Hi everyone!

Somewhat of a random post but I figured I'd post it nonetheless...

My roommates and I were coming back from a movie tonight when, as we were walking up the road, a dog came running at us. The dog, a Chocolate Lab we think, didn't bark or appear aggressive at all. It just wanted to play and followed us home when we started playing with the stick it was carrying in its mouth.

Figuring because it wasn't aggressive or anything that it belonged to someone, the road it had come running from lead to an area with a lot of houses, we decided to wait and see if anyone was going to come around and pick it up. After waiting for about an hour, and seeing no circling cars or anything, we figured we'd just bring it home with us and keep it until we saw any ads or what have you. Also, it did have a collar, but no tags. That and the fact its nails were recently trimmed tells us its probably a runaway.

The dog itself, is a male, we're not sure of its name yet but some interesting ones have come up () seems to be trained, at least a little. while walking it back to our apartment with a makeshift leash it walked right next to us (after forgetting about the sticks, lol). While playing with it, we figured out that it won't jump up on furniture or grab things off of the table, it will sit or lie down and hasn't barked, growled or displayed any aggressive behaviour since we've brought him home.

Anyways, the point of this post is to see what we should do with it, talking among my roommates we've decided we can't keep it here as we don't exactly have a schedule suitable to take care of an animal, nor do we have the space. However a friend of ours owns a duplex a few minutes walk away with a back yard a lot more space, not to mention time, then us. My only concern is that our friend wants to leave the dog outside during the night or when he isn't home. Something I wouldn't worry about except it's been getting colder and colder during the nights. Also, how much exercise should the dog get? We think it's around 2 years old, from what we've seen its very hyper, but is also a little overweight.

Anyways, thanks all! I'll see if I can post some pics sometime tomorrow.

Krauter