A friend of mine called me yesterday, saying she got a call from a friend of hers, who has a "found" male Yorkie. And did I want him
? The story is, her friend's adult daughter found this Yorkie running around in an area near where we live, but it's basically an out-in-the-desert, low income area, so it sort of raises a red flag for me right there. Along with the fact that it's pretty hard to believe that anyone would just abandon a little Yorkie out in the middle of the desert (although, there are a LOT of abandoned dogs out in this area from what I've heard).
Anyway, I spoke to the girl's dad who has seen and interacted with the dog (they don't want to keep it b/c he's got 9 cats, a Great Dane and a Pug; and his daughter works and has 2 small children) and says it's a very nice, seemingly healthy dog, is housetrained etc.....so it sounds like someone's lost (or stolen) pet to me.
I told him that I think the girl should take the dog to a vet and have it scanned to see if it's microchipped (he told me they'd called shelters and put out flyers already and nobody responded), and if not, I would take the dog. But I'd like to spend some time today trying to find if it is someone elses (the man told me he's not sure that his daughter wanted to take the dog to the vet b/c "she might be afraid of getting into trouble if they think she stole it"...I told him if she's trying to find the owner, she's certainly not going to get into any trouble, and if it was an issue for her, to bring the dog to me and I"ll take him to a vet to be scanned (or I'll go to my friend's house who has a scanner and I can get it read there and look it up hopefully). W/E.
I just would like to find anyplace I could look to check for anyone around this area (God only knows if it's even FROM this area, that's what scares me; what if it was stolen from somewhere else???). I guess there's the shelters first and then where do I look? Thanks for any help or suggestions you might have!