[Beamers Mom]

I would be very wary of getting close enough to this dog to read the tag - if it has a tag.
Years ago we had a problem with a dog in the neighborhood. We had Tee-Nah, one of the Lhasa's we had at the time, out in our own fenced in back yard. A dog dug under the fence and was trying to get to her. I picked her up and that dog jumped up and bit me on the leg.
I had called animal control about the dog just moments before about the dog being loose before he had dug under the fence, only to be told that I needed to keep Tee-Nah on a leash, I said that was crazy, when she is only in our own fenced in back yard.
So, after I was bit, I called animal control back, only to be told that their animal control officers were busy responding to dog bites. I told the woman that now they had another dog bite case. She was a bit snarky and asked if I was getting medical attention. Told her I was on my way to the ER, and she said to have the medical staff call when I was there. Don't think she believed I was bitten. But the medical staff called.
Animal control still didn't come out.
The next day I saw the same dog in the front yard, so I called animal control again. They asked if we could catch the dog and keep it until they got there! I told them this dog had already bitten me and they wanted us to risk getting bitten again. They suggested I take Tee-Nah into the back yard and put her in a kennel and try to lure the dog to Tee-Nah. I told them they were crazy if they thought I was going to use Tee-Nah as bait.
A little while later animal control showed up with two male officers, they said they were just going to watch the dog to see if it returned home and they could follow it! Well, they couldn't get it, then a female officer came out to join them. She had that dog within minutes.
They quarantined the dog to make sure it hadn't got rabies. Luckily it didn't, so I didn't have to have any shots. But no-one ever claimed the dog.