I woke up this morning an d noticed my dog wasn’t laying at my feet, which is unusual. So I get up out of bed and stroll on into the living room. When I arrived, I see my dog laying on the couch and he has a little friend with him! (He must have come in through the doggy door, not sure how he got in the back yard though.)
It was funny, as soon as the little guy saw me, he came running up to me like we had been best friends for years!
Anyway, little guy has a phone number to call on his dog collar, it’s still a little early, I figure I’ll call it around eight or so.
Too funny. I’d call right away, if my dog was missing I’d be worried to death.
Hmmm - my dog came home without her dog collar, I was wondering if maybe one of her friends tried it on - no call from Shakes as yet though.
Story one of my co-workers told me. It’s in the Too-Good-To-Be-True category, but he swore it happened.
He was in bed reading and the outside door must not have been completely closed. His neighbor’s dog – a big St. Bernard – was big enough to push the door open and wander into the house, eventually wandering into the bedroom. At that point, the noise alerted co-worker that something was in the room with him.
The book he was reading was Cujo by Stephen King
Reactions ensued.
Not as exciting as Cal’s story, but many years ago on the morning after Halloween, I was just getting out of the shower and there was a black cat sitting by the partially pushed-open door. My housemate at that time had a black cat. Even though I wasn’t wearing my glasses to see the cat clearly, of course I thought, “This is Dorothy. Hello, Dorothy!” and reached down to pet her.
When the cat sat up on its hind legs to take my hand and lick some of the water droplets off, I knew that something was weird. Dorothy was an elderly cat and would not sit up that way. Even with my blurry vision, I also noticed at this point that while Dorothy had white paws and muzzle, this cat was solid black, and was wearing a collar. Definitely not Dorothy.
So, when did we get this new kitty?
As far as we could figure, the cat had wandered in some time the night before while we had the front door open for trick-or-treaters and made himself at home. The owner lived down the street and came and got him later that morning, but Black Kitty came back to visit us several times.
Mebbe she pawned it for rawhide???
That is hilarious!
Welp, little guy has been reunited with his owner. The lady that pick him up said Google maps had our houses pegged at just over two miles apart. Yikes!
I was expecting this story to end with you noticing this “cat” had white stripes on its back.
My friend will occasionally find a raccoon chowing down on the cat food in the kitchen while the house cats patiently watch.
December 26, 1994 was a warm and sunny day here in Sacramento, so **Rhiannon8404 **and I had the front door open as we did whatever it is that you do on the day after Christmas, the first year in your new house. I came down the hall to the front room, only to find a small black cat curled up all snug beneath our Christmas tree. We gave him some milk, and ‘played’ with him for a bit, then he wandered out the door, back to wherever he came from. We saw him around here and there over the next several days.
A week or so later, it was a Dark and Stormy Night; we were settled in bed for the evening, when we heard a plaintive mewing coming from outside the sliding glass door. There, wet, bedraggled, and just generally pitiful, was our new friend. We looked at each other, and one of us pointed out that if we opened the door, we had a pet cat.
We named him Boxer, after the day he first came to us.
Now this is a great story.
A couple of our cats found / adopted / came to us for protection.
We have a lot of trouble with the word, “No.”
you have a great handle on compassion though
Before we got the electronic catflap, we had an ordinary one.
Mr Boods had a contract in Cambridge for a year, so stayed up there during the week. I slept with the bedroom door open so that the cats could come in and out as they pleased during the night.
I woke up one morning with two completely new cats nestled in the bed with me.
The one has since vanished since we got the electronic flap (it unlocks to let our microchipped cats in). The other, who is determined that this is his second home, has figured out that if he zooms in right on our slow, elderly cat’s ass, he can make it in through the flap before the latches lock it again.
Some days he makes it.
Some days he’s like those drivers who think they can tail a bus past a set of bollards
No pictures of the strange pup?
No, I’m afraid I have to break that rule. I can take pictures on my phone but whenever I try to download them the phone just freezes up. (Stupid phone)
Unplug the USB attachment from your AC plug and attach it to your PC.
Then connect the phone-end to your cell phone.
Then, drag/drop.
You’re Welcome. 
Years ago I lived in a duplex, had a couple cats. The neighbours had two English Spaniels that were deaf. I used to hear them bark excitedly occasionally and did not really think anything of it. One day the neighbour comes by and says he woke up in the middle of the night with my cat curled up on him and purring. Guess he was in the habit of going in the doggie door and raiding the food bowl without the deaf dogs finding him. Must of decided to have a nap.
<hijack> I’ve never seen retracting bollards. Where is this, and why do they? </not quite the end since I hope for an answer hijack>
I have seen things like this around driveway entrances to government buildings, but not blocking what looks to be a traffic lane like in the video.
To be fair to the people in the videos, if they’re driving behind buses, then they might not know that there are retracting bollards ready to smash them up. You can’t see around a bus.
Years ago my partner and I were installing a furnace in a house in Michigan. A big dog went in and out with us, so when we left we made sure he was inside. That evening I got a cal from the home owner saying I had left my dog in his house. He had no idea where the dog came from.