"Buddy", a lonely dog on his own.
I was geocaching for "PVCC" and "REPORTING A NEW CACHE" when a medium size black and white dog came walking up the road towards me. He didn't have a collar, and as he got closer I could see that he had a wound on the left side of his neck and another on the lower right side of his chest. He had obviously been in a fight. He was not aggressive towards me at all, but was very cautious. I tried talking to him for a while and he hung around and watched me. I decided to continue looking for the cache, and he continued to hang and watched me. I wanted so bad to take him to his home, or to mine, he seemed lonely and was obviously surviving on his own.
I was on my way to work, but I would have gladly put him in the car and would have taken him someplace where he could get care and food. After a while he wondered off. I have had dogs all of my life and knew that I shouldn't just try to grab him or put him in the car. I wished him well as I watched as I watched him walk off to the NW from "Reporting a New Cache". I found the cache and went back to the car just sitting there wishing I could have done something.
I feel bad for "Buddy", as I named him in that quick moment. and I wondered how many more like him are around. Most of the time it's our carelessness that causes these sort of situations. I also know enough about dogs to be able to tell that "Buddy" was not the sort of dog that tries to get into trouble.
I have driven past the area several times since and have not seen him since. He has either moved on, or has been picked up, which may not necessarily be good - I don't know which. But I wanted to place a cache near where I met "Buddy" in his honor, and the honor of the hundreds of dogs like him that find themselves the innocent victims of our carelessness.
"Buddy", this one is for you!!!GODSPEED!!
DOG LOVERS-BUDDY
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