The way I am with arcade games, Susan is with dogs.  Yesterday, as we were getting out of the car after a long day of shopping, this gal came up to us in the driveway -



She's a sweet chocolate lab, who is obviously trained and is very well behaved.  She had a collar, but no identifying tags.  We took her to the vet to scan her for a microchip, but she didn't  have one.  So, after we got back, we walked her around the neighborhood, asking everybody that we encountered if she looked familiar, or if they knew someone missing her.  Nobody did.  The next step was to post ads on the internet.  I put a 'found' notice on both Craigslist and the NOLA.com forums, and sent an email to the Jefferson Parish animal shelter letting them know that we found her, just in case the owner went there looking for her.  This morning, I printed up a bunch of signs, and put them up on the phone poles at all of the major intersections around the neighborhood.  I hope we find her owner.  I know I would be going nuts if one of our guys got out.  My cousin Amber recently went through such an experience.  Fortunately, her dog had the chip, and after a few days, she got a call from the Kenner pound.  I hope this girl has the same happy ending.

Happy Ending Edit

Well, we got a call, and I just reunited 'Emma' with her family.  It turns out that she lived one street over and one block down from us.  Susan actually remembers her barking at Hugo and Tucker when she used to walk her that way.  Small world after all, huh?