After getting unpacked and doing all the laundry on Monday, I returned to work on Tuesday. Paul's sister, Marie, was working in Dublin this week, so she stayed with us for the week. Last night the two of us went to a couple of shops near our apartment, and when we were getting ready to leave we spotted an adorable little dog wandering around the parking lot. We waited awhile to see if anyone was with her, but no one appeared. We asked the security guard in the parking lot about her, and he said she had been there awhile but not with anyone. She had a collar but no ID tags and was well looked after- beautiful coat and teeth. We knew she had to be someone's pet and couldn't just leave her to wander near a busy road.
So, we tried taking her to the nearest Garda (police) station. We were told that normally they would take her, but they had prisoners in all the cells and would have no place to put her. They gave us the phone number of the dog warden, but when we rang, we got a message saying it was basically a 9-5 service. We tried ringing another Garda station, but they wouldn't take her because technically she was found in the area of the first station. There was no way we were going to let such a nice dog wander all night, so we took her back to the apartment. Meanwhile, Paul was out getting my car serviced in an area where there is no mobile phone coverage, so he had no idea of our adventures. When Paul finally got home at 11:30 last night he found us sitting up with the dog, and I'm pretty sure it was love at first sight! He even let her up into the bed because she was whining.
This morning I rang the dog warden to give the details of the dog but said that we would be more than willing to keep her until her owners were found. She is such a good dog (perfectly house trained, didn't chew on anything!) that we couldn't bear the thought of her in a pound. When I was finished with work I took her to a local vet to see if she had a microchip- no luck. We printed posters, and when I was distributing the one to the security office of the parking lot where we found her, the worker said that someone had just been there with photos looking for the same dog. We got in contact, and it was a very happy reunion between Penny and her owners. Turns out their nephew had taken the dog out, switched it's collar with one of his friend's dogs, then lost the dog. He didn't tell them until 11 at night because he didn't want to get in trouble! At least it was a happy ending, and below is a photo of Penny.
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