Bleeding Heart

We ran out to do an errand tonight and when we got home, a stray black dog was hanging around our house. He's an older dog with some gray around his nose/mouth, very thin, and sweet as can be. He's got a collar on, with no tags. So I took him some dog food and water and he scarfed it all down. I pet him for a while and he really seems in no hurry to leave. So I called the Sheriff's dept., the local radio station, the Humane society and I posted him on the local Yahoo group. Someone emailed back that they saw him in their area - about 2 miles away - the other day.

So I put a blanket out in the garage for him, with some more food, and he seems content to stay for now. Marc says he keeps remembering the scene from "Marley & Me where Marley wanders off because he's old and wants to be alone when he...passes on. He's convinced when we wake up tomorrow morning this dog is going to be frozen stiff in our garage.

I keep pushing to let him in so he doesn't get too cold out there, but I think Marc will win this one tonight. Hopefully by tomorrow we'll be able to find his owners, if not, I'm such a sucker, we'll probably end up with a 3rd dog for the time being.