What do you do, if you find a stray dog?
Do you take it home?
Do you take it ro RSPCA or somewhere?

well first ill take him in a dog pound..let me check if someone own that dog, if no ones declared that dog i might take care of him

We first check collar for any current phone number and address tags, if we fail, the usual course of action is a call to our local RSPCA or council to check if no one has reported the dog missing, if this takes us no where, we have a tendancy to then walk the dog around the local streets, in hope that it can lead us to its home.

After a couple of hours trying we will then normally turn the dog into the RSPCA given that the reality is that RSPCA is the first call somone will make when a pet goes missing anyway.

We have a couple of local runaways that come straight to our house if they get out of their yard because they know we are friendly and play with them, bur we dont mind, in both instances we know where they came from and take them back home OR the owners have now worked out where they go and will come to our place first to look for them......its been a good way to get to know neighbours from further down the street!

[tallblondes]

Well the replies so far sounds so sensible! I, on the other hand, rescued a dog once (years ago) from the middle of a major street. She was walking like she was drunk and looked like she was a thousand years old. I picked her up in my coat and put her in my car. I tried to bathe her, but it was nearly impossible. I took her to my vet thinking they would sadly shake their heads and have to put her down. When they called with news, they listed about a million things wrong with her and then said I could pick her up before 5 along with her medications! ha ha. What did I do? I chose to try to find her a home while I nursed her back to health. She had a freakish growth on her side the size of a mouse and was heartworm positive. Believe it or not, I actually found her a home and she lived out the rest of her life spoiled rotten. I guess you do what seems like the right thing to do. I knew if I took her to a shelter she would likely be first in line for euthanization.

[unstresst]

I would have to turn the dog over to the pound.
I already have two pets that need new homes.

Happens at least once a month here.........they never have collars / ID

i cant keep them and ya cant let them keep runnin loose

[Lunareclipse]

Call the pound and the shelter to inform them you found the dog and post pics on facebook.

[Yogi]

I am pretty sure if you check, each state has laws pertaining to the handling of a found or stray dog with regards to your requirements under the law before you can lay claim to them. It is best to seek that information out as it gives you steps to take and procedures to follow to ensure you are complying with the law.
I usually recommend posting an ad on Craigslist in your area both on the pets and lost and found section. Check with your vet to see if there is a micro chip.
Most vets offices allow you to put up notices of found dogs. Also local grocery stores usually have boards near the entrance for such things.
Just because you do not find a post or ad noting the dog has been lost does not mean it is necessarily a stray. Many people simply do not know how to use the tools out there when their dog gets loose, which is unfortunate. It is best to side with the idea that someone is desperately seeking their lost loved one. Just as you would like them to think if your dog were to get loose and run off.

[StrayMagnet]

This just happend to me 1 week ago today,

A stray, showed up at my house on monday. and we thought it left, but tues afternoon it showed back up and went back n forth from our porch an under the steps., before bed I looked out and he was alseep on our porch.. and when i woke up wends morn he was still in front of the house. so we coax him in our car and took him to a vet to be checked for a chip. he dose not have one.. so I been putting a daily ad up on craiglist both pets and lost and found.. I put add up on our local freecycle about found dog. just in case the owners use Freecycle. I also have posters made to go up today at the stores and gas stations in the area, and I called our local animal control to see if someone called and they said they dont take missing dog reports and no one's called about a dog in the past week... on top of that if he's from our neiborhood, he's tied to our front porch so anyone who pass's the house can see him in the yard.

when i spoke to animal control they said giving it till the 1st is a fair amount of time to seek his owners. and if no one shows up I could claim him as ours. .

I'm assuming he was a drop off. as a girl up the road who is also on my fb, said she's been seeing the same dog for at least 1- 2 weeks wandering up at her end of teh street 1 mile up the road, so he's been out for at least 2-3 weeks. and poor thing is only around 3 months old. now i set cat food out at night for the 3 strays that hang in the woods around my house.. and I assumed they were the one's knocking the dish to the center of the yard all this time.. when it may have just been him. and he coulda choose my house beacuse he's been finding food there and thinking its his.. and his house lol.

but our animal control would not have done anything about it.. I tryed to call them first. and they said unless he bit someone they'd not respond.. I called the next day when he came back and they said they had no one avail to come get him. try again tomarrow.. so I gave up. and we decided to keep him with us, it was that or just let him roam free and possibly get hit by cars on the main road 2 houses down from my house.

[collin2]

Hi! Anyone here from the Cap Coast, Queensland ??
My dog went missing around Christmas -