Dachshunds on the Loose

Last weekend, Saturday around noon, I came across a couple of Dachshunds running across a busy five lane road.  It was a really busy road on that day, because UA's Crimson Tide was going to play Texas A&M.  Everyone was out getting their errands out of the way in time for the game, and this was the reason I was out too.  So, seeing these guys running amok in traffic alarmed me, and I made it my personal quest to corral the Dachshunds away from the road, and to catch them, so I could return them to their owner.  It took at least an hour, and I know I looked like a crazy lady.  I am in jeans, running against traffic, trying to get to the pups, before they get to the road again.  I made it, and I am not embellishing, I made it just as their little paws were about to step out in front of a truck.  I stomped real hard, because that was all the time I had, and luckily it turned them in the other direction.  At this point, I was invested, because, well, everyone looked at me as the crazy lady running into the direction of traffic, and I had to prove to myself I was not crazy.  Yes, I am still working on that one.  Anyways,  I finally got the little rascals rounded up, and got them home with the help of my husband.  I put up a crate in the back yard, and they curled up and went to sleep in the crate.  They looked so tired, and they were truly wonderful pups.  So, my husband and I decided to ride around the local neighborhoods to search for lost and found signs, since we did not find anything electronically.  In an amazing turn of events, we actually found a sign in one of the neighborhoods with the pups mugs on it, and the right phone number.  I did not mention the tag had a wrong number on it.  This person had just moved to Alabama, and was beside herself knowing her pups were lost with a tag and a wrong number on the tags.  This brought back memories of when my dogs dug out of the back yard, and I had just moved too.  My dogs tags were wrong, and the lady who found my dogs went the extra mile to find me.  It felt really good to reunite the pups with their owner.  Sometimes, you will get put out if you want to do nice things, but the rewards of showing you care outweigh anything else including a college football game.