Has anyone ever saved a stray dog on a run???

One kitten a long time ago and two dogs that had been dumped together about three years ago. Fostered them until they were adopted.

Yes! Last summer, I found a dog wandering around a neighborhood with a leash still attached. I ran a couple laps around the neighborhood looking for someone outside to ask about the little fella. No one was out and the dog was too small to keep running so I carried him home. In the morning, I took him to the vet where someone scanned the dog's microchip and called his family.

Saved a dog who started following me up and down hill repeats. Fostered it until it got adopted.

I'm not a big animal activist or anything, but when I see someone mistreat a dog, I want to hurt them badly. I have 2 dogs and they are the most wonderful creatures to walk the earth. Dogs love their owners with every ounce of their soul and have more positive attributes than many humans I've met.

Yes...I can't believe I posted this over a decade ago:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&thread=970060&id=970799

I eventually found the dog a great home. I moved away from the area not long after that, and I often wonder how he's doing or if he's still living.

No, but I've kicked a few.

In the mid 70s, a group of us were running the Marlboro (Mass.) Marathon in late January or early February. Good weather for the day. Around the 18 to 20 mile mark we ran over a bridge with a river under it. One of my friends spotted a dog who had fallen though the ice. He and another person in the group went down the embankment and pulled the dog out. The dog (I believe it was a Irish setter0 ran with the group to the finish. We never saw the dog again.

One extremely overweight golden retriever that followed me, but could not keep up. This is not bragging, the dog was just that fat. I got to my driveway and started stretching and about 4 minutes later this poor thing comes barreling (think the boulder scene from Temple of Doom) down the trail into my cul de sac and laid down next to me. I called the number but didn't hear anything for two days. Finally heard from the owners who were out of town and had a friend watching the dog when it got out.

Also, last year I was running down a trail and found a chicken. A hundred yards later I found a sign on a fence that said "lost chicken, dozen egg reward". So I rescued a chicken and got some eggs.

My brother found a dog on the sidewalk a half mile away from our home that was cold (it was winter), skinny as hell, and unable to walk. It was some sort of German Shepherd mix.

He carried it home where we kept it warm and gave it food for a few days. Then we took it to the vet and they said it had a long long list of issues and was likely 10+ years old, so we unfortunately had to put it down.

Sad day. That dog was scared as hell but it definitely seemed happy to have been found, fed, and kept warm as opposed to dying outside alone.

About 5 years ago when I was still running I picked up a dog that had gotten out of its yard. I was just starting my run and saw the dog on the street. He had a collar with a license on it but no other info. I decided to carry him back to my car and call the local animal services from my cell phone. Unfortunately this was my first time running at this park in many years and did not know that they ended up fencing off the whole middle section. My planned shortcut through the middle became an agonizing walk around the park carrying the dog as he got heavier and heavier in my arms.

Once back at my car I was placed on hold by the phones automatic service and watched the last few minutes of my battery die out. Luckily there was a sheriff station inside the park. At the station the officer and I went through two books that listed all the dog licenses in the city.....in alphabetical street order, but we finally found the owner.

Dog followed me home on a run.

One of our neighbors eventually found the owner.

She left the dog in the street because he wasn't getting along with her other dog.

Still have him today