“cher owners found: her under 28 — Sunday, August 15, 1999 - North Shore News Human’s name: Catrina Steacy, age 64. Pet’s names and ages: Zoe is a 7-year-old rottweiller-Lab cross. Favourite activities: Zoe and . -Gatrina met when Catrina -was a baby and the dog immediately. became. protec- _tive towards ‘her. They like to “play fetch, and although Zoe ‘is “slowing : down now,: she used to let Catrina chase her and sit on her. - ~ Favourite treat: McDonald's - French fries and dog biscuits. | Pet tale: After searching for: ~ Zoe. for more than an hou;, promptly headed . straight ack to the house, where she “tracked black oil -the porch, where she'd found « throughout. . “Some: oil to play | in. She it you would like to appear - with your pet in Pet Pause, stains please write to Terry Peters c/o the North Shove. News, 1139 Lonsdale -_ Ave., North Vancouver, B.C., V7M 2H4. Or send . ‘e-mail - to . : satay "escape the: whi : 4X4 racin : veway, Born free... except for de THE sun was just coming up over the mountains when I set out for an early morn- ing run with Harley, my German shorthair pointer. Apparently, such early morning rituals are not in my doberman Alex’s con- tract. As we came around a corner, I noticed 2 large black mass lying in the mid- dle of a patch of grass at the side of the road. I slowed my pace, hoping that it was a garbage bag carelessly thrown from a car during the night. - But it wasn’t. It. was a”. large black dog. As Harley and 1 approached, it was obvious this dog was not alive.’ We got within five fect of ; , is hiding the dog and Harley stopped in his tracks. He didn’t want to go any further so he turned his back and tried’ to make for. home. ‘ - Sceing a dead dog has Growing up on a farm - and watching my own dog . get hit bya * car. did. noth- ing to desen- -- sitize me. “ Ifany- thing, it may’, . have made i it worse: I'd. seen the fear | ” walk. gs an casy chair in the living room, watching .TV. The dog. continues to ‘bark as she follows us for.” another block. ‘An incredibly submissive shepherd-cross peps out of: the bushes on yet another: ° She dances in the iniddle ', of the road trying to incite’, my two ‘leashed dogs to play. with her. : I calf her off. the oad and look to see if an:owner in.the bushes from where she caine: °°", Do the owners of thesé “dogs have no regard fo » their dogs’ safety? Or/are. ’ these dogs the Houdinis of - the canine world? _ always greatly disturbed me." in his cyes as he hopelesl “¢ tried to drag his broken: body. off the road, and the > confiised expression as his: head bobbed side to side; | -. blindly searching. for a face that he recognized before the lights. went.out..-: “Today; I-hoped/as I ran: home, that the black dog, “ died: instantly. : Where I live, nea Lynn a; there are . fair T have seen. her narrowly s of a large : dowir the ‘street . When [pull into my‘dri I am sometimes met dogs I suppose this dog. doe. the.same thing at other peo es homes, likely | s f smight have liked dogs. “Thefe is «: Dalmatian "another walk who charges « ‘out of her front yard while barking and growlin: : he owner. sitting ‘i he dog i all Wy the ncighbourhoo * possible’ harm:to: peopl ‘other dogs; the: lett ers or therasel ane abouit k eping”: ‘safe-behind a ecure of if thes