On Saturday Mr R went running early and I decided I might as well get up at 6am and take Percy out to get started on the day.  But when I looked out the front window, Mr R was still standing outside on his phone.  I opened the door to ask in a slightly irritated way why he’d not got on with starting his 39 km run, because we needed to get a few things done before he and Stepson 2 went to the football at lunchtime …

‘I’ve found a dog’ he said. ‘I’m taking it’s photo’.

It turned out he was trying to post on the local facebook page that he’d found a dog, but he is not into social media and it was unlikely to get an immediate response so I told him to get going and called to the dog who floofed his way enthusiastically through the front door and turned many many circles in his happiness at (I assume) being inside.

Floof liked his circles.  He also liked the back garden.  And barking.  Percy was not keen, especially as this unexpected visitor was delaying his Saturday expedition.

I posted on the local facebook groups.  I think most locals were still asleep.

I stood at the front door incase anyone was out looking.

I put Floof on one of Percy’s leads and walked up and down the road in the hope he would show me where he lived.  He didn’t.

The vet opens at 8am so I popped Floof in a box on the passenger seat and we chatted about whether if his hooman couldn’t be found he’d be able to live with us.  Or perhaps one of my sisters.  Floof smiled a lot but I’m not sure he quite understood.

The vet nurse scanned him, he had a chip…but the chip was not registered on a UK data base.  The vets kept Floof and…to cut a long story short, his hooman did see my facebook post and he was picked up later in the day.  It turned out his hooman had come home drunk and left the door open long enough for Floof to go on a great adventure, ending outside Our Towers.

I rather liked Floof.  He was terribly smiley.  He probably wouldn’t have worked very well with our lifestyle though.  And I think Percy prefers the less fury brother option. Also, it turned out his name wasn’t Floof, which was slightly disappointing.  It was a different start to the weekend though 😁 (I’m hoping for a less floofy start to this weekend).