Day of the Beagles

So, I get a phone call from my dad around 8:00 am on Sunday morning and he says "I'm not quite sure what to do but we've got problems over here". This usually means that something in their house, like a hot water heater, has broken and they need some help, so I was immediately alarmed until he got to the next sentence, which was "We have two beagle puppies over here". What? Where did they get beagle puppies? Apparently, when my mom let their dog, Jake, outside in the morning, there were two little dogs looking into their fenced yard. She brought them in so that they wouldn't get hit by a car or anything since they live on a corner, but neither one of them had tags on (they had collars though, so she knew they had to be someone's pets). I decided to wake Mark up and I can't remember the last time he got out of bed so fast! He absolutely LOVES beagles and would love to get another dog. They were really cute, but smelly! We ended up spending about 1/2 the day driving the dogs to a vet to see if they were microchipped, posting signs up all over town that we had found dogs, and calling various animal shelters, etc. Mom had already called the police to let them know that she found them. We finally got a phone call around 3:30 pm from the owners of the dogs, so they were able to be returned to their rightful owners! Thank goodness! Mark already had it all planned out that we would take one home and that my mom & dad would keep the other one, so I'm sure he was somewhat disappointed that they really lived just a few houses down the street from my mom & dad. It sure was fun playing with the puppies though -- they were so sweet! :)