Good Day

Today was a great day! I did well on my quiz for parasitology and had an interesting day. 

This morning I was excited to receive a forwarded email from by boyfriend stating his acceptance to  the teaching credential program at UC Davis. I'm so proud of him, he finished his application on time, did extremely well in interviews and did the majority of it all by himself!

Fate happened today when a classmate and I decided to go to Jamba Juice after parasitology lab to break in our new Jamba cards that give 10% of our purchase back to our vet school class. On our drive to Jamba Juice, we passed a dog on the side of the road in someone's front yard. There did not appear to be an owner anywhere near the dog, but we figured someone must have let their dog out in their yard. His coat stood out to us, he was somewhat of an Aussie mix, and since we'd recently been going over coat coloring in our veterinary genetics class, we mentioned we should try to figure out what colors we would have to cross to end up with his particular coat color. We didn't think anything of the dog on the rest of the way to Jamba Juice or even while we were at Jamba Juice. We ordered our smoothies and sat inside talking for a while about class and life in general. 

As we were leaving, we saw the same dog we had seen earlier in the car sitting right in front of Jamba Juice! We have no idea how he happened to make his way about a quarter of a mile to Jamba Juice crossing a very busy road.

We found a spare leash in the car and took him into the veterinary clinic next to Jamba Juice, which is actually a "cat clinic" to scan for a microchip. He had a leather collar on, but no ID. We couldn't locate a microchip, so we were back to square one. Who owned this lovely dog? He was not neutered, but he was very friendly and beautiful. Since he was freshly groomed, we decided to see if the dog groomers at PetCo might know him. 

They recognized him as we walked in the door and wondered where we found him. They contacted his owner who showed up less than five minutes later. Funny thing is, the dog's owner was one of my undergraduate professors at UC Davis. What a small world! This had to be fate that this dog found us and we returned him to his loving owner!