I wasn't able to afford the annual vaccines for my dog so I took advantage of an event that our local Humane Society has where they give the first 1000 people free vaccines. They started at 9:00 a.m. and I didn't have a car so I had to arrange for a ride that wasn't always reliable and then the morning of the event the temperature in Tampa dropped to 56° so it seemed like the odds were against me on getting to this event I really wanted and needed to get to. Thankfully I made it and they still hadn't reached 1,000 yet so we were able to get the shots as well as some freebies like treats and doggie bags and leashes. On our way home there was a dog running back and forth in traffic and I was totally unaware of it because I was totally spoiling my own furbaby for being a good girl the whole morning. My friend who was driving stomped on the brake and I saw the dog who crossed our car and was running into the next lane where the driver also tried to avoid hitting him and went around him. I jumped out of the car and thank God the dog had a fabric studded collar on and I was able to hold it while I asked my friend to pass me the leash we had coincidentally I just gotten for free at the event. I didn't want to pull on the collar of the dog because it wasn't really interested in moving from where it was standing in the street. I attached the leash and walked to the closest Street which wasn't in the best part of Tampa. Every house had bars on the windows and doors and the street was empty except for two little black boys who were riding their bikes. I knocked on the first house and the home owner refused to open the door and told me nobody on that street had dogs except for a lady three houses down and all her dogs were small and she didn't own the dog I had leashed. It sounded strange that she was so positive that nobody had a dog on that street but when I approached the little boys on their bikes they said the same thing and then asked if they could get the dog and if she bit. I told them I wasn't sure and I didn't want to find out and they said they would ask their sister for help who came outside and said she didn't know where the dog belonged and she didn't own the house she was at and she couldn't help me. The entire time my friend was pulled off to the side of the road with my dog who was getting very impatient and vocal and I told him I wanted to check the street on the opposite side of the road because it might have come from there and he was leaning more towards just leaving the dog in the neighborhood since it was at least off the highway where there was tons of traffic. I couldn't leave the poor thing like that so I was headed towards the other side of the road when I spotted a man coming my way and asked if he knew where the dog possibly came from and he said he didn't know bit he would take her. We were still a good half hour away from home so I was pretty thankful that he took her because at least she was off the street where she was almost hit a few times and someone who lived around there could find her owners or do something with her. I came back to the car and told my friend that a man took her and the two little kids on the bikes had made their way to our car by then to play with my pug while I was trying to help the other dog and when I said who I gave the dog to they immediately knew who I was talking about and said "You mean that baser? You gave the dog to the baser?". They couldn't have been older than 6 or 7 but it kind of caught me off guard that they said that because I wasn't expecting that and one of the kids shook his head disapprovingly but the important thing was the dog was off the road and not running through cars. I felt pretty proud that I was able to get the dog off the road even though I couldn't find her owners. It wasn't until I got back in the car and we started driving again that my friend told me that the car next to us had actually hit it when it tried to stop. Poor thing, I hope the baser found the owners or at least made sure the dog went somewhere safe or took it to someone who could care for it.