By Elizabeth Hart
THE two-year-old golden retriever sniffed every car that pulled into the Nar Nar Goon service station.
Forlorn and alone, he walked away every time from anyone who tried to approach him.
When people tried, he would shy away, hang his head, and wait for the next car in the hope it was his owner.
By the time Ian and Lisa McColl pulled in for petrol, the dog was no closer to making friends and every bit as faithful to the idea that his owner would turn up.
“We coaxed him eventually by asking a child to pat him,” Ian said.
Lisa, a MICA paramedic, had had a rough time on the weekend. She was tired from the unsurpassed demand for emergency services as the injury toll from the heat and the fires soared.
But the couple could not leave the nameless dog behind. They loaded him into their car and took him to their Nar Nar Goon home.
The vet could find no microchip.
The fretting dog refused to eat and refused to allow anyone near him. The docile, sad eyes told most of the story, but not enough of the story to enable anyone to locate the owner.
By Monday afternoon, the dog had taken water and a morsel of food.
Ian and Lisa are caring for him. The whereabouts of his owner at the time the Gazette went to press was still unknown.
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