New dog?

This morning I went for a run in College Station from my house. It was actually in the 60's, which was amazing. Over half way through the run, I noticed a woman and a dog ahead of me on the sidewalk. Then as I approached, the woman turned at a block and the dog, who was off-leash, was distracted by me and followed me. The woman didn't turn to see what was going on with the dog, and the dog continued to follow me, so I realized that the dog had just been following her, too.

This dog was clearly really excited about its situation, and therefore had clearly escaped from its home. When I crossed the road and the dog absently followed me across despite on-coming traffic, I realized that I needed to take the dog into my custody and try to find its owner. I didn't have my phone with me and I was at least a mile from home, so I picked up the dog (which was very calm in my arms and awfully sweet) and went over to a mini mart that was nearby. I asked the owner about calling someone to help with the dog, like animal control. He looked it up on his phone and found that the group doesn't open until 11am and it was about 8am. Eventually, I left my phone number with the shop owner and got a makeshift leash so that I wouldn't have to carry the dog the whole way back. The dog had a collar but no tags.

We made it back and, fortunately, by the time we made it, I had received a call from the owner, who had stopped by the mini mart. Otherwise I had no idea what I was going to do with the dog. He immediately came over to retrieve Miles, who, while a very nice dog, was a bit too much on the adventurous side and had escaped from not only his own home (pulling off his tags in the process) but also his neighbors yard when they had found him and put him there. The owner had been looking for Miles for 12 hours and was very glad to see him.

Miles