Guilty as Charged.. Savage Beast Lover

My American Bulldog, pictured above as a puppy, got out of our fence the other day. He went running up to a woman and her husband who were doing yardwork and proceeded to show them his affection in the form of many licks and tail wagging. They put him in their home and then called the Animal Control for our city. So as my husband and I are frantically searching for our dog everywhere, who turned a year old today, he was being booked in the doggy pen. We couldn't find him because he was inside someone's house!!! When DJ and I exhausted everywhere we thought he could be we rested into a fitful sleep of nightmares and worries of poor little Myson being stuck outside in the freezing cold and lost. We hoped he would find his way home in the next day or two and being the weekend I had to work every night and my husband was out bar hopping. Not exactly what I pictured a saddened father with a lost baby would be doing either but to each his own.
Finally today I headed to the animal shelter in hopes that someone had called saying they had a lonely, lost dog at their house. I walked into the shelter and the woman told me I could look around while she checked their call logs. As I walk into the back, with dogs frantically barking at me, I see one who is sitting there not barking like the others but with the saddest puppy eyes I have ever seen. Of course it is my dog and as if in a movie I fall to my knees in front of his cage and try to pet him throuh the bars. I stand up and march out to the lobby right up to the woman and say "My dog is here.. I want him back right now. Today is his birthday and he looks miserable." After being issued tickets and paying puppy bond I hear birds chirping and music playing as my dog is led out to me.
As Myson and I drive home with his head hanging out the window and his ears blowing back all I can think about is how worth every penny I just spent to get him out of that shelter and back home with us was. Yet I have to think about all those sweet animals who don't have someone to take them home. How sad it would be to know that nobody out there is missing you! So I have to ask everyone:
Would you adopt a dog from a shelter instead of going and finding a puppy?