When Wild Dogs Attack

So I'm driving home from work, on my way to pick up my poor pooch who has been living at the doggie hotel this week while I gallivant around the country. I'm in downtown Dallas--actually, the "Oak Lawn" area, which is a nicer emerging neighborhood. I am at the corner of a fairly large intersection, waiting to turn left.

Across the road, I see a dog, then two, then three. The dogs all look similar: brown fur, long, sharp noses, tall, pointy ears. They are poking around the hedges at the corner, which help enclose a small parking lot for the business there. I strain my eyes, looking for their owner, as these well behaved dogs are not on leashes yet seem to be quite restrained and well behaved.

As I pull into the intersection and begin to turn, a puppy who looks like the dogs emerges from the hedge near the road. I get a full view of five dogs, one very pregnant, standing tall with not a single human in sight and not a dog collar to be seen.

Wild dogs?! In Dallas?! I didn't know such a thing actually existed in real life.

Random.