Dog found in Daegu - URGENT HELP NEEDED

Okay, my original comment was answered, but when it got moved to the "blog" section, th answer seems to have been deleted.
I would agree that the best thing to do is to try and find the owner if at all possible. I completely understand how you feel at this point. I've been through it once before. The "how to help a stray" section can help you with suggestions.
Hopefully someone can help you out in terms of a temp. home while you look for the owners. If no one comes to claim her within the next few weeks, then hopefully she can be fostered by someone nearby and adopted.

Please don't "let her go" as in back on the street or to a shelter - please take her to the nearest vet and keep on advocating for her! In situations like this often all that is needed is a little time. I think vets are supposed to keep the dog for 10 days.

I shared this on FB and had 2 friends share too, but for some reason it said access denied. I have shared once again so hopefully people will be able to see this.

Don't some veterinarians take stray dogs for a time? Or what about taking her to a shelter in Daegu? Anyone in Daegu?

Clare got to this first!

OK please hang on a little longer!

I will ask my Korean friend to write "please take me to the nearest vet/animal hospital" in Korean. You could print it or use someone's smart phone and show it to a taxi driver. I'll get back to you soon!

OK here it is!

"가장 가까운 동물병원까지 데려다주세요"

Please hop in a taxi and take the little one there. Then please get their business card (which usually has a map on it) and see if you can upload the pic onto here. From there we can have a little more time to try and make a plan!

Please also ensure that they KEEP her for the 10 days and do NOT euthanize her or send her to a shelter but rather call you first. I'm SURE we can find someone to foster her!

Thank you for picking her up!

Hi again,

ARK members on Facebook say the following:

Guillian
My vet sends to the pound that day or the next day. :(

Katherine
Not all vets keep them ten days. The 24 hour vet got two dogs dropped off in a box. Sent them to KARAMA the next day. Be very careful to make sure they know someone is coming for this dog in ten days.

Damn it!! Anyway, we can only do what we can do. :( Please try get the vet to understand that you are working on a solution and we WILL find that dog somewhere to go within 10 days!

You can give them my number for now, I'll PM it to you. It won't help much though because I can't speak Korean...! >.<

Where exactly are you in Daegu? What's your nearest subway stop?

This is a list of English speaking vets in Daegu:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=152379891495250

I have some free time, so if you need some help I could come collect you and the pup, then we could go to the vets together.

Can someone tell me how to go about this with a vet, getting them to take her for a little while? There's no way I could afford to pay a vet bill right now, so I don't want them to think I'm carting the bill. (I feel pretty sleezy saying that, but I'm officially unemployed and living on savings at this point.)

Hey, that's great news!
You had a hard time of it, but it's really wonderful that you did so much. It's too bad your principal wasn't more understanding or more helpful. I think it's great that you kept at it, even when things were tough.

Wonderful all round! Lets keep working on her homing!

So, now what? I heard someone's already stepped up as a possible foster.

Awesome work guys! Thanks for taking the pup in barkera719 :) Thanks for offering your help megs! Totally cool! I hope the vet will be able to search the lost/found pages. Maybe this little one has a family who is missing her.

The vet sounds great and so kind that he will treat her for free. We need more like that!

Today I was in Dongcheon for paperwork, so I went over to HomePlus to visit little Mocha.

Mocha is doing really well. The vet wasn't there, but two of his assistants were. Little Mocha follows one of them in particular like a little shadow.
When I first walked in, she was really excited to see me, sniffed my hand, and immediately backed away to hide.
The assistant said I could come past the gate, and I did. Then I sat down in a chair and waited for Mocha to come over. She came over to sniff me again, but ran back to "mommy" and did a kind of "huff" - not really a bark or a growl.
I sat in the chair for a while. There were two toy poodles being held by a Korean man. Mocha ran over to investigate a sound or some such thing, and one of the poodles saw her and started barking her fool head off. Mocha freaked out and ran back to "mommy."
A Korean mother and her daughter brought a poodle pup in for some such thing, and Mocha was super excited to sniff the poodle pup, then ran to hide and was scared. The pup mostly ignored her, as she was whining and crying for her girl. Mocha was pretty terrified, though, trembling like a leaf.
Her "mommy" asked me about Mocha's story, and I explained. She reassured me and said not to worry, Mocha had a home there. She often held and kissed Mocha and spoke to her in Korean. Whenever she walked from one end of the room to the other, Mocha was at her heels, looking up at her and very happy.
Mocha's vet assistant mommy told me that she's about 10 mo. to a year. She's still quite a little fuzzball, and she smells like shampoo from a recent bath.
She has free run of a large tiled area, and the vet assistant leaves out food and water and a pee pad.
At one point, the vet assistant put her in my lap (Mocha wasn't interested in coming over to me/was scared to come over) and Mocha stayed there, but she was extremely tense. After about 5 minutes she wanted down.
It seems to me like she's got a lot of energy and love to give, but she's terrified of dogs and people alike. However, considering she just got to the vet yesterday, it seems like she warms up pretty quick.
The vet assistant was a really kind woman. She asked me if I would visit again, and I said yes. She seemed pretty happy about that. Also, I noticed that they kept those cranky old poodles away from Mocha while they were waiting for their owner. Mocha got the lion's share of room to run, they got a decent-sized pen in the middle of the floor.
So all in all, I think it's an excellent place for Mocha to be at the moment, because they really seem to care about the animals and want to protect them.