Thanks everyone. I have spare collars in the house and if Merlin should come by for dinner tonight I am going to put one on him with a note asking if he belongs to anyone to please call me.

I have a friend at work who has been helping at a shelter for quite some time and she informed me that she is planning on opening her own shelter. She is in the process of buying a 40 acre farm so she has offered to help me out and I'm hoping that she may be willing to help socialize Merlin. I know that if she will take him in...I will have him fixed (as I do with all of mine) and I will most certainly visit to help socialize Merlin and when the time comes take him back to our new home.