Santa Paws

Today on the way home from the horse stable, this big goofy old golden retriever came up to me slowly. So, well I let him/her sniff me and I pet him for a couple minutes and told him to go home and gave him some pats and pointed back to the barn. (nobody was around so I was hoping he would hang out at the barn till someone came) So I then kept on walking to my house, and when I heard some feet behind me I turned around and realized she was trailing right behind me as if I was her owner or she knew me, she was all smiles and looked so happy. So I stopped and pet her head and turned her to the barn and pretended to go run at the barn so she would take off. Well she took a few strides and turned to see if i was still coming and since I wasn't she came right back for me. She ended up walking right by my side all the way home.
Well since this isn't MY home, I couldn't take her inside. So I told him to 'sit' and 'stay' and the dog did sit down and look at me. So I went inside to go get Nik the 20 year old that I live with, and told him I had a friend outside. Then I put my coat away and let Dora one of the dogs here out to pee and went out to see the golden and she was gone.
She looked really old, like 8 or 9 years old. Her fur was such a light gold she was almost white.
So now I'm hoping shes going to wander home, and stay off the road.