our stories: PETS
Homeward
Bound
~ The Great Escape ~
Bogey
River
Pups
BY KATIE RODGERS
MAY 2016
PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
“Happiness is a Partner in Crime”
It is said that everyone has a partner in crime, even dogs.
This is especially true for the young lab mix dogs that some
kind-hearted soul retrieved and brought into the Weatherford/Parker County Animal Shelter. The Good Samaritan
found the three pups (probably dumped) and brought them
in as strays on April 2.
Volunteers at the shelter determined the dogs to be a
year and a half old at the least, maybe two. All three of
them are described as extremely friendly. From their colors
and ages the shelter’s staff decided that they were all most
likely from the same litter. All was well until two days later
when a staff member came in to check on the animals
and found only one dog and two empty cages. Somehow,
during the night, two of the litter mates had conspired and
escaped from the shelter without a trace.
“I think one of them got out and broke the other one
out,” said Kenzie Montgomery of the WPCAS, joking about
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the incident.
It was a strange sight indeed, and left the shelter staffers baffled as to how they had managed to escape such
a secure cell. They were also sad at the loss of the two
potential adoptions.
However, the very next day, Kelly Kirkwood was
walking at Holland Lake Park and stumbled upon the two
runaways. She noticed they were quite skinny, and a little
skittish. Unwilling to let the sweet dogs risk getting hit by a
car, she called her husband, who brought food and water
up to the park for the dogs.
They weren’t too shy at the smell of food, and the
kindly Kirkwoods were able to coax the dogs out of the
bushes.
“They came out immediately, and we got them in the
car and took them to the animal shelter,” Kevin Kirkwood
told PCT.