It's Friday evening and almost time to close for the day. This is a new venture for me, as I am launching the first set of stories from our animal shelter here in beautiful Eureka Springs, Arkansas. I hope to post a story every week to tell people about all the fun, adventurous, and challenging events taking place in our extraordinarily ordinary animal shelter.
It's almost a full moon, and almost Halloween, and the dogs and cats all seem to know it! We have some adorable live wires in our care. This afternoon, two of our girls decided to go on a "holiday" for about an hour. Corina and Caroline are pointer/basset hound mixes. Both are white with black spots, and they both weigh about 70 pounds. They have great personalities, and they are usually quite well-behaved, but today, they decided to remove the door from their kennel cage--literally. They somehow managed to pull the door off the hinges. They then went roaming about for about an hour, but then they finally decided they were hungry and came trotting back out of the woods! After drooling all over the staff, the girls went straight to their kennels and munched on dinner.
While escapes are not a normal event for our shelter,they can happen. It is always scary, because the dogs--or cats--can get hurt or lost. Most times a dog escapes by pushing through an outdoor kennel fence or crawling over. One of our active goals here at the shelter is to raise funds for new outside kennels and to upgrade the kennels in the back of the shelter. I also have a dream of building a longer dog run, so that the big dogs can get more exercise.
Check back with us on a regular basis and keep up with all the happenings at Good Shepherd Humane Society.
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