Missed Connection — Puppy Rescue on Capitol Hill

photo by Jeanette.Cook

Update: “I’m not the cute guy from the bike, but I found this puppy. She was hiding under a truck on C street. I had my dog with me, but I put her on the pole next to me. I had to get fully under the truck to get to the puppy. Fortunately a very helpful woman stopped who had an extra leash with her. We were able to leash the dog. I then called the number on the tag, and the owner answered immediately. Apparently she’s been looking for her pup for a long time. They were reunited and the pup is safe at home!”

“Dear PoPville,

Tuesday morning on my very mundane, typically uneventful walk to work on C street NE in Capitol Hill, a puppy on the lose darted in front of me. Coming down the sidewalk shortly after the pup was a man on a bike, who then noticed the lost dog, took off after it, and enlisted the police officer standing by to help him in the chase.

I was late to a meeting, so I had to lay aside my eagerness to take off running and join the growing search and rescue team. But the question loomed all day–who was the mysterious heroic man on the bike?!

There aren’t many people in DC willing to divert away from their job and over-committed schedule to help someone else, so might as well take my chances to find them when I see them… right?

If nothing else, I would sleep a lot better this week if I could just hear that the little lost pup was found.”

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