On my way walking home from the store, I saw a lost loose dog. She
was clearly petrified and exhausted. I just so happened to stop at the
McD's to pick up 3 plain hamburgers for my dogs, so I thought I would
try to give her one to see if I could get her to come by me. I called
311 right away. She started to run and took off towards
North Ave. She ran in the middle of North, and then so did I. I tried
blocking traffic because this poor girl was going to get hit. She had no
concept of what cars are. She almost got hit by the moving cars many times, myself
included
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| The street you see in the background is the very busy North Ave |
She then turned and started to run down the middle of Kedzie Ave and I
tried blocking all that traffic too. I followed her. I had to make sure
she didn't get hit. I finally was able to get her to go into Humboldt
Park. She eventually laid down out of exhaustion and I made sure to keep
my distance. I had called the cops when i was running down North and
they told me not to block traffic. Yeah right, I'm not letting a dog get
killed. I put in about 10 calls to 311. I put the hamburger down and
walked away and sat down. She finally walked over and ate it. I did this
4 times. I remained sitting and slowly moved towards her little by
little. Finally I was sitting next to her. I sat in the mud with this
dog for 3 hours. I called the CACC dispatch and told them I had been
waiting for over 3 hours for help. They told me they would not be coming
out. They had been busy all morning with picking up injured dogs and
only had 1 truck. I cried my eyes out.
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| Bolognia scared, but finally approaching the hamburger |
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| Bolognia resting from exhaustion in Humboldt Park |
I obviously called my person who is my best friend in the world
Melissa and balled my eyes out. I told her I was meant to see this dog
for a reason. Obviously, I was meant to help her. But why wasn't the man
upstairs sending the troops my way to help? How could I sit with her
for all these hours and then walk away from her? Then I would be failing
her too. I called 911 and told them that I couldn't get help. They said
they would send an officer. Officer Rodriguez came out and we spoke. He
was going to go back to the station to see if he could get a leash.
Well Melissa shared my post that I put on facebook. When I was sitting
with the dog, this guy walked up with a dog noose and some pupparonis. I
had the dog taking treats and eating out of my hands. The clouds were
finally disappearing. Ron had seen Melissa's shared post and he drove
all the way out from Brookfield to help.
We sat out there for a few more
hours gaining her trust. Finally, we knew we just had to do it. Ron got
up and tried to noose her. She barked at him to back off and he didn't.
So she sat down and let him put the noose around her. My gosh, I was so
relieved.
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| Ron who was able to noose Bolognia |
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| Heather (Founder & President) of WTRF, finally enjoying some stress free time with Bolognia |
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I ran home to get a chip scanner and then ran back to the
park. No chip. She clearly also had a litter at some point. I also
bought some bologne at the corner store to entice her to get her in the
car. We ended up staying at the park for an additional 2 hours and
finally just picked her up and put her in. She loves to be petted. She
is the sweetest thing ever. She loves head pets and belly rubs and she
takes bologne and treats from your hand nicely. Ron ended up taking Bologna home until we could find her a temporary home in a No Kill Rescue so she could be put up for adoption.
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| Licking her chops from all the Bologna we tried to bribe her with. Hence how she got her name, Bolognia |
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| Exhausted and getting some much needed Zzzzz at Ron's house |
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| Getting along with Ron's pack right away |
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