When pets disappear in District, they often end up at the Washington Humane Society’s New York Avenue shelter.
It’s the only congressionally chartered animal welfare agency in the country, with more than 8,500 pets impounded there in the past year -- including a rambunctious 2-year-old shih tzu/French bulldog mix named Zoey.
Zoey ran off one day with a collar and leash still attached, said her owner, Brandi Crawley.
"We put an ad on Craigslist,” Crawley said. “We got a phone call. ‘Oh, I found your dog and I took her to the shelter.’"
When Crawley called, the shelter told her they didn’t have Zoey. After several days of calling and emailing to no avail, Crawley’s boyfriend went to the shelter just to make sure. He found Zoey in a cage in the shelter’s holding area.
"I stuck my hand through the fence and pet Zoey,” he recalls. “I told her everything is going to be OK and that she was coming home soon."
But Zoey didn’t go home.
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If Michelle Obama would wait and travel to Hawaii when her husband does the mooney saved could by the upgraded software for dozens of Animal Shelters in the District.. But thats for the little people, isn't it.
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