The story begins on Thursday the 26th, when two faculty members at TSU called HCSR to help in retrieving a stray cavalier mix.  It had been roaming the campus for over a month and became known as Elizabeth Taylor. Everyone from the students, police, maintenance, faculty and staff tried to catch it.  With no luck, everyone resorted to just making sure it got daily meals.  Thursday was our first attempt to catch this little darling.  Well… that proved to be unsuccessful fast as she turned out to be very smart in dodging any of our advances.  So we tried again on Friday with some more help from friends, and running shoes:)   Day 2 faired the no better as we were not able to catch her.   Leaving very disappointed, we brainstormed all night on some creative ideas to trick this little speed racer.   We came even more prepared on day 3 with more equipment and on our bikes! Third time’s the charm…right?  Well it was… as we caught it!!   Turns out “it” was a lovely little girl!   No one knew because no one could get close enough.   She was beyond frightened but surprisingly was VERY sweet and did not even try to bite us.   As we let her calm down and realize what had just happened…she seemed to pick up on the fact she was caught and we were good people.  We untangled her from the netting, slipped on a leash and went on our merry way!   High fiving each other nonetheless… we were so pumped!!   First thing we did was take her over to Harry’s dog wash to get her all cleaned up.  She was covered in fleas, lots of mats and she smelled like a homeless bum.  By the way, through the whole process, she was such a sweetheart and just took it all in stride.  The rest of the day we spent at home hanging out and playing.  She absolutely had to have some part of her 22-pound body touching us.  She loved the affection.  Chloe would like to thank HCSR (especially Ana and Derick) for all their help in trying to catch her and she is sorry for being so difficult:)

That’s not all… Chloe (real name “Hanna”) has been reunited with her owner!  Thanks to her microchip, we were able to contact her Dad. He was very happy and relieved that his little companion had been found….she had escaped out of his yard about 6 weeks ago.   She’s a curious little thing and wanted to explore but never made it back home.  Hanna was happy to see her Dad and wagged her tail as we all called her by her real name:)   What an emotional adventure!