Mount Evans means hope

a good loving heart. She has a heart of gold.” ose on social media in the foothills know how common it is both for dogs to escape their homes and for them to be reunited with their owners. her back to Sedalia where she was in through, she’s so fascinating,” Wilson said of Clover. “She jumped up on me like she was excited to see me. She’s extremely fearful but has

Wilson gures that Clover didn’t lose much weight because she came to the rescue already underweight after being in the puppy mill, and while she had gained weight at the rescue, she still was accustomed to not eating a lot.

Ann Brown, the Evergreen Animal Protective League’s lost and found volunteer coordinator, said the nonpro t gets fewer calls about lost or found animals because people use social media more often for that purpose.

People need to pay attention to their animals, never assuming they will do what they normally do such as stay around the house because they can get distracted or decide to chase an animal, she said. Underground electric fences are not a panacea because something could be enticing enough to dogs that they are willing to experience the shock to go across the fence line.

Brown has been able to match up animals with their owners by paying attention to social media posts.

EAPL provides tags to animal owners that are available at Chow Down in Bergen Park and Buster’s in Aspen Park. EAPL keeps information on the animal and pet owners in a database, and someone who nds an animal with an EAPL tag can call EAPL to get the owner’s information. e good news, she added, is most animals in the foothills are reunited with their owners.