This story was submitted by Palmer, one of our wonderful volunteers.
My wife, Cherri, and I volunteer through NYCares to volunteer at Bobbi and the Strays. We went over to the Vetport a few short months ago to meet Bobbi, Laura, and a couple other people that work at BATS. We got the lowdown on the place and all procedures.
Since we were there we volunteered to walk some of the dogs. While we were there one of Bobbi’s many volunteers, Jean, showed up with a beautiful large white Husky-looking dog (we think it is a Korean breed called a Jindo). She had found the dog wandering on Springfield Boulevard dodging cars. She pulled over, followed it to an abandoned construction site where a homeless woman helped her grab the dog and get it in her car. She arrived at Bobbi and the Strays around 9:30pm.
We were all smitten with this giant white dog. He was very calm, barely hungry, and in good shape. Everyone thought he must belong to someone and simply wandered away. Since we knew where the dog was found Bobbi suggested that it would be helpful to put up some flyers to try to track down the owners. Cherri and I volunteered. So the next day we went back to BATS took a photo of the dog and came home and made a poster. We then drove to area the dog was found (around Springfield Gardens High School in Queens).
We put up a bunch of posters and then asked some kids if they had ever seen the dog. One of them said that the dog might belong to the local firehouse (Ladder Company 158). We walked over to the firehouse and rang the bell and when we showed the poster to one of the firemen he said “It’s Bighead!”
The dog had gotten out of their yard a couple days ago. They completely identified it. They called BATS and picked up Bighead that day. Cherri and I were rewarded with some firehouse shirts, one which we gave to Jean and another to Bobbi. We called Bobbi the following day and she was ecstatic.
A happy ending to our first adventure with Bobbi and the Strays.
