DENVER (KDVR) — What could have turned deadly very quickly turned into a story of two abandoned puppies finding their fur-ever homes.
In January, while FOX31 was on a ride-along with the Denver Animal Protection to make sure animals were safe in freezing temperatures, crews got word of two fluffy, white puppies abandoned and stuck in a Montbello ditch. After a difficult and slick rescue, the two Great Pyrenees puppies were safe and sound.
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The puppies were put on hold for a few days until a possible owner came to claim them. No one came forward. Since then, FOX31 has received many questions about what happened to those puppies and how new owners could adopt them.
“My wife and I had a Pyrenees who was 12 years old, and we had to put him down on November 25, and it was pretty rough…so we decided not to get any more dogs for a while. She sent me your story, and she said, ‘Take a look at this.’ It angered me quite a bit, but I told her right away, we’ve got to go get those dogs,” said Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Wayne Pennington. “They have to hold the dog for five days in case someone lost them… So, we didn’t think that was going to be the case for the dogs to be out in a drainage pipe in zero-degree weather.”…