With the Fourth of July holiday weekend approaching, local animal advocates are reminding neighbors that fireworks can be frightening for pets, potentially causing them to run away from home.
“Fireworks have been going on all week. Yeah, they started about a week ago, and they’ll continue to go on. There have been a number of lost dogs out here already,” said Keri Morales, a Padre Island neighbor and long-time animal rescue advocate.
Morales said one of her neighbors found a small dachshund dog lost and scared near Gypsy Street on the island last Saturday. She believes the dog ran away from home because of loud fireworks that were going off that day…