The dog, named Reiger after the distillery, is now available for adoption
NEED TO KNOW
- A young dog was discovered on top of a distillery’s roof in Kansas City
- Staff at the location believed the year-old pup, now known as Rieger, could’ve been thrown from a nearby bridge
- “I think I responded the way that most people with a solid conscience do, which is with shock,” hospitality manager Susan Stone Li told KCTV 5
After a fraught, stormy night and a heroic rescue, a Kansas City dog is ready to find his forever family.
On Saturday, March 7, employees at J. Reiger & Co., a distillery in Kansas City, Missouri, arrived at work to discover a scared and confused young shepherd mix stuck atop an outdoor tent, per KC Pet Project and KCTV 5. Baffled, the outdoor bar’s staff reviewed surveillance footage from the night prior and witnessed a heartbreaking scene.
In the footage, the dog appears to fall onto the tent late on Friday, March 6, and then spends the rest of the night walking around the tent and part of the bar’s roof, all during a “nasty” storm, per KC Pet Project.
After watching the footage, many distillery employees surmised that the dog may have been thrown off a nearby bridge, causing him to land forcefully on the business’s roof…