Five-Hour Foot Chase in San Francisco Leads to Successful Dog Rescue (and Later Reunion)
On July 7, San Francisco animal control officers found themselves in an hours-long pursuit near Oracle Park that had them maneuvering through parked cars and across railroad tracks to retrieve Nieve, a white terrier mix. This past Friday, the very good doggo was reunited with her doting family.
San Francisco Animal Care & Control (SFACC) is no stranger to long-drawn-out, harrowing animal rescues. (The local government agency even garnered their own spot on A&E s
Live Rescue series this past October.) That patience and prowess was put to the test earlier this month when on-site animal control officers spent over five hours chasing down a very confused, very scared and very lost dog near Oracle Park.
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LaMonte Wade Jr. conectó dos jonrones y los Gigantes de San Francisco evitaron perder por barrida la serie de tres juegos al vencer el domingo por 6-1 a los Piratas de Pittsburgh.
Los venezolanos Wilmer Flores y Thairo Estrada batearon también cuadrangulares para San Francisco, que tiene la mejor foja de las Grandes Ligas, de 62-37, y mantiene una ligera ventaja sobre los Dodgers para liderar el Oeste de la Liga Nacional antes de la serie entre los dos rivales divisionales esta semana en el Oracle Park.
Alex Wood (9-3) ponchó a ocho y lanzó hasta la sexta para ayudar a que San Francisco se recuperara un día después de que perdió 10-2, en su peor derrota de la temporada.
BEISBOL
Chris Taylor es felicitado por varios compañeros.
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Will Smith sacudió un jonrón que significó la ventaja en el octavo capítulo, y los Dodgers de Los Ángeles superaron el domingo 3-2 a los Rockies de Colorado.
Chris Taylor añadió un par de vuelacercas por los diezmados Dodgers, que ganaron duelos consecutivos ante los Rockies apenas con cuatro carreras en total.
Por los Rockies, el dominicano Raimel Tapia de 3-1 con una anotada. El venezolano Díaz de 3-1 con una anotada y una empujada.
Por los Dodgers, no batearon latinoamericanos.
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LaMonte Wade Jr. conectó dos jonrones y los Gigantes de San Francisco evitaron perder por barrida la serie de tres juegos al vencer el domingo por 6-1 a los Piratas de Pittsburgh.
Finally trapping the dog behind a parked car, the officers scooped her up in a net and brought her to the city animal shelter. After following the usual procedures for lost animals, the senior dog was transferred to next-door neighbor Muttville Senior Dog Rescue in San Francisco s Mission district.
And then the miracle took place.
The dog looked familiar to Alice Ensor, an adoption counselor at Muttville, and she combed social media for lost dog posts that went up around the time Animal Control picked up the dog, according to Patty Stanton of Muttville.
The counselor found a lost dog alert that had been posted around that time for a white terrier mix named Nieve who escaped or was stolen July 6 when her owner, a Vallejo man named Carlos, was working in Mission Bay, Stanton said.
Animal Control officers rescue lost dog after 5-hour chase in San Francisco
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Carlos is reunited with his long lost white terrier mix, Nieve, on Friday, July 23, 2021. Photo: Muttville Senior Dog Rescue.
SAN FRANCISCO - After an epic five-hour chase across train tracks and around parked cars by four officers near San Francisco s Oracle Park, plus some intensive detective work, Nieve, a fluffy white terrier mix, was reunited with her family Friday.
The case began when the animal control unit got a call about a small white dog on the train tracks at Fourth Street and Townsend streets on July 7, according to Deb Campbell, a spokeswoman for San Francisco Animal Care & Control.