A Washington firefighter returned home from a three-week stretch of battling fires to learn his dog had been adopted by another family.
William Jones of Battle Ground had owned his dog Hunter for about a year. During that time they went on hunts and hikes, and Hunter would even hang out at the fire station. Jones refers to Hunter as his best friend.
Now, though, the two are apart.
“I went out on a fire over in eastern Washington, and when you’re over there you don’t have cell service, so I left my dog, Hunter, with one of my friends here in Vancouver,” Jones said.
When Jones returned home, his friends told him told Hunter had jumped the fence and was missing. Jones then called the Humane Society of Southwest Washington.
“[It] turned out that he was there, but he got adopted,” Jones said. “They told me there was nothing I could do about it, it’s already been legalized.”
Humane Society President Stacey Graham told me Clark County Animal control had found Hunter and brought the dog to the Humane Society, but they weren’t able to identify Jones as the owner.