our pets: RESCUE STORY
Of Love Lost and Found
JUNE 2016
PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
BY KATIE RODGERS
A
I once was lost, now
I’m found
character from J.K. Rowling’s world famous book
series Harry Potter once said, “The things we lose
have a way of coming back to us, if not always in the
way we expect.”
On May 17, a young pit bull was brought in to the
Weatherford Parker County Animal Shelter as a stray.
Though he was badly bruised and riddled with battle
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scars, his tail still wagged gleefully and he greeted the
shelter’s staff with a friend’s demeanor and lots of kisses.
During a routine scan a staff member found a microchip
used for tracking inside the nape of the dog’s neck. The
shelter contacted the person named on the chip: Yendi
Camacho. Hercules’s owner became emotional upon
hearing that the shelter had her dog. The pup had been
missing longer than they’d thought. Yendi explained that
she hadn’t seen him in a little over a year.