Ned Hibberd's Blog

This past Saturday my wife was on her way to get a Mother's Day massage. As she passed Oyster Creek Park in Sugar Land, she saw a little black puppy in a cage, no more than 15 feet from the side of the road.

She couldn't see whether or not the dog had any water, but there was definitely no shade anywhere in sight... and the poor animal was out there all by itself with nobody watching over it!

Running late for her appointment but still wanting to do something to help the poor dog, my wife called me and told me what she saw.  She asked that I make a phone call, because she considered the situation to be animal cruelty.

So I did. I called the Sugar Land Police dispatch line and asked that somebody check on the poor pooch.

My wife thought about the dog during her entire massage.  But she was very happy to see, as she drove home an hour later, that the dog was no longer on the side of the road.

We're not sure if our phone call to police was the reason for the rescue, but we'd like to think we were able to help save a poor puppy from the severe heat and humidity of this past Saturday.

Please remember your pets during these hot spring and summer days. They need lots of water and shade to cool off, just as we humans do.

Ned