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Address: P.O. Box 13009, Salem, OR 97309
From Crescent City to Salem
Phone: 503-399-6773
Bobwire disappeared from the cou-
ple’s yard sometime on Sept. 11, while
Pulley was away on a trip in Nevada.
Crager recruited about half a dozen
friends to scour the area in their cars.
“I went up and down every street,
railroad and parkway looking for him,”
Crager said. “We couldn’t find him.”
When Pulley returned home Tues-
day, the couple alerted Del Norte and
Humboldt counties in California and
Curry County in Oregon and they hand-
ed out fliers with a $1,000 reward. But
every call she received was a dead end.
“It was one heartbreak after another,”
Pulley said. “I was devastated. I just
kept crying. I went to sleep crying.”
It’s unclear how Bobwire ended up
hundreds of miles away in Salem, but
the working theory is that he hitched a
ride. The couple said the fence of their
property runs along Highway 101, so it
was likely someone picked him up off
the road.
Melissa Gable, director of Marion
County Dog Services, said the brown-
and-white-spotted pittie came to the
shelter on Sept. 13 after a woman found
him standing next to a car near the Wil-
lamette Town Center shopping mall off
Lancaster Drive.
The dog didn’t have a tag attached to
his harness and wasn’t microchipped,
but immediately won over the hearts of
the entire staff.
“When he came in, the samaritan
who found him — he jumped right up
into her car. He’s super friendly, just the
sweetest thing,” Gable said.
When Gable took him out last week
with volunteers, he got excited and ran
for 10 feet and then he was like, ‘yeah,
I’m done.’
The staff eventually called him “Rhi-
no” because of his size.
“We could’ve gone with hippo, too,”
she said, laughing.
Dog-lovers on social media fell in love
with him, as well. After he wasn’t
claimed, the shelter put Rhino up for
adoption on Sept. 16 and quickly re-
ceived three applications.
Dogs without any form of identifica-
tion can legally be held for up to three
days at the shelter before the county
takes ownership and can put the dog out
for adoption, she said.
Staff got him neutered, de-wormed,
microchipped and vaccinated for rabies
and Bordetella.
“Our goal is, we don’t want the dogs
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A photo of Bobwire, then called Rhino
dueto his size, posted by Marion
County Dog Services on Facebook. The
post was then noticed by family of the
dog's owner.
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to sit here,” Gable said. “We want to get
them out as soon as possible because a
dog that moves through the system
quickly is less likely of getting sick, suf-
fering mentally from being in a shelter.”
An adoption announcement about
Rhino Sunday morning on the shelter’s
Facebook page quickly garnered more
than 200 likes and shares.
But nobody thought it would reso-
nate more than 3,000 miles away.
About 24 hours after the post pub-
lished, Pulley got a call from her sister,
who lives in New Hampshire. She told
the couple she found the shelter’s post
about Bobwire and forwarded the link to
Pulley and Crager.
“When I got off the phone, I ...fell
down crying,” Pulley said. “To get word
that he was only a state away — from the
East Coast — it’s craziness. I’m so happy
that he’s found.”
And on Monday morning, Pulley and
Crager began the drive from Crescent
City to Salem.
“We never thought in a million years
he’d be all the way up here ... that’s al-
most to Washington,” Crager said.
name, the couple said it’s because he
would chew on a circle of barbwire in
the shop when they first brought him
home.
Bobwire fends off bears and elks
from the family’s fruit trees and likes
nipping at the family’s cows.
Bobwire is an avid cuddler, a fierce
protector and snores quite loudly. And
in case you’re wondering, he loves knot-
ted rope toys.
‘Momma’s boy’
‘You’re going home’
Pulley and Crager say Bobwire, who’s
3 and 1/2 years old, is a “momma’s boy.”
When Pulley’s gone, “he’ll sit there
and look out the window and lift up the
blind with his head so it’s over the back-
side of his head and howl,” Crager said.
“You’ll open the door so he can go out ...
and he’ll come outside, look around ...
and then go back in and howl.”
“Me and him have been through a lot
together,” Pulley said.
Crager and Bobwire’s family history
spans two generations — Crager’s dad
owned Bobwire’s dad, Ratchet.
If you’re wondering how he got his
Gable said reunions between dogs
and their humans are not unusual.
What’s unique to this case is that they
were able to find each other from a state
away.
In 2019, for example, the shelter took
in approximately 1,515 dogs and of
those, 804 were returned to their family.
In 2020, 581 dogs out of 1,024 taken in
were reunited with their owners.
Gable said it’s important for owners
to license their pets and supplement
any form of identification with a micro-
chip — and keep contact information up
to date.
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“That’s truly the best way for us to re-
unite them with their families because if
they’re not ... wearing any form of iden-
tification, we have no way of (know-
ing),” Gable said.
“The reality is, even if you feel like
your dog will never, ever leave your yard,
that licensing money comes back and
helps the dogs at the shelter,” she added.
“How about doing it to help a dog that
does (need to be licensed) — that is in
the shelter — because that truly does
help us reunite pets with their owners.”
On Monday evening, the family
squeezed and kissed their spotted pup
in a tearful reunion.
As the family signed his adoption pa-
perwork, Bobwire, who was slumped on
the floor of a vestibule, peered back
through the door into the shelter and
looked back at the couple.
“Don’t worry, bud,” Crager said,
“you’re going home.”
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