04/28/2026
After months upon months on the street with no one being able to catch this girl, I was notified. I started with my box trap and quickly realized the only way to get her would be a missy trap, drop net or tranquilizer.
I didn’t have a missy trap, but a very kind lady I met during this sponsored the purchase.
Trap went up thanks immensely to Steve Smedley and I began working her.
Quickly realized she was threshold shy and the missy would not work the way it was intended, so I pivoted. I opened up the front and side panel, giving her a wide opening and worked on building her confidence with coming into the trap. This was done over a period of days. I slowly started closing that gap. I knew I needed to modify the trap to be able to have a quick pull shut when I got her inside.
Note she would only go in with me inside the trap or the middle of the night with no one around. (I have countless videos). I had my good friend Jason out to help a few days, making changes and yesterday we sat for hours with her. Unfortunately, there was a lot of interference from bystanders and people
In general despite 8 signs placed telling them to not feed, interact or mess with the trap.
Yesterday, a lady rushed the trap when I was feeding her inside of it; she ran and refused to come near it or me again. And then last night someone threw a bunch of s**t (two boxes of tacos/peppers/onions etc) into the trap. I went this am to clean it all up.
To my surprise, my girl was there she ran up to me tail wagging and happy. But we had a big problem, I didn’t have any chicken nuggets or tenders. It was 930 am and nowhere to get them. I again improvised and got some ham from Waffle House (thank you Susie?).
I spent time working her into the trap. Closing the panel an inch at a time. And then when I got her to the back, I knew it was NOW OR NEVER and I yanked the panel closed as hard as I could.
Baby girl is safe at my house. She is very scared, malnourished, flea infested, intestinal parasites etc.
She does have a microchip. I did call the registered owner and it doesn’t appear they want her back. I hope they sign surrender forms.
Her name is Willow, she needs a full workup at the vet. And if they sign the papers, a new forever home.
She is very sweet, dog and cat friendly. She would run around playing with the cats at ihop. She has ignored two of my dogs (not introduced to the other 3 cause they can be special. lol)
And yes, at the end of the video where it cuts off is me cussing out a Waffle House employee. I asked him to hold the door shut while I leashed her and secured her, he refused. Yet just days prior he had no issues messing with my trap and camera, s**t talking me, saying I don’t know what I’m doing and I’ll never catch the dog. So yeah, I cussed him out and I’d do it again. 🤷♀️
UPDATE She is being signed over to me today. Once that is official, I’ll discuss next steps. If anybody would like to help with funds to update her vaccines, blood work, f***l and prevention that would be very helpful.
