{"id":173,"date":"2005-03-11T10:55:15","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T18:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/03\/jumping_and_licking_enthusiast_loose_on_the_major_deegan.html"},"modified":"2008-01-23T23:42:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T07:42:02","slug":"jumping_and_lic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/jumping_and_lic.html","title":{"rendered":"Jumping and Licking Enthusiast Loose on the Major Deegan"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you were lucky enough to catch the news coverage last night, you would have been treated to harrowing live footage of a dog evading cops and drivers on the Major Deegan<\/a>. We saw him get clipped by a car, but for a while there, it was hilarious. Newscasts took several minutes out of their schedule to follow the breaking news, which was better than O.J., in my opinion.<\/p>\n

The Times picks up the story:<\/p>\n

A runaway poodle named Snoopy found fame yesterday afternoon when he was spotted negotiating traffic on the Major Deegan Expressway near Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n

Helicopter news cameras beamed nail-biting images of Snoopy dodging cars and police officers approaching him. One officer braved a retaliatory nip, scooped him up and stuffed him into a squad car.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You might be wondering whose dog this was; the Times tracked him down:<\/p>\n

Officials refused to turn the dog over to Ken Baez, a truck driver, who showed up to claim the 6-year-old mixed poodle. Mr. Baez said that his mother-in-law, Altagracia Santana, is in the Dominican Republic and that he and his wife, Elosia, had been caring for Snoopy when he escaped.<\/p>\n

He had watched Snoopy’s adventures unfold on television. “We were looking all day and we went to take a rest,” Mr. Baez said. “That’s when we saw him on TV.”<\/p>\n

Workers at the [American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Manhattan, where the dog was taken] said they were concerned that, his ordeal notwithstanding, the mixed-breed poodle appeared unkempt. and they wanted to make sure he was receiving proper care. Gail Buchwald, a vice president, said Snoopy was given a mild sedative.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

The Baezes said they had been trying to find Snoopy since 2:30 p.m., when he bolted from their apartment at 150th Street and Macomb Avenue, where he had been staying while his owner was away.<\/p>\n

Somehow, Snoopy made his way from there to the Major Deegan, where he was finally grabbed at 5:55 p.m.<\/p>\n

Mr. Baez’s nephew, Jose, 15, said Snoopy, whom he described as an enthusiast of jumping and licking, didn’t know any tricks, at least until he developed his escape routine.<\/p>\n

He added: “I was going crazy because the dog was on the highway. They were like, he was neglected, but he wasn’t. Everybody knows that dog.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you were lucky enough to catch the news coverage last night, you would have been treated to harrowing live footage of a dog evading cops and drivers on the Major Deegan. We saw him get clipped by a car, but for a while there, it was hilarious. Newscasts took several minutes out of their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-channeling_jd_salinger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}