Fostering a love of dogs
By Suzanne Werre
Editor
It didn’t take long for a recent Facebook post about a stray dog at Coleharbor to make its way to the watchful eye of dog lover Lori Gefroh.
Gefroh, who lives with her husband on a farm just a few miles southeast of Underwood, did a little research through Facebook, found out where the dog had been hanging out, talked to some local property owners, then set out a trap that would gently catch the dog.
“Some of the residents of Coleharbor were feeding him, but no one could get close enough to him to catch him,” said Lori. “He was well fed and healthy when I got him. Very scared.”
It only took about three hours for the dog , a Blue Heeler mix she named Colby (for Coleharbor), to make its way into the trap, speculates Lori. The Blue Heeler part seems pretty obvious, she noted, and because of its coloring and size of his legs and feet, she thinks he’s also either part Rottweiler or Doberman.
It took a little while for Colby to get used to his new home, and to Lori, but he is very well behaved, and was definitely someone’s pet, she speculates. People who saw him when he was still loose at Coleharbor said it looked like he was waiting for someone to come back and pick him up along the highway.
That didn’t happen. Instead, he is now being fostered by Gefroh, who often fosters dogs through Bismarck’s Furry Friends Rockin’ Rescue.
