Scrim was found on Tuesday morning.
Scrim was found on Tuesday morning.
Scrim, New Orleans’ famous fugitive dog, has been captured … again.
The celebrated terrier mutt was taken in a little after 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning, according to Michelle Cheramie, the owner of Zeus’s Rescues dog adoption agency.
Scrim had been trapped in a humane animal cage designed for stray cats. The trap, which was provided by a non-profit organization called Trap Dat Cat, had been set on Lopez Street in Mid-City.
Cheramie, who’s devoted herself to capturing the dog for nine months, said she was jogging when she received word that Scrim was finally caught. She hopped into her truck and raced to scene, she said.
After securing the trap with “something like 20″ stout plastic bands to ensure that the Houdini of hounds could not get out, she took him to Metairie Small Animal Hospital for examination.
Happily, the small dog, which has survived the streets for months, was in “perfect health, with nothing broken or dislocated,” Cheramie said. He’d even gained a little weight.
Scrim was transported in a three-vehicle caravan from the hospital to Cheramie’s Uptown home, she said, where he will receive a bath. Because, Cheramie explained, he stinks.
Cheramie said that Scrim has been fitted with a new geolocation collar. But, she vows, he’s being “held secure.”
Cheramie said that when she and her assistants arrive at her house, their first task will be to lock all of the upstairs windows so the dog cannot leap to freedom as he did in October when he last escaped.
“He won’t get away again,” Cheramie vowed.
For those readers unfamiliar with Scrim’s backstory, here’s a timeline.
Email Doug MacCash at dmaccash@theadvocate.com. Follow him on Instagram at dougmaccash, on Twitter at Doug MacCash and on Facebook at Douglas James MacCash.
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