The staff at Charleston Animal Society (CAS) first met a sweet and good-natured dog named Gumby when he was brought to them as a stray in September 2014. Little did they know the unbelievable relationship they were about to forge with him.
Over the course of the next year, Gumby was returned to the shelter a whopping 11 times.
You see, this elusive hound mix was a spectacularly talented escape artist who always managed to find his way back to the same shelter. Whether he’d slip through an adopter’s screen door or be surrendered by an adopter who couldn’t handle his sneaky ways, the staff did everything they possibly could to find him his forever family… but nothing ever seemed to work out.
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For example, Gumby returned to CAS four times during his third adoption. He was dropped off once by a Good Samaritan, once by animal control, and twice by his adopter. What a sneaky pup!
In December 2015, the staff made a last-ditch effort to adopt Gumby into a forever home, only for him to escape three times in less than one month. Things were getting kind of ridiculous at this point, Gumby would not stay put, no matter where he was placed.
Finally, the CAS staff realized that sweet and good-natured Gumby was really trying to tell them something with his escape artist ways…
