A new leash on life: dumped dogs rescued near Boulder

Eight dogs believed to have been abandoned near Galena Gulch between Boulder and Basin have been rescued by the Lewis & Clark Humane Society, with assistance from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and local volunteers.

The Sheriff’s Office said on Monday that an investigation was ongoing. On Tuesday morning, Cassidy Cook, the director of development and communications for the Humane Society, said that she couldn’t comment on how or why the dogs were abandoned, or who abandoned them, because “it is an ongoing criminal investigation … We do know for a fact that they were abandoned.”

According to an Aug. 27 Facebook post from the Humane Society, the organization was alerted by the Sheriff’s Office on Aug. 26 that “multiple young hound dogs were found running loose in the mountains around Boulder,” and that “it was determined that these dogs had been dumped and there was a possibility that many more were lost and in distress.”