Fugitive dog gains fame in New Orleans eluding dart guns and nets
JACK BROOK
Associated Press/Report for America
Updated
MICHELLE CHERAMIE, ASSOCIATED PRESS, VALIDATED UGC, THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE
For months, a fugitive dog known as Scrim has transfixed the city of New Orleans and gained growing fame as a tenacious band of citizens wielding a tranquilizer dart gun and night vision binoculars race to track him down.
NEW ORLEANS — A scruffy little fugitive is on the lam again in New Orleans, gaining fame as he outwits a tenacious band of citizens armed with night-vision binoculars, nets and a tranquilizer rifle.
Michelle Cheramie, founder of Zeus' Rescues, at her office in New Orleans on Dec. 9 with a whiteboard index of sheltered cats and dogs and a Scrim look-alike recuperating in the background.
A Scrim sticker for sale Dec. 9 at Zeus' Rescues office to raise money for the shelter in New Orleans.
Jack Brook, Associated Press
A homemade portrait of Scrim hangs Dec. 9 in the Zeus' Rescues shelter in New Orleans.
Jack Brook, Associated Press
Scrim spends some time outside Oct. 24 with Michelle Cheramie, director of Zeus' Rescues, in a fenced-in area at Metairie Small Animal Hospital in Metairie.
Brett Duke, The New Orleans Advocate
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For months, a fugitive dog known as Scrim has transfixed the city of New Orleans and gained growing fame as a tenacious band of citizens wield…
Michelle Cheramie, founder of Zeus' Rescues, at her office in New Orleans on Dec. 9 with a whiteboard index of sheltered cats and dogs and a Scrim look-alike recuperating in the background.
