For the Love of Dog · Episode 20 · July 25, 2026 · 11 min

Fireworks, Floods, and Getting Dogs Home

A little dog named Prieta went missing over the Fourth of July and turned up two weeks later swimming in San Francisco Bay, fending off seagulls until Menlo Park firefighters scooped her out of the water. PJ and Christine talk about why her microchip got her back to her family within an hour, then celebrate Boerne, Texas, where a town of 24,000 placed 46 shelter dogs into 29 emergency foster homes in just eight hours ahead of the floods. Plus good news from The Little Red Dog: Katniss and Pet...