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| Jack, a German shepherd, is back home with the Billeci family after escaping from his cage and through a locked door at a veterinary clinic in Medford last week. |
Marsha Billeci feared Jack was at death's door last week when she brought her 6-year-old German shepherd on Monday to Dr. Shannon Sierra, a veterinarian at Most effective Buddies Animal Hospital on West Main Street in Medford
"We got him as a puppy," Billeci stated. "He is like 1 of our 4-legged young children."
Jack, suffering from a strange flu-like illness, was also exhibiting symptoms of pneumonia. Lethargic and declining to eat, Jack was hooked up to intravenous antibiotics. By Wednesday, he was perking up just a little. But on Thursday morning, Billeci got the shocking call that Jack was missing.
"I went hysterical when I got the call," she said. "My concern was that he would lay down in a ditch and die."
Sierra said he and his staff had been dumbfounded to locate the large dog missing from his kennel that morning. They searched the clinic and found clear evidence that Jack's appetite was back. Four bags of food had been ripped open.
Sierra stated he shut down the hospital and joined the full-scale search.
"Jack is actually a superb dog," Sierra said. "But he was so sick he could barely walk. Then, 72 hours later, he's on the lam."
The clinic's security organization said police had been notified soon after motion detector alarms had been tripped at 10:30 p.m., 1:30 a.m. and again at 4:45 a.m., Billeci stated.
Police had responded - at the very least to the very first two alarms, she added.
"They saw a German shepherd running around inside the building. But they didn't see anything else," Billeci said.
But police didn't have the benefit of realizing they were dealing with an extraordinarily canny canine, Billeci said. Jack is incredibly smart, incredibly stubborn and quite tall. And he learned long ago ways to open cupboard doors, drawers and other locked spaces at her property and discover his doggy treats, she said.
"He knows where his treats are," Billeci said. "He self-serves. He hooks his claw on the deal with and pulls. He yanks super difficult."
Sometime between 1:30 and 4:45 a.m., Jack managed to trip the dead bolt on the clinic's back door, pull down the lever manage, and push his way to freedom, Billeci stated.
"You can see the claw marks," she said. "He worked that door."
Once Jack produced his way out the door, the persistent pooch high-tailed it to the Talent hills, she said, inside the general direction of Billeci's residence. But he ended up at a stranger's house on Andrew Road, demanding entrance to the rural residence situated much more than seven miles from the clinic, Billeci stated.
"He tried to get in this woman's home," she said. "She called her son."
The woman's son tried to obtain Jack to "shoo," she stated. "But he wouldn't leave."
They referred to as animal control. Luckily Billeci had also contacted the shelter just minutes before, and she was rapidly reunited with her runaway invalid, she stated, adding Jack is still taking medicine, but resting comfortably on her living-room sofa.
"Everybody was great," Billeci said. "He's rather a handful. But we take pleasure in him."
Sierra said Jack's recovery is "impressive." But added the wily woofer's adventures have resulted in new policy at the animal hospital.
"We now have individual locks on each cage," he said, adding the new measures really should thwart the escape efforts of any critter without having benefit of an opposable thumb
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