HAYDEN, Idaho — Raymond Behrens never thought he would see his beloved beagles again. It had been six years since he gave up the dogs — named Bullet and Trigger — to a Boise couple when he enlisted in the Navy.
Last week, home in Deary again after a tour in Iraq and two tours in Afghanistan, Behrens was stunned to find his old pooches on the Internet, available for adoption.
“I thought there’s no way that can be my dogs. There’s no way that’s possible,” he said.
With his wife, Kaci, 2-year-old son, Danyole, and mother in tow, Behrens drove Thursday to the Hayden Lake home of Lynne Nostrant, a Second Chance Pet Rescue foster home volunteer. Behrens knows Bullet remembers him, and he thinks Trigger does too.
“He was all over me, snuggling,” Behrens said. “He put his arms up on my shoulders and just stared eyes-to-eyes at me.”
The people in Boise who last owned Bullet and Trigger surrendered them to the pet rescue in October, the same month Behrens left the service. Nostrant said the couple did not want to give them up but had to because they have a small home, a 2-year-old child, and another child on the way.
