When Bear, a 2-year-old mutt, leaped from a five-story building, Aaron Hammond rushed to the edge and looked over in a shocked daze.
“I was fully expecting a dead dog,” said Hammond, a student at the University of Northern Colorado.
Hammond was watching Bear, his girlfriend’s dog, during a rooftop barbecue Labor Day weekend near UNC. Bear leaped off the apartment building after a squeaky lawn chair spooked him into a frenzied run. When Hammond searched for the little dog’s silhouette on the ground, he realized it had run off.
Bear was missing for two days before Alyssa Blakesley, his worried owner, found him by chance in the middle of 10th Avenue near her old apartment. Bear had launched about 50 feet from a building, bolted more than 2 miles and wandered the city for two days with a dislocated wrist and 2 liters of air pressing on his heart and chest, all with relatively little consequence.
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