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Never know what the day will bring - catching 'hound herd'
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM --- The four dogs escaped by digging a hole under the fence and decided a stroll downtown would be nice.
A woman was coming out of 1st Choice in  downtown Putnam, and saw the four dogs. They looked like they were in danger of getting hit by a car.
So near the Livery Street-Front Street intersection, she offered them some food that she had and she had four new best friends.  Putnam Police were called. While they were waiting for someone to pick up the dogs, the herd decided to check out Livery Street. 
By then Detectives Donna Brown and Hailey Griffin had joined Officer Mark Boulanger. Passersby joined the game, trying to keep the dogs in place, waiting for the owners to come get the dogs.
Griffin, petting one dog, kept him from joining his three cohorts who took off up the alley behind the Bradley Playhouse. Boulanger still had some of the food in the bag and he and passersby got them back to Livery Street. The owners arrived and took all four of the dogs home, safe and sound. 
And K9 Quin waited in the cruiser for Officer Boulanger to return from the canine adventure. 

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