By Police1 Staff
LAKELAND, Fla. - An SPCA employee captured a touching scene after an officer rescued a stray puppy and brought it in to be fed, vaccinated and sheltered.
Lakeland PD Officer Kareem Garibaldi almost hit the puppy, finding it camped out under his police cruiser on Saturday night. With no collar or dogtag, the officer was unable to locate the owner after searching around the neighborhood.
According to a post on the City of Lakeland Facebook page, “At the end of his third day, 12 hour shift, Officer Garibaldi, on his own time, transported the dog to the SPCA to be checked out. He sat there from 8:45am to 12:00 p.m. as the vet checked the puppy out when this picture was taken and posted to Twitter. Later that day, the puppy found a new home.”
The puppy, an 8 to 10 week-old pit bull/boxer mix, has since been named Hope.