{"id":3492,"date":"2025-08-11T02:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2025-08-11T02:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:53:07","slug":"a-shelter-dogs-big-day-led-to-a-forever-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3492","title":{"rendered":"A Shelter Dog\u2019s Big Day Led to a Forever Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>From Shelter to Station<\/strong><br>Bolo, a 3-year-old pit bull mix, arrived at the Hopkinsville Police Department expecting a one-day visit through \u201cPaw-Trol Wednesdays,\u201d a program letting shelter dogs spend time at the station. Public Information Officer Royale Marfil hoped it would help dogs get adopted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instant Connection<\/strong><br>Despite early hesitation, Bolo quickly won everyone over. \u201cHe warmed up to everyone so fast,\u201d Marfil said. His calm energy, wagging tail, and goofy charm made the station feel brighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Permanent Home<\/strong><br>When it was time to return to the shelter, Bolo\u2019s sad whimper tugged at hearts. Marfil asked Chief Newby about keeping him. \u201cYeah, why not?\u201d he said. Bolo was officially adopted and now goes home with Marfil each night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Officer Bolo\u2019s New Role<\/strong><br>In November, he was named the department\u2019s first \u201cPaw-trol Officer.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s as if I\u2019m borrowing the space from him now,\u201d Marfil joked. Bolo is more than a mascot\u2014he\u2019s a symbol of second chances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Shelter to StationBolo, a 3-year-old pit bull mix, arrived at the Hopkinsville Police Department expecting a one-day visit through \u201cPaw-Trol Wednesdays,\u201d a program letting shelter dogs spend time at the station. Public Information Officer Royale Marfil hoped it would help dogs get adopted. Instant ConnectionDespite early hesitation, Bolo quickly won everyone over. \u201cHe warmed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3494,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions\/3494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}