Rescue Husky Pulls Off a Jailbreak So Impressive Even Shelter Staff Have to Laugh

After everything Maya had endured, seeing her perched proudly atop her kennel was the kind of moment that made shelter staff laugh and feel hopeful at the same time. The 5-year-old Husky had arrived at Richmond Animal Care & Control carrying painful reminders of a difficult past, but anyone meeting her now might first notice something entirely different. Maya is playful, curious, remarkably clever, and apparently convinced that kennel walls are simply challenges waiting to be solved. One day, staff walked into the shelter and discovered their fluffy resident standing somewhere they never expected to find her. Credit: Facebook Maya was not inside her kennel. Instead, she was calmly standing on top of it, looking as though she belonged there. Staff could hardly believe what they were seeing. Somehow, the agile Husky had climbed the kennel walls, found a small opening near the wall, and squeezed through before settling herself on the wire cover above. “We were dying laughing and then really wondered how she managed it,” Christie Peters, director of Richmond Animal Care & Control, told The Dodo. The shelter later shared the funny discovery on Facebook, joking that Maya was casu...