Cokie Roberts' Black Lab Lost in Bethesda

    BETHESDA, MD, April 24, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A rescued black female Labrador retriever recently adopted by Emmy Award-winning journalist Cokie Roberts was lost on Bradley Blvd. at 6:15 p.m. Saturday, Lab Rescue of the Labrador Retriever Club of the Potomac announced today.

Named Katie, the 48-lb. Lab is about five years old and has a bit of gray around her muzzle (see photo). She was wearing a collar with a Lab Rescue tag attached.

Katie is a recently rescued stray. She is gentle but extremely shy, so please do not try to catch or approach her. If you see her, please try to keep her in sight at a distance and call Sarah of Lab Rescue at 703-589-5034 or the Montgomery County Animal Emergency Line at 240-773-5900. There is a $100 reward for information that leads to her return.

Katie initially headed north and may have been sighted later Saturday evening at the intersection of Marbury Rd. and Durbin Rd. near Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda.

Photos, videos and information about Katie are available at http://www.lab-rescue.org/adoptalab#Katie.

Founded in 1991, Lab Rescue of the LRCP Inc. is a volunteer-driven, nonprofit organization that rescues, fosters and adopts more than 900 Labrador retrievers per year to approved applicants. The group serves Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Washington, D.C., as well as adjacent parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and North Carolina. Labs available for adoption can be seen at www.lab-rescue.org.

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