Those names were bestowed on two dogs — both Jack Russell and bluetick hound mixes — by a homeless woman called Thumper. Their monikers, she said, pretty much sum up life on the streets.
Thumper was huddled beneath a pile of blankets with her pups near Hidden Hollow in Sugar House on Thursday at 4:30 a.m. But the 39-year-old camper sat up to greet Charly Swett from the Volunteers of America (VOA), who was carrying a clipboard and a survey.
Swett and her outreach team were among 70 people Thursday canvassing the out-of-the-way places in Salt Lake County where homeless people camp.