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Dog Falls Out Off of Boat on Lake Michigan, Swims Miles to Be Rescued

Mr.Dog — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 19:42:09 +0000

A young Belgian Malinois called Rylee is one lucky dog. She had fallen overboard and into Lake Michigan while boating with her humans. She was only really missing for about 24-hours, however, she must have had one heck of an adventure getting home.

This all happened Sunday morning when Rylee’s humans called Ed and Kristin Casas decided to pack up Rylee and do some boating. The group was on their way towards the Manitou Islands, and that’s about when Rylee went overboard. They were having some electrical issues on the boat, and they were six miles away from land in just about every direction.

Everyone had been in the boat’s cabin while Ed worked on the repairing the issue. Kristin had to exit the cabin to go topside and do something, and that’s when Rylee also got up and went out with her.

“In retrospect, I remember her coming out here to see where I was going,” said Kristin. “My poor assumption was that she would go back into the cabin with her dad.”

After about ten minutes, Ed noticed that Rylee wasn’t with him, and wasn’t with Kristin. They assumed that Rylee went overboard. Of course, they looked all over for her, but couldn’t find her anywhere. They even alerted the local coastguard station for help. They spent hours with volunteers searching, but somehow Rylee quite literally disappeared.

While the search was on, Lynn Fiedor, the wife of a local fisherman that was helping look for Rylee on the water, found out about what was going on. Lynn and her husband run a local lost dog search team, where they use many platforms to get the word out about a missing dog, including social media. She got to putting Rylee’s info on Facebook as quick as possible.

“We ended up having over 20,000 people look at our post online and when I saw that I was like…we’re going to find the dog,” Lynn said.

Later Sunday night, a boater that picked up a dog struggling in the water that they happened upon saw the missing dog post about Rylee on Facebook. They contacted Ed and Kristin to let them know that they got their dog out of the water, and dropped her off near Empire Beach, which is the area they though the dog was from. When Ed and Kristin got to Empire Beach, Rylee was already gone.

On Monday morning, someone at a local campground called in a report of seeing Rylee. They said they saw Rylee at the Platte River Campground. Ed and Kristin were really hoping that this time, Rylee would still be there when thy arried, and she was. Ed and Kristin are very grateful to everything that helped make finding Rylee safe and sound happen that much faster.

“We have a happy ending,” said Lynn. “And it’s the reason we do what we do.”

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Massachusetts State Police Seeking Help to Reunite Dog with Owner

Mr.Dog — Tue, 10 May 2016 13:27:09 +0000

The Massachusetts state police has found and rescued a dog they have rescued, that was reported to be loose in the Worcester area. The police department are now asking for help in locating the dog’s owners, so they can be reunited.

The dog was being reported by motorists on the I-290 highway as weaving in and out of traffic and scared. Some of the motorists were even trying to get to the dog, to keep anyone from hitting her or worse. Try as they may, they just couldn’t grab her, and by the time the police showed up, she was long gone.

Early this morning, someone that had set out a live trap noticed that they actually had something. There was the dog that was running around on the I-290, finally safe and sound. For now, the dog is being held at Worcester Animal Control. Staff there is hoping to reunite her with her humans as soon as possible.

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Woman Finds Her Dog Alive in Tornado-Wrecked Home

Mr.Dog — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 11:13:41 +0000

As residents in the Deep South hunkered down in preparation for the deadly tornadoes set to strike over the weekend, others, like Constance Lambert, who were out of town, could only worry and pray they could get home in time to reach their pets. She was overjoyed to find her dog alive amongst the wreckage and devastation.

“When I felt the pressure in my ears, I knew it was real,” said Annette Reed of Tupelo, Mississippi. “I knew we had to get to safety.”

They took shelter in their home, and though their property was badly damaged, they all survived.

“The kids were in the basement bathroom with foam over their heads and when a tree crashed through the bathroom window, I got in there too,” said Scott Reed.

Constance was away at an event when the tornado touched down in her area. After reports of the touchdown hit news sources everywhere, she left the event immediately to rush home to check on her pets.

She was on pins and needles the entire way home, worried she wouldn’t see her dog alive again. When she made it back to the wreckage that was her home, she breathed an overwhelming sigh of relief to find him alive.

Luckily, he survived the storm and was seen nosing around the tornado-ravaged homes that made up her neighborhood.

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Lost Friends That Have Finally Found Their Way Home

Mr.Dog — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:14:52 +0000

The Dodo has created a beautiful montage of dog that were lost, being reunited with their loved ones. Losing a dog isn’t easy. Sometimes, you never really know what could happen. Here at Life With Dogs, we cover a lot of stories of dogs being lost of sometimes unbelievably long periods of time being rescued, and finally making their way home. Thanks to things like Facebook and Twitter, more and more lost dogs are coming home, and the reunions are something magical.

You may have heard the phrase, “an elephant never forgets,” and science is starting to prove that is a true statement. Anyone that’s ever been separated from their furry loved ones for any length of time knows that phrase holds true for dogs, too. Some of them seem to be almost beside themselves with happiness that they are finally home with the family. The whine and cry, and act like giant babies. And that is exactly why we love them so much.

A dog loves unconditionally. You should do the same for your dog. It’s what they deserve.

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He Found A Stray Hiding Under His Truck. 4 Days Later? OMG.

Mr.Dog — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:10:33 +0000

Luckily a man who cares found the stray dog under his truck, and decided to give him some food. It’s a good start, it’s something. As you can see in the video the dog is reluctant towards the man, he was probably beat up and abandoned, trust is an issue as e can see, but he ends up trusting the man, hunger probably spoke louder than fear.

Lucky for the dog this man only had good intentions and as soon as he managed to him out of the truck, he took him to the vet and started taking care of the dog. Most importantly, he started to love the dog. In the next video, we can see the amazing impact the man had on the dog’s life – it’s impressive.

On the second video, filmed a few days after he found the dog hiding under his truck, we can see that the dog is clearly healthier, and clearly well-fed. The difference in the look in his eyes is just incredible, we can tell he already trusts the man and it’s only been a few days.

This should serve as a lesson to everyone out there. When you see a stray dog try to give him some love, even if you can’t adopt him yourself, take him to the vet, feed him, tell your friends about him, call the authorities. Just don’t leave him all by himself; the world is too cruel to be left alone.

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Little Boy Has the Most Tear-Jerking Reunion with His Missing Dog

Mr.Dog — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 23:10:52 +0000

Shortly before Christmas, a little boy’s beloved dog, Kase, went missing. He and his family searched the neighborhood for him, but couldn’t find him. Recently his mom did, and the reunion he has with Kase will completely melt your heart.

Paula Williams of Lubbock, Texas, was devastated for her son, who was dearly missing his dog. About a month later, she saw Kase at a neighbor’s home. She asked them to give him back, and discovered that they had been caring for him since he had gotten loose.

“He was found right down the street from our house. A nice family had taken him in and kept him warm and fed,” she said on Facebook.

When Paula arrived to pick up her son from his grandma’s house, she had the best surprise ever.

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PLEASE HELP: Information on Dog Found in Trash Compactor Needed

Mr.Dog — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:43:02 +0000

In Louisville, Kentucky at the Veranda at Norton Commons apartments, animal services came cross a report of a dog found in the trash compactor. The dog had a few scrapes and bruises, but otherwise was in good health. The Metro Animal Services of Louisville is now seeking help in finding the dog’s humans, or the people responsible for putting the dog in there.

The dog was discovered by a maintenance worker at the apartments. He went to turn on the trash compactor, but it wouldn’t start up. Upon inspection of the compactor, Troy Kennon said that he saw a dog cage that appeared to be empty. He soon realized that it wasn’t, when the dog poked his head out.

Kennon knew it wasn’t one of the dogs that belongs with any of the people living in the complex. He’s worked there for a while, and says that he’s familiar with all of the dogs living there. This was one he’d never seen before.

Leslie Hawk with Metro Animal Services of Louisville says the search for the dog’s humans is now on. He didn’t have a microchip on him when he was brought into their shelter, nor any identification tags. So as for now, it’s unknown if the dog is missing, had been stolen, or (hopefully not) was put into the compactor by his family on purpose.

He is described as a Jack Russell or beagle terrier mix. Anyone with information on the identity of the dog or his humans is asked to call Metro Animal Services of Louisville, Kentucky at 502-473-7387. The facility is located at 3705 Manslick Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40215 and also at 3516 Newburg Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40205. You can also visit the animal services website at https://louisvilleky.gov/government/animal-services.

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Authorities Looking to Public for Help Identifying Dog and Abuser

Mr.Dog — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 01:20:58 +0000

An animal cruelty investigation is underway in Riverside County, California. An unidentified dog was found with his muzzle wrapped up with rope. The dog had been abandoned, and now authorities are asking for help from the public in identifying the dog and finding his abuser, so justice can be served.

The dog was discovered by a woman around 7 pm yesterday, while walking along Granite Hill Drive near Pedley Road. The dog is assumed to have been dumped in that area very recently. The woman that came across the helpless dog called the Riverside County Department of Animal Services.

A sheriff’s deputy was sent to the scene, and managed to get to the dog and cut off the ropes binging his mouth closed. According to John Welsh with county animal services, the rope was tied so tightly, it was almost impossible to get it off.

“There was very little space for him to get his knife between the dog’s muzzle and the rope to cut it. That’s how tight it was around him,” said Welsh.

The dog is approximately 2 years old, and other than the obvious, was in pretty decent physical health. He’s said to have a very sweet disposition, despite the abuse that he’s had to endure. He has been taken to the Western Riverside County/City Animal Shelter in Jurupa Valley. While there he was checked for a microchip, but does not have one.

Authorities are asking for any and all information that anyone may have on the dog. Who is he? Is there a family out there looking for him, or was he horribly abused and dumped off by some one? Animal services wants to know, and they are asking anyone with information to come forward

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Sheriff’s Deputies Save Elderly Dog Dying in a Frozen Creek

Mr.Dog — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 01:17:55 +0000

A partially deaf and blind dog in the beginning stages of dementia got confused and wandered away from his yard and nearly died. Thankfully, a neighbor and sheriff’s deputies found him, and saved him from a slow and painful death in an icy Michigan creek.

Janet Lane had been battling a cold and got up around 3 am last Friday to get a drink of water. She let out Rocky, her family’s 15-year-old adopted poodle mix. She waited for him to finish his business and come back inside as usual. But unlike every other time, Rocky didn’t come back in.

She grabbed a flashlight and went looking. He can barely climb the steps from the family room to the kitchen, and wasn’t in any state to be an adventurer. Nevertheless, the little dog had vanished. Lane could only imagine the worst, but was hopeful he’d return.

“Maybe he went off to die. We were waiting, hoping,” she told Detroit Free Press.

The family’s Orion Township home is in the midst of woods and wetlands, a dangerous place for impaired animals. Twice they checked the creek nearby, but there was no sign of him.

Nearly 19 hours later, a neighbor called the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office to report hearing an animal in distress – it was Rocky. Deputies found the little guy hypothermic and trapped in the very same creek bed.

By the time they reached him, it appeared as if it was too late. But a deputy performed chest compressions, and the neighbor supplied blankets to warm him up, and he was resuscitated. The Lanes were called after Rocky’s tag was checked for contact information.

“Oh my God. It was great,” Lane said of the phone call. “We had given up all hope. It’s definitely a great ending. Who wants to die out by themselves?”

She and her husband, Jim, wrapped him up in towels when they got him home, and gently blow-dried him. They tried to get him to drink water, and took him to a vet the next day. He is now home, and though standing up has been a challenge, he’s starting to toddle about and eat and drink again.

“He’s a tough old guy,” Lane said.

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Dog Insistent on a Walk Leads Owner to Missing Elderly Woman

Mr.Dog — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:10:57 +0000

Rebecca Burley was about to go volunteer at an animal shelter on Tuesday when her dog, Roxanne, demanded to be taken for a walk. As fate would have it, an elderly woman had gone missing, and the sagacious dog led her human right to her!

The Virginia schoolteacher was on her way out the door to spend some time at the Isle of Wight County Animal Shelter when rescue dog Roxanne begged for a walk.

“So we went out for a walk, right along our usual route around the neighborhood where we have been walking her since August,” Rebecca told 13 News Now.

But unlike every other day they go out, police were swarming around the area.

“One of the officers pulled up and asked if we have seen someone walking around in a nightgown, and I said ‘no,’ but assumed it was an elderly person.”

The pair continued along their stroll, but moments later, Roxanne dragged Rebecca over to a ditch.

“She pulled me towards a ditch, and there was a woman laying down in a nightgown, it turns out she was in some kind of distress,” Rebecca explained.

She flagged down officers to tell them they had found the woman, and paramedics were called. Rebecca doesn’t know who she is or how she’s doing now, and hopes family members will see the news stories and let her know.

Roxanne was once rescued, and now has paid the good deed forward. Rebecca hopes this will encourage others to adopt shelter dogs – someday they might save a life. This one was rewarded with an extra snack that day.

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Dog & Girl Who Survived Siberian Wilderness Honored with Statue

Mr.Dog — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:56:30 +0000

Last year we shared with you the story of Karina and her dog Naida, who dutifully protected her when she spent nearly two weeks lost in the vast wilderness of Siberia. Naida only left the girl’s side to find people to come rescue them, and recently a statue was unveiled at the Yakutsk Airport dedicated to their perseverance.

On July 29^th, 2014, Rodion Chikitova embarked on a trip to his native village. Unbeknownst to him, his four-year-old daughter, Karina, followed him into the woods. Their puppy, Naida, accompanied her. Karina’s mother thought Rodion had brought her along, and it wasn’t until they spoke on the phone a few days later that their worst fears were realized.

Crews searched by air and land for five days with no trace of her. Some of the men on the ground were even forced to fend off a bear. Chances of finding the girl and pup alive in these conditions and 40-degree weather were becoming increasingly slim. But after nine days, the dog returned to the girl’s village of Olom.

“Two days before we found Karina her puppy came back home. That was the moment when our hearts sank, because we thought at least with her dog Karina had chances to survive – night in Yakutia are cold and some areas have already gone into minus temperatures,” explained Afanasiy Nikolayev, spokesman for the Sakha Republic Rescue Service.

“If she was to hug her puppy, we thought, this would have given her a chance to stay warm during nights and survive. So when her dog came back we thought ‘that’s it’ – even if she was alive – and chances were slim – now she would have definitely have lost all hopes. Our hearts truly and deeply sank.”

But the dog didn’t just return – he came to get people to find her. He led rescuers exactly to her. Karina had been hiding out in some tall grass, which is why she couldn’t be spotted from above.

“Suddenly with the dog’s help we saw Karina siting in the grass. We rushed to her, got her a little tea and grabbed her to run back to the car and doctors,” Nikolayev said. “I carried Karina myself to the car, and she was light as a bird. She weighed hardly 10 kilograms (22 pounds) – but amazingly she was fully conscious.”

Miraculously, the scantily-clad girl only suffered from mosquito bites and a few scratches to her feet. She told rescuers how she survived by eating berries and drinking water from streams.

“Certainly she went with grandmother and parents to the forest, to gather berries. Perhaps this is why she was not afraid of the forest,” said rescuer Albert Semyonov. “Karina herself is a very strong girl, has a strong-willed character. This probably helped her to survive.”

Karina’s grandmother, Emma, said that Karina’s first words to Naida when she returned were “Why did you leave me?” But because of this wonderful dog, she survived and was found before anything bad could happen. She made a complete recovery, and was for the most part unfazed by their sojourn.

Nikolay Chochchasov was inspired by the pair’s stoutheartedness, and created a bronze sculpture in their likenesses. Karina recently celebrated her sixth birthday, around the same time the effigy was revealed by Yakutsk Airport’s general director, Nikolay Mestnikov.

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Dog Credited for Keeping Toddler Safe After They Both Wandered Off

Mr.Dog — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 23:10:33 +0000

A family is happy to have their two-year-old daughter back home, safely after she decided to wander off from the family’s property. They credit their dog who followed the child as she took off for keeping her safe.

It was at about 7:30 pm on Tuesday when two-year-old Sophia wandered off the family property. They live south east of Melbourne in Australia. The family dog is a one-year-old Australian sheepdog called Poppy, and Poppy decided to keep an eye on Sophia, following wherever she went.

In fact, police are saying that it was Poppy’s barks that alerted searchers to her whereabouts. After a seven hour search Poppy and Sophia were found about 200 meters from a dam on the family’s property.

Sophia’s grandmother said, “The only thing I was thinking was well, hopefully the dog would have kept her warm. If the dog wasn’t with her, I don’t know whether they would have found her.”

The family made a public statement thanking the searchers and emergency services for all of their hard work and effort as well. They are very happy to be a whole family again, and said that Poppy would get an extra big, tasty treat for keeping Sophia safe and helping searchers find them.

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Missing Dog Found Wandering The Streets With Large, Unusual Friend

Mr.Dog — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 22:10:30 +0000

Everyone, meet Petey the pig and K2 the dog–two inseparable pals who got lost together.

Petey and K2 are best buddies. They grew up together and they do everything together; they eat together, they sleep together, and they even got lost together. And now they have been found–still together! When they were found, it was the dog who first got spotted. When the people who found K2 led him to their backyard, they were surprised to see the pig follow the dog. They then called animal control services. But when the animal control officer tried to take the dog, the pig started squealing! They then realized that the two are budddies!

Watch the video below for the full story!

This unlikely pair sure caught the attention of many! It’s just so cute watching a dog and a pig who have an inseparable bond and such a beautiful friendship!

Thankfully, Petey and K2 are now back safe at home.

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Dog & Pig BFFs Found Wandering Together

Mr.Dog — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 22:10:59 +0000

It is not unusual to see a stray dog wandering around a neighborhood – this happens every day. But a pig, now that’s a different story. On Wednesday, a dog and a pig were spotted sauntering down a Florida road together. They have since been reunited with their owner.

Wednesday morning, volunteers with the Lost and Found Pets of Hillsborough County got a call about the unlikely duo meandering around Merrily Circle in Seffner.

When the rescuers tried to put the dog inside a truck, the pig began screaming. It appeared that he did not want to be separated from his pal.

Owner Willie Landry came forward to claim them. He said K 2 and Petey the pig grew up together, and escaped through a fence the day before.

Apparently Petey thinks he’s just one of the dogs. There was a third dog back at home who was very morose without his other thirds.

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