What a lucky dog, and loving community.
Marcia
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Just gives ya the chills, doesn't it?
Karen
on 10:13 AM 3/8/2017, Vickie said:
Blind dog home after being lost in California woods for 7 days
Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A blind dog that wandered away from her family's
California home
and into the nearby woods was found seven days later in the Santa
Cruz mountains.
Beth Cole of Boulder Creek said her family's blind Labrador
retriever, Sage, wandered
into the forest Feb. 24 after Cole's family believed the dog had
been brought in
for the night.
"Our neighbors and other members of the community helped us search
day and night
for a week," Cole told the Santa Cruz Sentinel. We looked
everywhere.
Cole said she was concerned about dropping temperatures at night and
recent mountain
lion sightings in the area.
"We'd almost given up hope," Cole told KSBW-TV.
Dan Estrada, Cole's neighbor, was out hiking with friend Victor
Lopez and two dogs
Saturday when they spotted a white shape in a nearby stream.
"At first I thought it was a garbage bag in the water," Estrada
said. My vision is
not very good so it wasn't until I got closer that I saw it's
actually a white lab
laying there lifeless in this stream -- her chin just above water
level.
Estrada said he feared Sage was dead until she lifted her head
slightly.
"When we saw she was alive, I jumped in the stream and hugged her,"
Estrada said.
Man, it was really emotional.
He said Sage was too weak to move on her own and her current
location was about to
turn dangerous.
"It had been dry that week and the new rain was moving in," Estrada
said. When we
found her she didn't have the energy to lift herself out. That
streambed would have
been flowing during a rainstorm.
Estrada, a paramedic and EMT for the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire
Department, slung
Sage over his shoulders and carried her out of the woods.
Cole said Sage, exhausted but uninjured, is resting and recovering
at home.
"We've always loved our community, but this really re-enforced what
a special place
this is," Cole said.
Estrada rejected a $1,000 reward from Cole's family, asking instead
that the money
be donated to an animal cause. He and Lopez created some custom dog
leashes for each
day that Sage was missing and are planning to auction them off at a
March 18 celebration
to benefit
Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter.
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