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Lucky Dog Found Alive 12 Days after Falling out Of Owner’s
Pickup Truck Bed
When Susan Valles Clinger first
saw Beau in an Idaho shelter, the Idaho woman instantly knew the shepherd-lab
was special. “I don’t know – he just looked at you with that special look where
you knew ‘OK, this is the one,” Valles Clinger told KTVB7.
But
although she knew Beau was special, Valles Clinger also let her dog ride
unrestrained in the back of her pickup truck, a practice that kills
100,000 dogs every year. Beau managed to hang on for 2 years without
incident, but one day, the shelter pup’s luck finally ran out.
“It was probably the worst
feeling I’ve ever felt in my life, and just the look on my son’s face – it was
instant panic,” the Idaho woman said, recalling the moment she looked back
to discover that Beau was gone. “You almost just don’t want to believe it, that
he’s just not there.”
The
family scoured the area for any sign of the missing dog, but the poor animal
seemed to have mysteriously vanished. “We doubled back and searched for him and
couldn’t find him, couldn’t find a body, we couldn’t find any traces of him
whatsoever,” she said.
As the days turned into one week,
and then almost 2, Valles Clinger started to fear the worst, especially as
daily search parties returned empty handed. But then, 12 days after Beau had
gone missing, employees from a local rafting company discovered something
strange. There was a dog stranded on a sandbar in the middle of the Payette River.
“I
don’t think I’ve ever cried of happiness before, but I did twice that day,” the
dog’s owner said. Beau had broken leg, a serious case of road rash, and lost 16
pounds, but he was going to survive, although his fractured ankle would require
surgery. “It was kind of a complicated surgery where they have to take bone
from other parts of his body and put it in that same spot where they were going
to fuse it,” she said.
The good news is that Beau
is expected to make a full recovery, although it will be at least 10 months
before this dog will be able to properly walk, run, and play. Regardless, this
entire ordeal could have been avoided if Beau’s owner had just taken care to
put her precious cargo in the cab. Please don’t expose your precious pets to
such needless and dangerous risks.
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