Survival Tale: Dog Rescued From Heavy Snow After Months of Being Missing

During December, a canine that had been gone for months was rescued in Lake Tahoe by two ladies, who had to snowboard into the isolated location and pull the shivering dog back the steep hillside.

Missing Dog, Rescued in Lake Tahoe

The puppy was in the bitter cold, evidently reluctant to relocate, and was barking at the folks," said Tahoe PAWS Blog entry.

El Dorado District State Wildlife Agent Kyle Shumaker was alerted, but has been unable to explore the content due to the 5-foot snowfall.

"One among my emergency responders seated on the snowmobile and retained the dog so he would not even crash down or swoop, and to keep him comfortable they covered him in bottom outerwear," Remarked Wendy Jones.

"It was a perilous journey down since the winter weather was just so profound and the snowmobile struggled to tumble over, so they were very cold and wet when they reached the bottom."

The women turned the freezing canine over to local animal control authorities stationed at the snowcapped foot after a two-hour walk back down the hill by night.

"I glanced up with my headlight and saw this black blob in the ice up against a tree trunk, and I said to myself, it's the canine, and he's no longer living."

Given the fact that it was approaching midnight, wildlife hunters Leona Allen and Elsa Gaule donned on snow boots and commenced the walk up the steep mountain to where they anticipated to bring the dog.

Allen, 61, told the San Francisco Chronicle that when she reached the dog, a dangerous dog hybrid, she thought it was lifeless.

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Missing Dog Finally Goes Home to Its Owner

It ended up taking detective work, but they were eligible to pinpoint a tracking chip in the canine and help locate his operator, who dwells in Riverside County, over 400 miles to the south.

Prior to actually carrying the canine onto a snowmobile they had pulled up to the summit, the ladies devoted considerable hours with him, building his affection.

When notified, TLC 4 Furry Friends representatives stated that the owner was overjoyed to discover that his canine was intact.

"It was an evening intervention, we had 5 feet of current, snowfall that they had to compete with to snowboard up a steep hill to get where they assumed the animal will be," Jones clarified.

Wendy Jones encourages pet owners to have their animals digitized and have ID labels on their leashes.

Russ had mysteriously disappeared in August when his mistress was out on a foreign medical assignment during Caldor Incident.  

The canine was brought to the doctor, who found that the chilly and fatigued little man was in decent shape. In additament to the snowfall, conditions in the Lake Tahoe region had reached a low of 6 ° c on December 16, and the lows on the nights beforehand and following are not much better, according to meteorological data.

The owner declared Russ gone and put-up fliers, but as the wildfire raged over the foothills into South Lake Tahoe, the owner was compelled to escape along with hundreds of others, leaving Russ behind.

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