Two lost Minnesota dogs found in miraculous ways
Two Minnesota dogs were found in amazing ways. One family’s missing dog was found by visiting Santa, and another survived sub-zero temperatures to find his family. FOX 9’s Maury Glover has more.
(FOX 9) – For Terressa Trattles, her 2 1/2-year-old German Shepherd Walter is a member of the family. So she is grateful her family is whole again, after Walter was missing for nearly a week.
“My heart has been extremely back to fullness. I got my boy back,” said Trattles.
Trattles says Walter was sitting in their front yard in Remer, Minnesota, about three hours north of the Twin Cities, a week ago last Saturday, when he suddenly took off.
She eventually came across some of his paw prints about a mile away, but Walter was nowhere to be found.
“I was scared that another animal was going to eat him because in this country, you got your wolves and your coyotes,” said Trattles.
Trattles put up flyers around town at the urging of The Retrievers, a nonprofit that helps dog owners find their missing pets.
While they were in the process of setting up food stations and trail cams to track Walter’s whereabouts, Trattles got a call that he had been found by some Good Samaritans about six miles from their family’s home, nearly a week after he disappeared.
“He could not walk. Very skinny. When we finally got him to the vet, they said if it would have been an hour to two hours later, he would have died,” said Trattles.
“For their friends to come across him like that was remarkable. He definitely has some dog angels,” said Kathy Britain, from The Retrievers.
After treating him with an IV at home for several days, Trattles says Walter is on his way to making a full recovery.
But she says she always had hope.
“I’d like to tell people, ‘don’t give up on your dog’. I didn’t give up on him. It just shows you got your best friend out there. you search for him,” said Trattles.
Trattles says Walter has another vet appointment on Tuesday.
If all goes well, he is expected to make a full recovery.
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