Updates On 15th Aug 2013

HELICOPTER FILMS DRAMATIC RESCUE OF HIGHWAY DOG

http://animalrescuechase.com/rescue_showcase/story.php?id=1117

Field Report from rescuer Ed Kostro of Illinois:

�Turn on your T.V! There�s a terrified little dog racing down the expressway in rush hour traffic� came the early morning call on July 3rd when days of early fireworks had already led to many frightened pets running away from home.I immediately turned on my television, and I soon saw the heart wrenching story now unfolding on the morning news.

�A small white dog was first spotted around 6:45 AM on one of Chicago�s busy expressways, and he�s still out there dodging traffic, and running for his life,� the broadcaster said. “Our helicopter crew has been following this tiny orphan on his morning-long odyssey, and he just ran up an entrance ramp to the expressway. He has now exited the highway, and he�s now racing south down an extremely busy city street.�

I quickly realized that the street that this terrified little dog was now racing down was fairly close to my home so I immediately jumped in my truck to help in his rescue if I could. I quickly found many Good Samaritans already out on this busy street, already compassionately attempting to capture him before he was run down in traffic.

This poor dog had already run well over five miles in the terrible July heat and humidity, and he finally took some refuge in a patch of extremely high weeds adjacent to the street he was now racing down.

Several of us soon encircled this patch of high weeds and an extremely determined young man named Jose was eventually able to grab this now terrified, injured, and extremely dehydrated little dog. As he held on to this little street waif, I managed to get a loop leash around his neck, and this poor lost dog�s terrifying ordeal was now finally over.

As I carried him back to my truck, I didn�t realize that several helicopters and reporters were now following us….

The dog, now named Rags, has made a complete recovery and has been adopted by the veterinarian who treated him. SEE MORE GREAT PHOTOS FROM THIS RESCUE here http://animalrescuechase.com/rescue_showcase/story.php?id=1117

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