Larry Crawford’s pet dog, 14-year-old Chloe, accidentally took off and went missing during a routine walk. He knew that if he didn’t find the older dog, she could be in serious danger and may not make it out alive. He quickly did a wide search and put posters up throughout the surrounding areas, but after 4 weeks of being missing, he started to feel that his chances of finding Chloe again could be gone.
A few days after Larry officially called off his search, a two hikers started hearing a faint bark of an animal nearby. They initially thought it was a coyote, but then Trinity Smith and Sean Nichols remembered they had heard a dog had gone missing about a month before.
They eventually followed the dog’s voice throughout the mountain and tracked him for two days. Nichols explained later that he climbed chute after chute looking for the dog until they found the dog, hidden behind some rocks. She had been stuck on a ledge.
The poor dog was malnourished- she had lost around 60 pounds and had gone from 85 pounds to 26- and she didn’t even have the energy to walk down by herself. They had to carry her all the way down.
Chloe was quickly reunited and by the time she was back into town, Larry had already heard the good news!
“It’s a really tight-knit community — but it’s really good to know that with all the bad in the world — there’s still a lot of good,” Osborne later explained to 9NEWS. “So I thank those guys a lot.”
The amazing sequence of events proves that even in all of these chaotic events happening on the larger scale, little intimate moments between everyday people like this prove that there are truly great people out there doing great things for strangers and their pets all of the time.
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