If you’ve ever wondered if you could save yourself if in a crisis, this story might be reassuring! We never know exactly how we are going to respond when disaster strikes, but if we can set our minds to something beforehand, it can help us make the tough call when we need it!
For one Australian shepherd named Vango, the only rescuer he needed was himself!
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In Gatineau, Canada, one pet store had quite the event happen! Yves Jodoin is a staff member and trainer at the local store, Au Royaume des Animaux, and saw everything go down.
Vango walked into the shop on a Monday with a couple who Yves had seen before.
The couple had been in a few times and bought food from them for their cat. It was then that things started to get a bit weird.
“The dog was barking, the dog was poking and he really wanted my attention,” Jodoin said.
When Yves started asking some basic questions about the dog, they didn’t seem to know the answers!
If you own a dog, you know some of the basic information about it. They weren’t sure his age, whether he’d been neutered, what kind of food he liked, or how much they even paid for him. While not knowing one or two of these questions may not have been cause for concern, now knowing ALL of them surely was.
The more questions Yves asked, the more the couple evaded him.
“They were evading the questions,” Jodoin said. “I was giving the dog cookies, but the dog was still barking.”
As a dog trained, he knew something was up and wrong with the situation. While the couple shopped around, Yves sent a colleague to go and look up missing pets on social media.
Soon, the colleague pulled up a picture of Vango.
The family who posted it claimed that he had gone missing two and a half hours earlier in Buckingham. Even more, Yves realized why he felt familiar with the dog and the dog was greeting him in return – he had trained him as a puppy!
“At that point I said, ‘Vango, come!’ And the dog was reacting, he was jumping,” Jodoin said. “All along he was barking and poking, trying to say, ‘Hello, I’m not the dog they say I am.'”
When confronted, the couple made up a story.
They said they found the dog in the woods and wanted to keep the dog as a support animal. She said she had bad health and couldn’t afford to buy another dog to train. They were surrounded by witnesses, however, and the real owner, Josée Francoeur, was called to the shop.
“I can’t talk about it without crying,” Francoeur said about the moment she received Jodoin’s call.
Thankfully, the story has a happy ending!
Vango had a part to play in his own rescue! It’s pretty incredible that a dog like him knew EXACTLY what to do. His mom ended up pressing charges on the couple who stole him from her fenced yard. She said:
“I don’t want to cause them problems. We don’t know why they did it. But at the same time, they took my baby,” Francoeur said. “I want to discourage others from doing this.”
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