Who does n’t have it off a side - of - the - main road - in - decant - rain rescue story ?
Kim Sharpe Jones was on vacation in Montana a few years back , go with her husband , Kendall , to his family reunification .
“ We were going from Glacier National Park to Choteau , Mont. , which is in the center of nowhere on the east side of the park , ” Jones says . They were in the middle of the 10 - day vacation , motor down a two - lane main road , where traffic would usually go 70 miles per hour , in the rain cats and dogs down rain .
Photo: Kim Sharpe Jones
“ It ’s rain down pretty hard , and we saw the cars in front of us slowing down , then speeding up again , and we ’re like , ‘ Oh ! We better be careful . There ’s believably a cow in the road or something , ’ ” she articulate . “ As we get closer , we see this little click chasing the cars , seek to get their aid , and alternate up on the side of the cars as they go by . So , the cars slack down , but they keep work . ”
The couple decided to serve and slowed down . Sure enough , the small black - and - white domestic dog take off to run alongside their car . They pulled into a main road disengagement . “ We did n’t know what was go to happen next , but we knew we had to get her off the highway , ” Jones enunciate .
It took them about 10 moment to capture the pup . “ She would squiggle around and then kind of submit , but if we seek to get too close to her , she would squiggle off , ” Jones tell . “ She was running in circles around the automobile , wanting to interact with us . She was definitely friendly but also really frightened . ”
Kim Sharpe Jones
So , Jones wait in the railcar . Kendall managed to lift out to chase up and shovel her in the front seat at her feet . He shut the door really quick . In the middle of nowhere with a dog with no taking into custody or identification , they question : What now ?
“ Kendall and I both at that clock time were call back ‘ This could be our frankfurter , ’ but we did n’t need to say it out loud , ” Jones tell .
As presently as they had a cellular telephone sign , they started calling local shelters and veterinarians . Everyone express joy and said they could n’t take her . There was an overmuch of strays in the country , and the shelter were full .
Then , the forgivingness of the universe issue forth into manoeuvre . “ Our hotel countenance us cancel last - minute so we could channel to a dog - friendly hotel , ” Jones says . Then the brace headed to Bozeman , where Kendall had a writing gig . They were book at a non - pet favorable hotel and could n’t cancel the reservation , but they ascertain a nearby kennel that could take the dog on poor notification .
The dog had no musical theme how to walk indoors and had intelligibly never encountered stair . Strangely , she was potty trained and had been fixed . It appear as if she ’d been somebody ’s favorite , and they abandon her .
“ I recollect her owner drive her deliberately out there to dump her because there ’s no mode she would be out in the middle of nowhere like that , ” Jones suppose .
The couple was n’t entirely certain if they were going to keep the dog until she got checked out by a veteran , making sure she was respectable and not pregnant . Everything hold in out OK .
Jones could recount Lucy was a angelical picayune dog from the instant they set up her . “ We were going to figure it out , ” Jones says . She joke that she ’s never done anything spontaneous like that in her full life .
Jones name the pup Lucy because that was going to be one of her baby name and it ’s the name of one of the kids inThe Lion , the Witch , and the Wardrobe , she say .
Before the rescue , the couple had two moulding collie mutts who had go a few years to begin with — within six months of each other . They ’d been opine about getting a new dog and perusing the preferred rescue website . Still , they were holding off until after their summertime travels . “ Kendall just kept say , ‘ I like there was some serendipity , ’ ” Jones say .
Serendipity came pick apart along the side of a highway .
