For weeks, a family lived with the fear that their beloved senior dog might never come back. Then came word: 15-year-old Lucy, who had been missing for nearly three weeks, was found alive in Greenville, North Carolina, after being discovered in a ditch, cold, soaked, and in urgent need of medical care.
Lucy was suffering from hypothermia after exposure to water, making the rescue especially urgent. The situation was even more heartbreaking because Lucy is deaf and partially blind — an older dog facing the world alone, unable to fully hear or see the danger around her.
She was safely pulled from the ditch and rushed for veterinary treatment by Officers Ormond and Landry of Greenville Animal Protective Services, giving her the critical care she needed. Not long after, the family who had been searching for her for weeks finally got the news every guardian longs to hear: Lucy was alive, and she was coming home.
“It was the best day of my life,” Lucy’s dad Jamie Hancock told WITN. “As soon as I got the call, I just dropped everything at work, and just took off. I told my boss I gotta go, and I was out…She’s my entire world. I love that dog.”
Lady Freethinker is happy that this sweet senior dog is back home with her family and thanks all who were involved with Lucy’s rescue.
For another heartwarming dog rescue story, read about the pup saved from an irrigation canal by a caring officer.
