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Faygo Kid

(21,478 posts)
Tue Dec 25, 2012, 08:21 PM Dec 2012

Community effort brings missing blind dog home for Christmas

Source: Fairbanks News-Miner

McKenzie Grapengeter was resigned to the fact that her family would never see their blind 8-year-old dog, Abby, again.

Abby, who they raised up from an animal shelter puppy, usually spent afternoons sniffing around their five-acre lot off 14-mile Chena Hot Springs Road, but went missing on Dec. 13 during the worst part of the recent snow storms.

The family searched and searched the neighborhood, but as hours turned to days and temperatures plummeted to a frigid 40 below zero, Grapengeter wasn’t so sure they’d find the short-haired brown-and-white mixed breed dog who began bumping into household fixtures a few years ago when she went blind.

But then, on Sunday, she got a call.

Abby had been found. A week after she had gone missing, during nights where the mercury dipped well below minus 40, she had been found more than 10 miles away by trails.

“It’s a miracle, there’s no other words to describe it,” she said, emotion choking her voice and tears coming to her eyes. “We never expected to have her to be returned safe and alive. She’s blind. It’s a miracle. It’s amazing.” . . .

Read more: http://www.newsminer.com/view/full_story/21231391/article-Community-effort-brings-missing-blind-dog-home-for-Christmas?instance=home_news_window_left_top_1



Merry Christmas.

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Community effort brings missing blind dog home for Christmas (Original Post) Faygo Kid Dec 2012 OP
Great and Happy Ending Shuhered Dec 2012 #1
I can't imagine life without dogs. Faygo Kid Dec 2012 #3
I love animals. . . BigDemVoter Dec 2012 #2
They have a blind dog they let roam outside unattended? MotherPetrie Dec 2012 #4
Stupid shits for sure and meanwhile they get this glinda Dec 2012 #13
Agreed nt newfie11 Dec 2012 #15
My bichon has diabetes and is going blind. broiles Dec 2012 #5
He's lucky. He has you. Faygo Kid Dec 2012 #9
I'm heaven05 Dec 2012 #6
A nice story. a la izquierda Dec 2012 #7
They will treasure that picture ashling Dec 2012 #8
What a happy ending! copperearth Dec 2012 #10
Such a sweet story. Blue_In_AK Dec 2012 #11
Adorable photo! Quantess Dec 2012 #12
That is a fair bit to go in really cold weather. Glad they got her back safely. uppityperson Dec 2012 #14
Merry Xmas to Abby and her family. leveymg Dec 2012 #16

Shuhered

(200 posts)
1. Great and Happy Ending
Tue Dec 25, 2012, 08:29 PM
Dec 2012

We have 2 goldens and recently our 14 yo Husky, blind with diabetes, died. Dogs are such a special part of our lives. May have to get another husky. Merry Christmas to your family including the baby dog.

Faygo Kid

(21,478 posts)
3. I can't imagine life without dogs.
Tue Dec 25, 2012, 08:34 PM
Dec 2012

First ever domesticated animal. I figure they likely showed up around the early campfires and gave humans "the look." And they got their treats, and that was it.

Down to just one now, and she's 12. My dogs have mattered just about as much to me as my people, only I never had to divorce them.

glinda

(14,807 posts)
13. Stupid shits for sure and meanwhile they get this
Wed Dec 26, 2012, 12:21 AM
Dec 2012

"cutesy" article written. Poor pup could have died.

broiles

(1,367 posts)
5. My bichon has diabetes and is going blind.
Tue Dec 25, 2012, 09:05 PM
Dec 2012

We give him shot twice a day and he is doing well, but the cataracts are developing in both eyes. When the vet tells us we will have them removed. He is such a good dog. After he eats he sits a waits patiently for his shot.

copperearth

(117 posts)
10. What a happy ending!
Tue Dec 25, 2012, 10:58 PM
Dec 2012

A blind dog has four more sharply honed senses. They are amazing! Actually a blind dog has a heck of a lot better chance for survival than a deaf dog does.

Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)
11. Such a sweet story.
Tue Dec 25, 2012, 11:12 PM
Dec 2012

I was just reading this in the Anchorage paper. This really is a miracle...it's been remarkably cold up here this year.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
14. That is a fair bit to go in really cold weather. Glad they got her back safely.
Wed Dec 26, 2012, 12:31 AM
Dec 2012

thank you for the nice story. Too much bs in the world, good to read something nice.

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