Danny Spanks of A Safefurr Place Animal Rescue was on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California to help another rescue organization locate an abandoned dog when a tiny pup run across the road, about a hundred yards in front of him. He pulled over and tried to help. He thought it would be easy, but he was wrong.
The rescuer left to get some hotdogs and a leash from his car. But once he turned back around, the pooch was gone. It wandered deep into a private truck yard and completely disappeared.
Danny came back to the same site for days, but he no longer saw the dog. He feared for the worst. He thought he lost his only chance of helping the animal.
Four weeks later, Danny went out to catch another stray. He set up the trap but the dog wasn’t cooperative and ran away. The rescuer then realized he wasn’t far from where he spotted the little dog so he decided to drop by.
As he expected, Danny saw a dog nearby. But it wasn’t the same dog he saw a month ago. He tried to befriend it, but just as the previous dog did, it also bolted and disappeared in the truck yard.
Danny thought it was over until he heard a commotion from inside the yard. He heard the dog barked, and there was a man’s voice, too. He called out to him and asked if it was a stray, and the man said yes.
The trucker, named Greg Flores, agreed to meet with Danny at the front gate. The little scruffy dog followed him, and so did a second dog. To Danny’s surprise, it was the same pup he failed to rescue from a month ago.
Greg named the dogs Mahlo and Scrappy. He wanted a family for them and he knew Danny could help find them a home. So on that same night, he agreed to let the rescuer take the animals.
Danny fostered Mahlo and Scrappy until there was room at the Santa Ynez Valley Humane Society for them. They did great in their new environment. And before long, both dogs found their happy endings in the same home.
Credits to A Safefurr Place Animal Rescue