Lost dog tale has a happy ending
Cindy Wolff, Scripps Howard News Service
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
MEMPHIS — For 20 days the light brown dog with a black nose and sweet eyes hid in the mud, weeds and under runways at Memphis International Airport, running from the deafening sounds of jet engines.
She was found on New Year’s Day by Pam Bell, a woman who scoured muddy fields two or three times a day for three weeks searching for the dog named Bailey.
The starving dog was caught in a steel cage trap baited with fried chicken.
Bailey came to Memphis on Dec. 12 on a flight from Seattle. Her owners Chris and Laura Pierce shipped the Great Dane mix to stay with Chris’s stepfather and mother Richard and Lelia Ripley. Lelia said a Northwest employee wanted to see Bailey and opened the door to her crate. The dog bolted across the runway and disappeared.
Bell heard about Bailey and decided to help in the search.
Bell woke up on New Year’s Day morning and heard a dog had been found.
There was Bailey in the cage, skinny, scared and muddy.
Bell took pictures and e-mailed them to the Pierces.
Chris said that Bailey knows how to sit and do a high-five.
Bell squatted down and asked Bailey to sit.
“Give me a high-five.”
The dog’s paw went into the air and touched Bell’s hand.
The e-mail arrived.
“That’s her. That’s her. That’s her,” Chris said. “Look how skinny she is. Oh man. That’s Bailey. No question about it. My wife is crying. We’re all crying. This is a great way to start the New Year.”
Bell will foster Bailey for a few days until Richard Ripley recovers from knee surgery that is scheduled this week.
Source: http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2007/jan/03/lost-dog-tale-has-happy-ending/
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