Omaha Dog's Incredible Story Of Survival - She Goes Home!
Reporter: WOWT-TV
Posted: 12:00 PM Dec 14, 2010
Through a steady stream of tears, Tammy Frasure, the owner of a dog named Layla says her family has received the best Christmas gift ever.
The Omaha family has been reunited with their lost dog. How the pet is even still alive is a source of wonder and sadness.
The dog, named Layla, went missing on October 26th. Her owners, Fred and Tammy Frasure, did everything they could to find the dog but with no success.
Then on Monday afternoon, the Nebraska Humane Society received a call that a dog was running loose near the Papio Creek just off 84th street and Grover. The dog appeared to be limping.
The NHS found Layla, and they found why she was limping. Layla had stepped into an illegal "leg hold trap." The device had been on her leg so long and so tight the leg had to be amputated. Her owner thinks the trap may have been on the dog's leg for two days or more.
Mark Langan of the Nebraska Humane Society was even less certain.
"The trap is pretty rusted we don't know how long the trap had been set down here by the creek or even how long the trap had been around the dog's leg," Langan said.
The leg-hold trap was made in North Korea.
"These traps are very very dangerous and they snap very very quickly which is why they are absolutely 100% illegal to have set in the city limits of Omaha," Langan said.
A friend contacted Tammy on Facebook, telling her Layla may have been found.
"And I was like oh my gosh I can't believe it," Tammy said as tears filled her eyes. "I really didn't think it was her until I saw her. This is like the best Christmas present ever I can't even tell you. I'm just so happy yeah that she's back."
With the dog missing for almost two months, Frasure was concerned when the weather turned cold.
"We really didn't think that she was going to make it," she said.
It turns out, the cold may have actually saved Layla's life by helping to slow any possible infection. Even so, the dog had to have her front leg amputated.
The mystery surrounding the trap raises several concerns.
The Papio Creek is a natural attraction to all kinds of wildlife and even neighborhood kids. There is no way of knowing if there are more of these traps along this creek.
The biggest problem with the traps is that once they are put down on the ground and set, in tall grass and snow, they are almost invisible.
"Why somebody would set a trap like this is unknown possibly trying to trap raccoons for the pelts of the raccoons there might be a little money in that," Langan said.
"Unfortunately it was our dog and because of that little tiny trap its costing a lot of money, but thank God it wasn't a child," Tammy said. "I don't know what somebody would be thinking setting one of those out."
Layla was reunited with her owners Tuesday evening when they picked her up at the vet clinic to take her home.
The NHS is offering $1,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for setting the trap.
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