Jake Bentley

Facebook Fan Reunites Country Star Dierks Bently with Lost Dog
Life With Dogs
January 14, 2013

Dierks Bentley was distraught when his dog Jake went missing Sunday night, and took to social websites to help bring him home.

The Nashville area was rocked with severe thunderstorms.  Jake had been let out in the yard, and a thunderclap likely shook him enough to make him scale the fence.  Bentley immediately tweeted this news, and it was retweeted by thousands of his followers.

Jake is well-known to fans:  he has appeared in Bentley’s music videos “What was I Thinkin,” “Feel that Fire” and “Up on the Ridge.”

Bentley and his friends spent the night combing the area for the frightened dog.   Early Monday morning, fans were delighted to see the country star tweet:  “Omg.  My wife just told me someone found Jake on Facebook and is bringing him to our house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Bentley soon posted a photo of himself with Jake and his rescuer, Anna Belle.  He said in a tweet that the woman “swooped in and picked Jake up after he was almost hit by another car.”

“One of the happiest days of my life.  Grown men don’t cry…yeah right.  Thank you to everyone on Facebook and Twitter that spread the word,” he tweeted.  “P.S. I’m not afraid to admit that the first thing I did this morning when I woke up was to check Twitter to see if Jake had been found.”

Source: http://www.realdogsrealpeople.com/facebook-fan-reunited-country-star-dierks-bentley


Follow-up story at: http://www.hayspost.com/2013/01/16/dierks-bentley-wont-let-his-nearly-lost-dog-jake-out-of-his-sight/

Dierks Bentley Won’t Let His Nearly Lost Dog Jake Out of His Sight
Posted by Theresa Trapp KHAZ Country Music News
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013

Dierks Bentley and his beloved dog Jake have been inseparable since they were reunited Monday morning. Dierks even had Jake with him at a Nashville rehearsal space as he gave members of the media a preview of his new live show, and the dog got just as much, if not more, attention as Dierks himself. After his performance, Dierks filled in a few details on how Jake went missing Sunday night.

It seems Jake doesn’t like to be alone during thunderstorms, and he hopped the fence in Dierks’ backyard Sunday night as a storm moved into Nashville. Dierks was headed to tour rehearsals with Miranda Lambert that night when his wife called to tell him Jake was missing.

“I got down there hoping I’d get a phone call that they’d found him, and they hadn’t,” Dierks says. “Of course, being around Miranda and all her thousands of animals backstage, I couldn’t take it. So, I left and started driving around at 5.”

Dierks drove around until 1 in the morning looking for his dog while posting about it all on Facebook and Twitter. The temperature had dropped to around 30 degrees that night in Nashville, and Dierks had put the wrong collar on Jake that day, which meant Jake had no identification.

While Dierks and several of his friends were looking for Jake, a nurse practitioner in Nashville spotted Dierk’s pup in a busy intersection about to be struck by a car. Since the woman’s own dog had previously been hit by a car, she was compelled to get out and take Jake home with her.

Dierks says, “It all came down to just the right person at the right time.” He adds, “While I was driving around every neighborhood along with everybody else, he was probably chilling out on her couch getting a lot of attention.”

The next morning, the woman took Jake to the vet, but they couldn’t find his embedded identification chip. That’s where the power of social media came in to save the day.

Dierks says of the staff at the vet’s office, “Luckily through Facebook they had heard that I was missing my dog, and they’re like, ‘Oh, I think that’s Jake.’”

Dierks also commented that his Grammy-nominated hit “Home” has even more meaning for him now that his best friend is safe and sound.

On the tour front, Dierks hits the road on the Locked & Reloaded tour with Miranda Lambert Thursday in Columbia, SC.

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