By Veronica M. Cruz
January 27, 2014
After being lost in Northern Arizona for two weeks, Lexi, a German Shepherd mix was returned to her Tucson owners after she was found by two Arizona Department of Transportation workers wandering along a highway near Payson.
On Jan. 9, Steve Maynard and AJ Gonzalez, who work in ADOT's Materials section, were on duty traveling west on State Route 260 toward Payson when they saw Lexi almost get hit by a truck while wandering on an overpass, according to a news release from ADOT.
The pair stopped and were able to get the dog in the truck and over to an ADOT maintenance yard in Payson where they gave her treats.
They checked Lexi's collar and tags and found she was registered in Pima County and tracked down her owners with help from the Pima Animal Care Center, the release said.
They learned Lexi had escaped from her owner's vacation rental near the Mogollon Rim on Christmas Day. She had been wandering in the Woods Canyon Lake forest before Maynard and Gonzalez found her two weeks later about 10 miles away from where she was last seen.
Maynard took Lexi to his home in Phoenix where family members of the owners picked her up, the release said.
“Words cannot express how glad we were to receive that call,” Michael Bauschka, Lexi’s owner, said in a news release. “We are so appreciative that they went out of their way to rescue our dog.”
Source: http://azstarnet.com/news/local/dog-lost-near-payson-returned-to-tucson-owners/article_e4e0949c-8788-11e3-93e0-001a4bcf887a.html
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