Tiny dog survives eight days in the elements
Published: December 28, 2005
The biggest Christmas present came a day late this year for Lee and Irene DellaSilva of Ogden, Utah. But it’s one they’ll never forget.
Eight days after the DellaSilvas’ six-year-old poodle, Miss Lizzie, was lost during a rollover accident east of Carlin, a Union Pacific crew spotted the black pooch Monday morning on railroad tracks near the crash site.
Miss Lizzie’s travels began after she fled the DellaSilvas’ vehicle after the accident the Sunday before Christmas.
Rescuers kept them from searching for their pet. Then they had to leave the area.
Over eight days, Miss Lizzie traveled without food through coyote territory before lying down in exhaustion on a railway trestle crossing.
The poodle was spotted and rescued by a Union Pacific crew thanks to a “missing dog” poster that the DellaSilvas had provided to a UP outpost.
Since she was on the tracks, they assumed she was dead. Then she weakly popped up her head.
The crew put the train into an emergency stop and went back to rescue the dog, warmed her up, dried her off, cleaned her up and placed her snugly in a work bag for a ride back home.
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