Ricardo Rodriguez and his dog, Russ, were reunited after months apart. Russ survived a rare snowstorm and the Caldor Fire to make it home.
in parts of the Lake Tahoe region.All hope was not lost, though. Wendy Jones, who operates animal organizations TLC 4 Furry Friends & Tahoe PAWS, said that she was alerted to a dog in need of rescue after the snowstorm.
Jones sent two volunteers, Elsa and Leona, out in the freezing temperatures on snowshoes to look for Russ in the thigh-high snow. The two volunteers spotted Russ in the distance, curled up motionless into a ball until he lifted his head.Leona described the moment they found Russ as an “absolute joy.”
“I think both of us went up the hill thinking this was going to be a recovery, not a rescue,” she explained. “He had been up there, most of the day, and it was very cold and snowing all day.”“We were going to get him, no matter what, whether it took us ... all night,” Elsa said. After the rescue, there was only one task left at hand: finding his owner. Luckily, Russ had a microchip, so animal service officers were able to connect Russ to Rodriguez, who was back in Southern California, hundreds of miles away from Lake Tahoe."I thought it was a work call and I answered it ... like 'How can I help you?' And they were like, 'We found your dog in the middle of the snow,'" Rodreguiz recalled.
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