Here at LittleThings, we adore animals of all shapes and sizes, and we know that our readers do too.
Unfortunately, out in the wider world, not everybody gives animals the love and respect they deserve. We would despair, if it weren’t for the good Samaritans we see every day out there righting wrongs for the animal kingdom, like the wonderful people who stopped and helped this scared German shepherd to safety.
They say that tough times bring out the worst in people, but I like to think that what they really do is bring out a person’s true inner nature. When stuck in a tough spot, some people will treat their pets cruelly or abandon them. Others, even in a terrifying situation, will step up to help any creature, great or small.
One sweet Labrador pup named Lucky saw both sides of the coin during the South Carolina flooding in the fall of 2015. He was abandoned by one owner, but ended up finding his forever home in the middle of a scary, chaotic time.
Check out the gallery below to learn more about this “Lucky” pooch and his daring rescue.
A young man named Alex Scroggins was wading through the rising flood waters in Conway helping his mom and sister pack up to leave their flooding home.
Along with a crew of other young men, he was ferrying stuff back and forth in a boat.
As he was wading through the streets, he noticed a distressed yellow lab in a nearby house, but assumed his owner was with him.
After a few repeat trips, Scroggins, keeping an eye on the dog, realized that he was getting more and more agitated.
He decided to check on the pooch and quickly realized that he was all alone.
The pup, quickly christened Lucky, had been left for dead in the deep, treacherous flood.
Working carefully to calm the nervous dog, Scroggins loaded the pooch into a crate he found in the house, and then ferried him, along with his mom’s couch, to dry land.
Though Lucky was nervous at first about all of the moving around, he stuck to Scroggins like glue, clearly aware of whom he had to thank for his rescue.
Safely back on dry land, Scroggins was reluctant to give the dog to a shelter, afraid the pooch would be put down due to overcrowding from the floods, which devastated the region.
Instead, he kept Lucky with him and tracked down his owner in an attempt to return Lucky home.
Scroggins quickly realized that Lucky’s owner, now his former owner, was the one who left him in such bad shape to begin with, despite having plenty of warning to get the dog out before the water rose.
The same man had previously been caught leaving a different dog tied up without food or water.
With zero interest in handing Lucky back over to his abuser, Scroggins decided that there was just one solution: Lucky would stay with him!
Scroggins told the Dodo that his new pet refuses to leave his side, adding, “It makes me feel better knowing [Lucky] is in a better place than he was…If you can help out, try. That's what I hope people take away from this.”
Check out the video of the dramatic rescue below.
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