Blind dog rescued after being lost for weeks in the cold
A blind dog who wandered away from her Ester, Alaska in the United States, home during a cold snap has been reunited with her owner.
The 11-year-old Labrador retriever named Madera ventured away from home on when the temperature dipped to 40 degrees below zero.
Her owner, Ed Davis, said he didn't expect to find her alive. "My best hope was to walk those trails and look for a track that might be hers," he said. "My best hope was to find a frozen dog."
Madera is completely blind because of an autoimmune disease. Photo: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
A man riding a bike accompanied by a bell-wearing dog located Madera in the woods last week, about a half-mile from the Davis' home, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. Madera let out a whine when she heard the dog's bell.
Davis said his dog lost over six kilograms but was, overall, healthy.
The man who rescued her, Constantine Khrulev, asked for the $US100 reward money to go to the Fairbanks Animal Shelter Fund. Davis was so impressed by the gesture that he increased the donation to $US250.
Madera is completely blind because of an autoimmune disease.
This isn't the only tale of a lost, blind dog to end happily in Fairbanks in recent years: A blind eight-year-old dog named Abby walked more than 10 miles in 2012 from her home in the Two River area before she was rescued.
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