Kathy Wilkes-Myers was walking along the highway one day
when she noticed something bizarre. It wasn’t unusual to see a stray animal
wandering the open roads, but there was something about this Rottweiler that
told Kathy she wasn’t a stray.
“I could just tell right away she was somebody’s baby. She
just didn’t act like a stray dog to me,” Kathy told CBS. The dog, Ella, was
emaciated, surviving only on the water from a drainage ditch.
Although it isn’t unheard of for someone to dump a dog in
the middle of nowhere, Ella was communicating, somehow, that she wasn’t thrown
away. Kathy did some digging.
She remembered there had been a terrible car accident right
where she found Ella. When she returned to the accident site, she noticed
something: It was a pile of wreckage and personal items.
Ella had been collecting what was left of the car accident
— what was left of her family.
“She was hoping her family could come back. But they
couldn’t. They couldn’t come back. It just breaks your heart,” said Kathy. “It
was like she was sleeping with them — or waiting with them.”
It may seem unusual for a dog to remember its owners, but
it happens all the time. In another story, veteran Jessica Gutierrez was
separated from her dog for 5 years. When they reunited? The dog remembered her
as clear as day.
Kathy assumed the drivers must’ve been dead, but she called
the highway patrol anyway.
“She gave me the mom’s name and the dad’s name and the
mom’s name was Michelle. And I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is their dog,’ ” she
said.
The full story? Ella was thrown from the car during the
accident. The rescue crew didn’t see her and she spent 13 days scavenging and
waiting for her family to return.
But there’s more: the family survived. They thought Ella
was dead. Thanks to Kathy’s big heart and detective work, she was able to
reunite Ella and her humans. Watch the sweet reunion below!
Please share this story if you think everyone should be as
thoughtful as Kathy when they encounter a stray animal.
