Cyclist finds injured puppy, carries pooch on his back to safety

He made it through surgery, now has forever home

He made it through surgery, now has forever home

WEBVTT JOURNEY. A FIRST GLANCE BO A FIVE MONTH OLD GREAT DANE-MIX, LOOKS LIKE ANY OTHER PUPPY. HE’S HAD QUITE THE JOURNEY OVER THIS PAST WEEK, LOOK CLOSELY YOU’LL SEE A CAST ON HIS FRONT FOOT AND A LINE OF STAPLES IN HIS BACK LEG. ON THE STREETS OF COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, LAST TUESDAY JARETT LITTLE, CAME UPON THE INJURED PUP. BO AS HE’S NOW KNOWN RAN UP OUT OF THE WOODS. HE WAS REALLY HUNGRY. WE COULD TELL HE HAD BEEN HIT BY A CAR AND NEEDED SOME HELP. I PICKED HIM UP AND PUT HIM ON MY SHOULDERS LIKE I DO MY LITTLE GIRL. WE RODE HIM ALL THE WAY INTO TOWN. HE HELD ON. FOR HIM TO BE SO TRUSTING KNOWING THAT WE WERE TRYING TO HELP HIM THAT WAS PRETTY COOL. THAT’S WHERE ANDREA SHAW OF GORHAM ENTERS THE PICTURE. I LOOKED UP AND THERE WAS THIS CUTE LITTLE DOG AND HE RAN UP TO ME AND WAS CLEARLY DEAD LAME AND JUMPED INTO MY ARMS AND GIVE ME KISSES. SHAW WAS IN GEORGIA ON A BUSINESS TRIP -OUT FOR A WALK AFTER DINNER WHEN SHE CROSSED PATHS WITH JARRETT AND THE INJURED PUP. I LOOKED DOWN I HAD BLOOD ON MY SHIRT. SHE RUSHED THE DOG ANIMAL EMERGENCY CENTER. THEY STABILIZED HIM AND TOOK THE INITIAL SET OF X-RAYS AND SAID HE HAD MULTIPLE FRACTURES. AND A BROKEN TOOTH TOO. SHE SPENT HER OWN MONEY TO PAY FOR THE VET BILLS AND BROUGHT BO SHORT FOR COLUMBO AFTER COLUMBUS, THE CITY WHERE HE WAS RESCUED BACK IN GORHAM. HE’S NOW MAKING FAST FRIENDS WITH THE HORSES AND ANDREA’S 5-YEAR-OLD SON. YEAH IT WAS FATE HE WAS MEANT TO BE MINE. WE WERE MEANT TO BE TOGETHER. ANY DOG THAT WANTS TO BE HELPED AND TO MAKE IT AND IS GOING TO FIGHT THAT HARD DESERVES A CHANCE. AND ANY DOG THAT’S AS HAPPY AS THIS ONE IS, WITH THE AMOUNT OF PAIN THAT HE HAS TO BE IN, IS A PHENOMENAL PERSONALITY. AND SO, FOR THE NEXT 8 WEEKS OR SO, BO WILL SPEND MOST OF HIS TIME IN THIS CRATE SO HIS INJURIES HEAL APPROPRIATELY. IF YOU’D LIKE TO FOLLOW HIS PROGRESS, HE EVEN HAS HIS OWN FACEBOOK PAGE CALLED ADVENTURES OF COLUMBO SO CHECK THAT OUT. IN GORHAM, JIM KEI

Cyclist finds injured puppy, carries pooch on his back to safety

He made it through surgery, now has forever home

Here’s one more reason to keep a close eye on your surroundings: You might come across an injured puppy just begging to be saved.That's what happened about 7 miles outside Columbus, Georgia. A group of cyclists noticed an abandoned puppy in pretty bad shape in the distance, as the Ledger-Enquirer reported.The puppy, a 5-month-old male great Dane mix, had apparently been hit by a vehicle . He had road rash, a broken hind leg, a broken toe in its paw and was obviously malnourished, with his ribs visible under his coat. Cyclists Chris Dixon and Jarrett Little, who were on the group bike ride, tempted the puppy with a handful of energy chews, which he gobbled right up. “We couldn’t leave him,” Little told the Ledger-Enquirer. “Out there where he was next to Oxbow, he was going to end up alligator food. ... In my head, it was, ‘We’re saving you from that now, we will figure out the rest later.’” The logistics of getting the dog back to safety were tough. At first, Dixon, who’s relatively new to cycling, tried to carry the puppy on her handlebars, but that didn’t work too well. So Little tried the piggyback method: He hoisted the dog on his shoulders, put its legs in his jersey’s back pockets and braced the dog with one hand. That worked for most of the ride, but for the last 2 miles, Little had to shift the dog around his neck and hold him — and ride the rest of the way with no hands, according to the Ledger-Enquirer. When the group reached Columbus, the dog’s luck got even better: They walked by Andrea Shaw, a Maine native in town on business. The dog went right to her and licked her, bleeding all over her new shirt. “It was immediate,” Dixon said to the paper. “She said, ‘I am keeping this dog.’” That was the beginning of a forever home for the dog, who Shaw named Columbo. She created a Facebook page for the injured pup, the Adventures of Columbo, which details his journey after his rescue: first surgery, then a trip to Shaw’s horse farm in Maine. Thanks to the quick thinking of the cyclists, the dog is recovering and adjusting well to his new home.

Here’s one more reason to keep a close eye on your surroundings: You might come across an injured puppy just begging to be saved.

That's what happened about 7 miles outside Columbus, Georgia. A group of cyclists noticed an abandoned puppy in pretty bad shape in the distance, as the Ledger-Enquirer .

The puppy, a 5-month-old male great Dane mix, had apparently been hit by a vehicle . He had road rash, a broken hind leg, a broken toe in its paw and was obviously malnourished, with his ribs visible under his coat.

Cyclists Chris Dixon and Jarrett Little, who were on the group bike ride, tempted the puppy with a handful of energy chews, which he gobbled right up.

“We couldn’t leave him,” Little told the . “Out there where he was next to Oxbow, he was going to end up alligator food. ... In my head, it was, ‘We’re saving you from that now, we will figure out the rest later.’”

The logistics of getting the dog back to safety were tough. At first, Dixon, who’s relatively new to cycling, tried to carry the puppy on her handlebars, but that didn’t work too well. So Little tried the piggyback method: He hoisted the dog on his shoulders, put its legs in his jersey’s back pockets and braced the dog with one hand.

That worked for most of the ride, but for the last 2 miles, Little had to shift the dog around his neck and hold him — and ride the rest of the way with no hands, according to the Ledger-Enquirer.

When the group reached Columbus, the dog’s luck got even better: They walked by Andrea Shaw, a Maine native in town on business. The dog went right to her and licked her, bleeding all over her new shirt.

“It was immediate,” Dixon said to the paper. “She said, ‘I am keeping this dog.’”

That was the beginning of a forever home for the dog, who Shaw named Columbo. She created a Facebook page for the injured pup, the , which details his journey after his rescue: first surgery, then a trip to Shaw’s horse farm in Maine.

Thanks to the quick thinking of the cyclists, the dog is recovering and adjusting well to his new home.

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