- Inspectors had heard barking and scratching coming from a container in Texas
- They found a scraggly pup who was with out meals and water for over every week
- The canine, which has been nicknamed Connie, was taken to an area animal shelter
Coast Guard inspectors have rescued a bedraggled pooch nicknamed ‘Connie the Container Dog’ from a delivery crate after she was stranded with out meals or water for at the very least eight days.
Video posted to the Coast Guard’s official Facebook web page pans throughout a tower of delivery containers stacked tens of toes within the air.
‘Oh, it is scratching, dude,’ one of many marine inspectors remarks within the footage, recorded Wednesday morning at the Bayport Terminal on the Port of Houston.
The inspectors peer contained in the container after it’s lowered to the bottom – and to their shock, a furry snout pokes out.
Officials later decided that Connie had been trapped inside for at the very least eight days with out meals and water. On the day of her discovery, temperatures soared to a excessive of 75 levels Fahrenheit.
The canine was dirty and ‘undoubtedly fairly skinny,’ in response to Ryan McMahon, a petty officer second class.
He was a part of the group from Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston – together with petty officers Bryan Qainscott, Lucas Loe and Jose Reyes – who heard barking and stopped the container from being loaded onto a cargo ship.
‘As quickly as we opened it, we may see the little canine’s face poking out. She was proper there, like she knew we have been going to be there to open it for her,’ McMahon stated.
‘And she simply, she wasn’t scared or something. She simply appeared completely happy greater than something, to be out of that darkish area and within the arms of those who have been going to care for her.’
The males drove Connie to Pasadena Animal Shelter in suburban Houston.
The shelter posted an update to Facebook the next day, writing: ‘This stunning lady was trapped within the container for at the very least every week. She was drained, hungry, and really completely happy to be rescued.
‘Let’s salute the heroes who not solely safeguard our waters but in addition rescue valuable souls in want.’
Connie was then flown to Forever Changed Animal Rescue by Pilots N Paws, a volunteer-led nonprofit.
Following a veterinary analysis, the animal rescue shared on social media that she was a bit underweight and examined optimistic for heartworm.
‘Connie will initially be placed domestically within the DMV within the home of our Founder/Director and Veterinarian Andrea Deoudes the place we will study extra about her to make sure she is adopted into the very best home attainable,’ the group wrote.
Coast Guard officers will not be certain the place the crate got here from, however suspected the scrapped autos inside have been travelling abroad to be offered for elements.
Spokeswoman Chief Petty Officer Corinne Zilnicki stated Connie was probably sitting inside a automobile in a junkyard. ‘And that is how she unintentionally acquired put within the container,’ Zilnicki defined.
The serendipitous rescue occurred simply in time.
‘It would take at the very least one other week to get to the place she was going and two weeks with out meals or water. I don´t assume she would have made it,’ McMahon stated.
The inspectors thought-about adopting Connie themselves earlier than concluding it wasn’t the appropriate time for any of them.
‘We know with all this, she´s going to go to a very good home the place they love her and care for her,’ McMahon stated.
