A pleasant canine who shocked Coast Guard inspectors by turning up inside a transport container had one other shock in retailer ― she’s pregnant.
Connie, because the golden-furred canine is now named, was rescued final month in Texas after officers on the Port of Houston, inspecting containers to be shipped abroad, heard barking and scratching coming from inside one of many them.
The telltale sounds have been coming from a container 25 toes within the air, necessitating a crane to deliver it right down to the bottom.
“As soon as we opened it, we could see the little dog’s face poking out,” Ryan McMahon, a petty officer 2nd class, told The Associated Press.
Petty Officer 1st Class Lucas Loe/U.S. Coast Guard through AP
The canine had been caught within the container for at the very least eight days.
“She just seemed happy more than anything, to be out of that dark space and in the arms of people that were going to take care of her,” McMahon mentioned.
On the automotive journey to a neighborhood animal shelter, Connie “just wanted to be pet the entire time,” Coast Guard Petty Officer third Class Jose Reyes told The Washington Post.
Connie, quick for “Connie the container dog,” had no microchip, collar or ID. After being held on the shelter in case an proprietor got here ahead, she was in the end taken in by Maryland-based nonprofit Forever Changed Animal Rescue.
On Wednesday, the rescue organization introduced {that a} veterinary examination had decided Connie was a mother-to-be.
“The fetuses have strong heartbeats and were bouncing around, so while her pregnancy is guarded due to her being without food and water for 8 days or more, we are hopeful given what we could see,” the nonprofit wrote on social media.
Petty Officer 1st Class Lucas Loe/U.S. Coast Guard through AP
The new improvement signifies that Connie will keep beneath the care of the rescue organization all through her being pregnant. Assuming that every one goes nicely, she and her puppies will finally go up for adoption within the Washington metropolitan space.
Dr. Andrea Deoudes, a veterinarian and FCAR’s founder, is assured that Connie will discover “an amazing home” and informed the Post that she anticipated to “receive a million applications.”
Deoudes additionally informed the Post that whereas Connie’s being pregnant “seems like a really happy thing,” it’s additionally “tough” as a result of “there’s already five puppies alive somewhere else that may be euthanized because they’re not going to be get adopted.”
It’s not clear how Connie ended up contained in the transport container within the first place. The container was stuffed with junked automobiles slated to be bought for components, so one concept is that Connie was inside a automotive in a junkyard and wound up within the container together with it.
