A 71-year-old’s canine proved to really be man’s greatest pal this week when his trustworthy companion remained by his facet after he acquired tangled in barbed wire and stayed trapped for greater than two days.
South Carolina resident Billy Wayne Kearse disappeared from his home on April 16 after heading out for a fishing journey together with his chihuahua, Cherokee County Sheriff Steve Mueller advised USA TODAY Tuesday.
Kearse is from the town of Gaffney in upstate South Carolina about 50 miles southwest of Charlotte.
On Thursday about 11 a.m., the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office obtained a name from two mates saying they’d been using round looking for Kearse and located his fishing sort out field.
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That identical day, deputies responded to the world the place the person’s fishing gear was discovered and, after a search, found Kearse tangled in barbed wire together with his canine close by.
“He acquired caught making an attempt to climb over the fence and acquired held on the barbed wire because it wrapped round his ankle,” Mueller defined.
After deputies freed him, Kearse was transported him by medical helicopter to a hospital to be handled for dehydration, officers reported.
“The canine wouldn’t come to the officers and ran away from them however was again on the home when officers arrived to inform the household we had positioned their cherished one,” Mueller mentioned.
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Mueller mentioned Kearse remained within the hospital on Tuesday however was bettering day by day and his prognosis for restoration “appears excellent.”
“We are grateful for the 2 residents who had been conscious of the search efforts final night time to find the lacking person and who continued checking their property this morning and notified us after finding the fishing sort out field,” Mueller wrote in a information launch. “Their efforts put us in the proper location and subsequently officers had been profitable in finding him. Now all of us pray for his restoration!”
Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at [email protected] and observe her on X @nataliealund.
