A couple of years back, a family of hikers decided to have an adventurous stroll at the Mt. Glorious National Park in Queensland, Australia.

On their way, they stumbled upon a dog that looked pretty much beaten up by the rapids of a rocky pool. They were able to share the series of events that had happened that day using a Reddit account under the username “dangerm0use.”

A fortunate encounter.

As mentioned in their story, they were walking along a creek bed when they noticed an unknown disturbance in one of the deep pools ahead. At first, they weren’t sure what or who was causing it, whether it was some sort of a scary creature or not.

Out of curiosity, they decided to quietly walk closer, and there, their hearts were immediately crushed by what they saw – a poor dog soaked in the water.

The woman wrote, “We approached cautiously, not knowing whether this was a domesticated or wild dog. Either way, we couldn’t leave it there in the freezing water. It was completely exhausted from it’s attempts to struggle out of the deep section it had fallen into, and there’s no way it would’ve survived the night.”

They weren’t sure if the dog was going to be defensive or not, nonetheless, they acted fast to save the drenched doggo. They had no idea how long the dog had been in the water and they knew every second mattered at that time.

“We gently looped a rope around it’s head/shoulders, and with a slight struggle, dragged it out onto the rocks. The dog wasn’t aggressive at all, and in fact very timidly lumbered away from us, up the bank and into the thick lantana beside the pool. As it turned away from us, we saw that she was a desexed female – at some stage she must’ve been domesticated,” the woman continued telling how they dragged the dog to safety.

A missing dog?

After saving it from all sorts of danger, the rescued dog didn’t show any signs of joining where the family was headed. However, the family of hikers had no plans of leaving the poor dog.

“She was in a completely inhospitable section of bush, in a gully with cliff face and hectares of national park on one side, and a scrubby, rocky, unscaleable bank up to a busy road on the other. There were also no houses within at least a 5km radius, and no obvious way for her to make her own way out of the gully,” the woman eplained. “We saw her podgy little rump disappear into the lantana, giving us no other option than to wade in after her.”

They also tried getting the dog’s trust by comforting her. They knew the pooch lost a lot of her strength after battling through the current of the water. The family wanted her to recover her strength first so she could stand up and walk, hoping she knew her way home.

“She was very dejected, and obviously still exhausted. I snapped away the lantana from her little nest, and gradually got in closer, letting her get used to us being there. She was still apprehensive, but not aggressive, so after a while I took a chance and gave her a scratch on the head … and she rewarded me with a lick on the hand,” the woman continued with her post. “Despite obviously having been camped there for at least a few days, we noted that our little companion wasn’t exactly lacking in mass, leading us to dub her Miss Piggy. We spent a bit more time getting acquainted with Miss Piggy, while we started to hatch a plan to get her out.”

Time to get her out of the woods.

The family was able to make a harness and pull Miss Piggy out of that hopeless place.

The woman continued with her story and wrote, “The little sweetie showed her appreciation of our patience by wriggling over to me and resting her head on my leg. I hadn’t wanted to be too familiar with her to this point, but she gave me the go ahead to give her a reassuring cuddle. It was becoming pretty obvious that she wouldn’t be able to make it up the bank unless we carried her, and so we were throwing around options for a harness and hammock set-up, using towels and ropes. My husband had a brainwave, remembering that we had a large canvas bag in our car (15 mins walk back up the creek). We figured that if we could get her into the bag, we could MacGyver together some apparatus to transport her out.”

They came up with a makeshift emergency bed and they lifted Miss Piggy. It took them 30 minutes just to reach the 3-meter climb that’s directed to a street.

Turns out, nearly 15 kilometers north of where Miss Piggy was found, her owner was still putting his hopes high that his dog was still alive. They soon found out that Elly-Bobby, the lost dog’s real name, had gone missing on June 30, and was found on July 23.

Where had she been aside from that deserted area?

“Her condition was surprisingly good for a pup that had been homeless for nearly a month. We also have no idea how she came to be in such an isolated part of the bush, with no signs of injury and only basic signs of exposure. We’d speculated that perhaps she was picked up and later dumped, or that she’d found a temporary home but hadn’t stuck around. Whatever the story, we were just happy to have been in the right place at the right time to be able to help her,” wrote the woman online.

Regardless, Elly-Bobby was indeed an adventurer, wouldn’t you agree?

During her absence, Elly-Bobby’s owner never stopped looking for her. He used all means like social media and putting up neighborhood posters just to find her. After all, what mattered the most was that nothing bad happened to his dog.

It’s all thanks to the kindhearted family of hikers who didn’t give up on saving the stranded missing dog.

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Source: The Animal Rescue Site, Reddit