Community Bands Together to Find Dogs Lost in Utah Snowstorm
The family is so grateful to have their dogs home.
Marian Phoenix and their four children have two service dogs named Journey and Zero. On Saturday, Zero and Journey escaped out the front door of the family’s Ogden home after someone came by the house during a blizzard. The family searched in the freezing weather for three hours but could find no sign of the pups.
That's when their neighbors and local law enforcement stepped in to help the family. KSL5TV tweeted the story about these dogs lost in a snowstorm.
According to the report, Phoenix got a call that people had found Journey near the foot of the mountains. They said that they had to follow him for a couple of blocks before being able to capture him. A little while later, Phoenix got another call, and this time it came from Ogden police. They told the family someone reported a dog howling and barking loudly in the blizzard near the Waterfall Canyon parking lot, five miles from their home. An animal control officer hiked the trail in the snowstorm and found the other pup, Zero.
The family expressed how they were grateful for the people who tracked and captured Journey, for the people who called Ogden police hearing Zero yelping in the cold, and for the animal control officer for hiking in the snow to find Zero and rescue him.
“We really would just like to say thank you all for your help,” Melody said. “We’re just so happy that he’s home.”
What a wonderful happy ending to this story!
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