Wolf Dog Digs 200-Foot Tunnel To Rescue Elderly Owners
I thought, ‘we’re trapped, we’re absolutely trapped,’” Eve said.
The 160-pound dog that habitually follows her owners around…eventually found the Fertigs and began digging a path in the snow with her teeth and claws underneath the fallen trees, similar to a mineshaft, and barking as if to tell them to follow.
After Shana tunneled all the way to the house…she came back, grabbed the sleeve of Eve’s jacket, and threw the 86-pound woman over her back and neck, which Eve described as “as wide as our kitchen shelf.”
Norman grabbed Eve’s legs, and the dog pulled them through the tunnel, under the trees and through an opening in a fence to the house, at which they arrived around 2 a.m.
“It was the most heroic thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” Eve said. “We opened the door and we just fell in and she laid on top of us and just stayed there and kept us alive … that’s where we laid until the fireman found us.”
There was no electricity and no heat in the house, so Shana acted as a living, breathing generator for the exhausted Fertigs until the local fire department arrived the next morning.
[Firefighters] kept looking at that tunnel and said, ‘we’ve never seen anything like it.’”
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