Dog Waits 13 Days for Family At Car Crash Site Before Finally Being Discovered

Kathy Wilkes-Myers says it isn’t unusual to see stray dogs wandering open roads in her home state of Tennessee. But one day as she was walking along the highway and saw a Rottweiler, she noticed something that told her she wasn’t a stray.

“I could tell right away that she was someone’s baby,” Kathy told CBS, mentioning that the dog just didn’t act like a stray dog to her. The dog, Ella, was emaciated and had been surviving only on the water from a nearby drainage ditch. It isn’t unheard of for people to dump dogs in the middle of nowhere. But Ella was telling Kathy that she hadn’t been ditched.

Kathy started to wonder about the dog and remembered that there had been a terrible accident right where she found Ella. As she walked closer to the accident site and where Ella was, she noticed that there was a pile of wreckage and personal items. Ella had been collecting what was left of the car accident – what was left of her family.

“She was hoping her family could come back. But they couldn’t. They couldn’t come back. It just breaks your heart. It was like she was sleeping with them – or waiting for them.” said Kathy.

Even though Kathy assumed the drivers must not have survived the accident, she called the highway patrol anyway. Having hoped to be able to reunite the dog with her family, Kathy was hoping for the best but expecting the worse.

The full story is that Ella was thrown from the car during the accident. The rescue crew didn’t find her, so she spent 13 days scavenging and waiting for the family to return but they never did. The family had survived but they thought that Ella hadn’t survived the crash! Kathy’s big heart for animals and detective work meant that Ella would be reunited with her family! Watch the heartwarming reunion below.

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