Meet Lucky the dog who was saved during Hurricane Harvey!

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With the waters above her paws and a leash tethering her to a pole, the dog looked on the verge of becoming a victim of Hurricane Harvey.

The mongrel was soaked to the skin and apparently abandoned in an area where every human had fled before the storm – until DailyMail.com intervened.

Photographer Ruaridh Connellan rushed across the flood water, which was fortunately not dangerously deep, and untied the dog, who wagged her tail and bounded of to safer ground.

Her name now? Lucky – although she still needs a bit more luck to come her way. Lucky was left tied up by her owners on the land where they had been living in a trailer just outside Victoria.

They seemed to have fled, as did all their neighbors.

Before: A terrified dog was spotted by DailyMail.com photographer Ruaraidh Connellan as record-breaking flood waters rose around her just outside of Victoria. Almost safe: Connellan made his way across the flood water to help rescue the dog, who was tethered to the pole.

 

Whether by accident or design, they left her tied to a post on a leash, where our photographer and reporter her found her on Saturday afternoon.

She was happy to be free and led DailyMail.com to her friends: another dog, a pit bull cross breed, two cats and a small pony.

My hero: Connellan named the dog Lucky. And when he went back 24 hours after saving her she ran up to him and wanted to play. When Connellan visited the property the next day, Lucky ran out and greeted him while wagging her tail. He brought the pup food and fresh water.

 

The pit bull cross was also tied up, but on a longer leach and on the dry land; suggesting that Lucky being tied up in a more dangerous spot may well have been an accident of panicked people fleeing from danger.

Connellan said he couldn’t sleep that night wondering if the pet pooch was OK. And the next day DailyMail.com returned to the trailer.

Just look at her now. Connellan spent the night worrying about Lucky, but when he returned she seemed to be in good spirits

 

‘I was happy to see Lucky when I pulled up to the property, she came running out through the fence and greeted and me wagging her tail,’ Connellan said.

‘I fed Lucky some food I had in my car and gave her some fresh water.’

Lucky and the other animals appeared frightened but otherwise safe, for now.

Lucky’s friends: Lucky waswith another dog – a pitbull mix – two cats and a pony. DailyMail.com has called the local animal control agency to report the abandoned animals. They are safe but will need human attention soon
Connellan called the local animal control agency to report the abandoned animals and plans on adopting Lucky if possible. But the authorities are understandably overwhelmed by the scale of the unfolding disaster.

So far DailyMail.com has been unable to trace who was living at the trailer before they left Lucky tied up. She and the other animals had been well-looked after before they left, but they need human attention soon.

Connellan would be happy to step into the breach, after forming a bond with the energetic mongrel.

Lucky’s friend, a pit bull mix, was also found tied up on higher ground. He had more freedom to roam around dry land but not enough – so DailyMail.com set him free too

 

‘I’d love to take Lucky to live with me in New York. But sadly I’ll have to wait and go through the proper channels.

‘I’m disappointed in people who abandon their animals. I feel good about what I did. There is no doubt in my mind, if I didn’t unleash Lucky from the tree, she would have drowned.’

Do you know Lucky’s owners? Email newsus@mailonline.com



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  4. Seema Joshi

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    Absolutely NOT! This sweet furbaby needs a NEW family who will love and PROTECT her. The previous idiot and thoughtless owners, not to mention cruel left her to die. Animals have feelings and emotions, as do all leaving beings. What the h*** did they think? That this sweet girl wouldn’t be terrified and wouldn’t have suffered a horrific death if she had drowned. They do not deserve any animal!

  18. Smiljana Savicic

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    i’m not sure that’s the situation. if people are taking their kids, i’m not seeing how this is any different. and they’re not holding on for dear life over a cliff. they’re evacuating. i don’t know why they can’t evacuate WITH the dog.

  19. Heather Warden

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    Why would try to find the owners for any of These animals left to die or hopefully be ok? Just awful I would save my pets before myself! Some of these pictures I’ve seen circulating breaks my heart! So glad there are some good people out there helping these animals!

  21. Craig Sanchez

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    f**k the “owners”! The rescuers should have first option to give that poor pet a new home. Second, anyone who is responsible and loving and wants to give them a new home. Those “owners” that would tie their pet to a tree or kennel them in rising water or any situation without regard to their “pet’s” life can suck a big bag of dicks!

  22. Trish Beckner Wumkes

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    Ellee we know she was tied to a pole, alone. Not sure what other details are needed. Never wouldve had my dogs tied to a pole especially during a hurricane. If you do not see an issue with this, well I hope you don’t have pets.

  23. Stacy Holden

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    Why find his owners? They tied him up so that he could drown? I don’t think they deserve him back. Why wouldn’t they have just let him go fee so he had a fighting chance of saving himself?

  27. Charlene Koger Finley

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    Sandra Powell, I’m like you. I prayed someone would be kind enough to save her. I cried when I saw the pictures. Couldn’t sleep with that image imprinted in my brain I can’t fathom leaving an animal tied up like that. My first thought is always of my family and fur babies in stressful situations. God bless the kind-hearted man who rescued Lucky and the others. Hope he can adopt her as she deserves someone to love her to the moon and back!

  48. Kathleen Koneski

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    Why would you want to return her to her owners, they left her tied to a tree to die without the ability to even help herself, they do not deserve to every own another animal again. They only need to be found to be punished for this cruelty. Where has our humanity gone.

  49. Doop Blake

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    I like to know the scum backs who did that to their dog,I like to tie them to the tree and let them feel to be tied up like that.hope the puppie find some real people who loves him.

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