
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.

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

‘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.’
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Djluikon Kon
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f**k them get him a new home were he won’t be abandoned. ..
Klaus Koehler
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Lucky needs to find NEW owners. You know, ones that won’t tie him out in a storm and leave him to drown.
Veronica Perez
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Find new home! You don’t leave your family behind let alone tied up. Prayers for everyone and animals.
Laura Peck
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Don’t know the story but no animals should be given back to the people that purposely left them to fend for themselves or die.
LeeAnn Sawyer Johnson
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Why would you look the owners??? They left these babies tied up. They should be tied up!
DaveDana Becker
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Find the owner? The owner tied him to the pole. He needs a new owner.
Sheila Maddox
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Why? So they can be prosecuted, I hope…
Suellane Bellido
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Agree
Nicky Parsons
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f**k wits should not have a dog ban them forever
Diane Luna
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Unless it’s to charge the with cruelty, then do. Otherwise find him a loving home where he’s not left to die.
Lyn Edwards
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Totally agree!
Barbara Matthews
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Anyone who would leave her tied to a tree does not need her back..pleaseeeeee find a new owner. I’d never walk away from my dogs
Betty Joan Grayland
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I agree wholeheartedly.
Sheila Murphy
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Shared
Cheryl McClain
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Named right. He is a luck pooch.
Kathryn Peck Balch
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Hope this man gets to keep Lucky! The fact the the owners left her tied up shows they shouldn’t get her back.
Mira Glick
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Um no. They tied her to a pole and left her to drown!
Jane Mayes
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Owners don’t deserve to have a dog
Tracy Denney
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She needs a NEW owner, this one obviously don’t care about him, he left him tied to a pole, they should be changed with animal cruelty!
Karen Knepp
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Needs new caring owers.
Migdalia Flores
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Shared
Jodie Russelli
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We forgot … just doesn’t cut it ….
Jane Navarre
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WTH? that sweet dog should never be given back to whoever left her to die
Susan Smaus
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Omg! Yes. I pray for this sweetheart and all those that were left behind. Unfortunately this is not the only story of dogs tied up and left to drown. Ugh…
Adeana Winterly
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hell no !! she don’t need to go back to the owner who abandoned her !!! someone needs to find a good owner that will never tie her up outside !
Jodie Russelli
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Find the owner and arrest them for animal cruelty !
Lori Powers
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why in all that is right would you want to find her owners unless it is to prosecute them!!! how could anyone tie a dog to a post and then leave them to fend for themselves as the water rises!!! find her a new and loving home!!!
Sue Setchell
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i do hope this poor thing is not going back to owners what ever next x
Lisa Ellison Oliphant
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Isn’t this the dog that was left tied up and doomed to drown…by his owners????…. Unless they r planning to arrest the owners, there is NO WAY I’d help return this baby to his cruel owners.
Francine Leimeister
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Find the owners to put them in jail. Do not surrender that pup to it’s owner.
Lisa Davidson
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Find her new owners who love her like family ❤
Melinda Barkstrom
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I hope they never come forward or if they do no one lets them take this precious pup. She deserves so much better. I am just so happy she was saved.
Kathleen Skokan
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Why would you give this puppy back to the people who left her to drown
Eliana Crema
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Find them for what, exactly?
Bob Sfero
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Find the owners? Are you kidding? The owners can F off.
Nancy Dines
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Please don’t give her back ! Anyone that leaves there dog tied up in a flood doesn’t deserve to have any animal !!
Karen Thomas-Shenot
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There’s no way I’d give that dog back to her owners! Left her tied to a tree in a flood – come on!!!
Audrey Ferragamo
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Owners don’t deserve her.
Jeana Riopelle Mertes
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I think she should just find a new home. She could of drowned chained to that pole. She was probably so scared
Phyllis Lee
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Poor little thing. Glad she was rescued. !!!
Michael Helmly
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I would never leave my baby behind
Pam Wilson
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Why would anyone want to reunite the poor pooch when they left it tied up to drown!!!
Michele Waterman
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Agreed
Kathy Davis
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I my humble opinion: Anyone who tethers a dog to a pole in a flood does not deserve to have the dog back.
Lynn Holzheimer Stolze
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They don’t deserve him back.
Jacquie Broadway
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I am so pleased this little dog is safe I hope she found a safe home. I hope all people and animals are safe soon, it’s so sad to watch people and animals suffering.
Shayna Nevermann
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yes, her owners should be found and arrested! keep dogs far far way from those people
JaimenGreg Werda
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Do not give back to$#%&!@*person who tied her up to die. WTF r u thinking
Jane Jones
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I understand that you cannot always take your animals with you for an emergency evacuation but to leave them shut in a flooding house or tied up is brutal…. As heartbreaking as I can only imagine it would be, at the very least let them free to stand a chance of survival. There are plenty of people rescuing the animals. The rescue shelters will reunite you with them asap… Best of wishes to everyone, 2 and 4 legged during this awful time
Lynn Anderson Votava
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The cameraman who filmed this pup rescue wants to adopt Lucky!