Officer spotted ‘small pile of fur’ in middle of NC street. Then it moved
Three police officers in North Carolina are credited with saving “a life in need” after one noticed what looked like a tiny pile of nothing in the road.
A sergeant with the Fayetteville Police Department “spotted what she thought was a small pile of fur lying still in the middle of the street” on Tuesday, Nov. 4, the police department said in a Facebook post.
“Fearing the worst, she stopped to check, only for the ’pile’ to slowly lift its head and wag its tail,” the police department said. “It was a small, matted dog who looked like he had given up, lying motionless in the road as if he had nowhere left to go.”
Back up arrived to help with the makeover task.
Another sergeant with “only a pair of trauma shears from her patrol kit” gave the pup a “much-needed roadside haircut, cutting away months of painful mats,” the department said.
The first sergeant fed the dog and “made some calls.” Soon, an officer arrived on scene and “was immediately taken by the little guy, offering to take him home for a bath, a vet visit, a meal, and some long-overdue kindness.”
The makeover was soon done and the pup who was left to fend for himself now had a brand new (temporary) home to curl up in.
“Within hours, the transformation was remarkable. The same little dog who had been abandoned and hopeless was now clean, comfortable, and showered with care,” the department said.
The officer who offered to take the dog home now plans to foster him.
However, “both sergeants strongly suspect it will be a foster fail,” the department said.
Fayetteville is about a 65-mile drive southwest from Raleigh.