Woman Spots Small Scared Dog By A Busy Highway

The Dodo

She's been living by the freeway for 2 years. We talked to Lisa and Haryn about how difficult and scary this rescue was, but the moment they finally were able to save her made it all worth it!

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00:00She was so close to a very busy Los Angeles highway.

00:04She really wanted to be our friend.

00:10I was so close to getting her,

00:12but there was so much risk of her running on the freeway.

00:16I didn't want to make the mistake.

00:20She ran away, and so we lost her trust a little bit.

00:25The next morning, we loaded up everything,

00:27the snares, the net.

00:28We tried different things.

00:30We're waiting for her to go in the trap.

00:32And she wouldn't go in.

00:34She was so smart.

00:36There were people feeding her,

00:37and they had said this dog has been here for a couple of years.

00:40Our next step was we needed to contact the guys

00:43to stop feeding her.

00:44If we could get her a little bit hungry,

00:46she would go into our trap.

00:48It was getting dark.

00:49She ran that way, and I just threw the net.

00:52That was a catch.

00:53You're safe now.

00:56I was so happy when we got her,

00:57because I knew that she was going

00:59to blossom and bloom quickly.

01:06We took her back to Herons, who had agreed to foster her.

01:09Good girl.

01:11We showed her her space.

01:12We set it up with a bed and food and water.

01:16And she had the best night of sleep

01:18that she's ever had that night.

01:21The next day, the first thing we did was a bath.

01:25She was very shy, nervous, scared, but not reactive at all,

01:30kind of just taking it all in.

01:32As soon as I got her out of the bathtub,

01:37that's when she first started to wag her tail.

01:40And she just wanted to lick my face.

01:46She was really into having all the comfort of home life.

01:52I started flow intros with Nico through a puppy gate.

01:57And they would go nose to nose, tail wagging.

02:04The moments with Nico where they're having fun

02:07and just letting loose like dogs, that's something

02:11that means a lot to her.

02:12Every day, she's just learned so much.

02:15Like, it's really, really cute to see a dog that

02:17was so insecure and so nervous to, like, be a dog.

02:21I painted this picture of her the other day.

02:24This is just, like, her face, you know?

02:26Like, it's always just, like, happy, smiling.

02:29That's, like, her personality.

02:31We're setting her up for success.

02:33I have the time.

02:34I have the space to foster.

02:36It's not sustainable for me to adopt them all.

02:39And I want to save the dogs that I can save.

02:42Whoever she's going to love, they're

02:45her ride or die forever.

02:47My ideal home for Aster would be a home

02:51that is patient, who can help her continue to blossom

02:55into the beautiful dog that she is.

02:58She really warms up in no time.

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