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  An Easter Miracle
Laramie Daily Boomerang April 2006

 

Easter Sunday couldn't have been much more emotional for Vicki Doll of Centennial. At about one p.m., her Bichon Frise, Elway, got away from her. By 3 p.m., he hadn't returned. And by 6 p.m., the whole neighborhood was searching for Elway.  "We thought we could hear him off the river, but we couldn't get to him," Doll said. "I had pretty much (resigned myself) that we weren't going to find him." That is when someone suggested calling Cathy Orde and her pet search and rescue dog Zoe.

"We grabbed Zoe and we went (to Vicki's)," Orde said. "People were waiting for us. They had Elway's blanket, so I gave Zoe the scent of the blanket and she started tracking." Zoe went down through a creek bed and through the woods, through a sage brush area and through another creek. She went up to the creek and circled around a spot where Elway had stopped to get a drink of water. Zoe then found Elway on the North Fork of the Little Laramie River caught in the rocks. His leash was caught, and Orde said he was nearly strangled.

"If we wouldn't have found him, he wouldn't have made it through the night," Orde said. After the ordeal, Doll felt like she had experienced her own holiday miracle. "It was truly a miracle. He would not have lived the night," Doll said. "My dogs are a big part of my life. I had lost him, and I'll always remember Zoe and Cathy (for finding him). It was quite a miracle. He is a sweetheart."