Pulling up to your favorite fast food restaurant, you expect a giant display of enticing food pictures. It feels impossible to select from all the options, but what if you had more than food staring back at you?
That happened last month in California’s Los Angeles County when a hungry customer entered their favorite restaurant’s drive-thru line and saw a matted clump of fur resting beneath the display screen.
They immediately called Logan’s Legacy 29, a local dog rescue founded by Suzette Hall, for help. When Hall and her volunteers arrived, they quickly discovered a small abandoned dog sleeping around the restaurant.
“He would lay under the restaurant sign, he would lay under the drive[-thru],” Hall wrote on Facebook. “He had his favorite bush and his favorite palm tree, and he would lay there.”
The team talked to a security guard about the pup and learned the heartbreaking truth about his past.
“For three months, he lived in a shopping center right by two busy streets, lonely and afraid,” Hall wrote. “Security would feed him.”
Hall and her team set up dog traps in the areas he frequented most and hoped the delicious treats inside would lure him. Unfortunately, due to the activity around the restaurant, their plan proved harder to execute than expected.
“This was such a hard rescue, people kept showing up and chasing him,” Hall wrote. “He wouldn’t go near my traps. We would move traps to one of his favorite spots, and he would go to his other favorite spot.”
After hours of trying to catch the dog, the team disbanded for the night and decided to return first thing in the morning.
“We were determined and exhausted, but so was he,” Hall wrote. “He deserved to be safe …”
The next morning, while the pup was in a deep sleep, two volunteers improvised a new plan to catch him off guard.
“Yamileth and Karla snuck up quietly [and used] a blanket as a net,” Hall wrote. “They got him.”
The crew drove the pup, later named Coconut, directly to Camino Pet Hospital, where he received a complete medical examination and a much-needed makeover.
After getting a clean bill of health and having most of his matted fur shaved off, Coconut settled in for his first sleep in a real bed in months.
It’s been a little over a week since Coconut’s rescue, and the sweet boy looks like a completely different dog now. He’s still searching for a forever home, but he’s currently enjoying life as a foster dog.
On a recent trip to the beach with Hall, Coconut’s gratitude for his new life was palpable.
“He loved the smell and watching the water,” Hall wrote in a Facebook update. “His smile afterward showed me how happy he was to go to the beach, to see new things and [to] feel loved.”
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Source: CNN
