Stray dog in Northport gets lucky with a strong network of dog lovers helping find his owners
Lucky of Belfast, found wandering in Northport Wednesday afternoon near a subdivision in the area of Swans Island Blankets, has been reunited with his owners, who have been searching for him. He’s 14 and doesn’t hear very well, but he wandered to a good home and person, who quickly activated a social media network to find his owners.
Lucky of Belfast, found wandering in Northport Wednesday afternoon near a subdivision in the area of Swans Island Blankets, has been reunited with his owners, who have been searching for him. He’s 14 and doesn’t hear very well, but he wandered to a good home and person, who quickly activated a social media network to find his owners.
NORTHPORT — Less than an hour after finding a black male dog, wandering without a collar up a driveway in Northport, Lucky has been reunited with his frantic owners.
“It turns out Lucky is his name, he’s 14-years-old, doesn’t hear very well and his owners have been searching for him ” said Terri Mahoney.
She said the owners are caretakers of a home in her neighborhood, and they live in Belfast. While checking on the home and clearing snow, Lucky wandered off and they couldn’t find him.
While raking snow off her roof this afternoon, Mahoney said she saw a “wild animal” walking up her driveway in the distance.
“I really wasn’t sure if it was a coyote or a wolf,” said Mahoney.
As the animal, which turned out to be a fixed male dog, later identified as Lucky, continued to walk up the driveway, she said he showed no aggression and came right up to her, as friendly as could be.
The solid black dog had no collar or other identifying marks. He’s a handsome dog, she said, with perky ears.
He was going to spend the night in Mahoney’s heated garage, and a bed had already begun to be created for him to snuggle up into, she said. And Lucky picked the right house and person to come to for help.
“He’s so cute,” said Mahoney, a confessed dog lover who thinks just about all dogs are cute and ‘loveys.’ “He’s getting lots of love and cookies right now.”
And that was a good thing, because it’s only 18 degrees Fahrenheit today and it is going to be 2 F overnight.
But soon after sending the photo in to PenBayPilot.com, Mahoney called and said she saw a car driving slowly through her neighborhood, and figured it might be someone looking for their dog. Sure enough, they were, and they were overwhelmed, she said, to see her hustle out to their car and tell she had their dog and he was safe. That’s when she learned his name, appropriately, was Lucky.
Dogs and cats can be taken to P.A.W.S. Animal Adoption Center in Rockport, which takes in stray animals from Northport among many other towns in Knox and Waldo counties. Visit their website for more information, as well as pets seeking adoption, fostering and forever homes.
Reach Editorial Director Holly S. Edwards at hollyedwards@penbaypilot.com
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