TAMPA, FL.– A dog discovered strolling on an interstate site visitors and was stopped by way of soldiers was reunited with its proprietor Saturday. The second changed into one Evelyn Zayas wasn’t positive she’d get. “I just did not think I was gonna see him again,” she said. Zayas said she is a homeless veteran and that her canine, Prince, is an emotional support animal. “We are survivors,” she stated.
But Friday, she said he got spooked with the aid of noise from the device and ran out of an open gate at the belongings in which they were staying. Later Friday, troopers stated they answered a dog running inside and outside of sight of visitors on I-4. They rescued him from the westbound I-4 ramp to the northbound I-275. “So a person probably picked him up may be desired to maintain him perhaps changed into trying to find the right area to take him however lamentably chosen to let him loose at the highway, and it does happen pretty frequently,” Kimberly Valdiviezo, the lead technician for the refuge department on the Humane Society of Tampa Bay said.
The employer began treating the dog, and first of all, called him Lightning for his pace zipping around the road. “Surprisingly, not in an excessive amount of horrific shape. They changed into a pair of scratches and a few bruises, clearly very shaken up; however, he was very warm, letting us take hold of him to protect him. he became very candid to us with all the annoyances that he went via,” Valdiviezo said. She said they positioned the records on social media. Zayas was put in touch on Saturday. “She provided evidence with snapshots that it changed into him after which we brought him out, and he came out of his shell like he desired to leap into her fingers, cross right away to her, so we depended on that this was her puppy,” Valvidiezo.
