She Quit Her Job. He Got Night Goggles. They Searched 57 Days for Their Dog.
She Quit Her Job. He Got Night Goggles. They Searched 57 Days for Their Dog.
A couple combed a rural Montana community for their Border collie, Katie.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/us/lost-dog-montana-kalispell-spokane.html?fallback=0&recId=1RGc1kNgr1gHa1kWM6UGVplnvyw&locked=0&geoContinent=NA&geoRegion=CA&recAlloc=als1&geoCountry=US&blockId=home-featured&imp_id=726932469&action=click&module=editorContent&pgtype=Article®ion=CompanionColumn&contentCollection=Trending
After a late night at a stock-car race, Carole and Verne King returned to their dog-friendly hotel in Kalispell, Mont., and made a devastating discovery.
Their 7-year-old Border collie, Katie, was no longer in the room. She had apparently managed to unlatch the door, possibly spooked by a thunderstorm that had swept through the area. At the front desk, an attendant said she had seen an anxious dog bolt out the front door hours before.
The Kings were stunned. In the small city of 23,000 people that backs up to the sprawling wilderness near Glacier National Park, surrounded by forests and fields, where would they even start looking?
Over the next 57 days, the couple set out on a desperate search that included night-vision goggles, animal-tracking cameras and horse manure brought in from the family’s farm in Eastern Washington. Ms. King, a postal carrier, quit her job.
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Katie, immediately after she was found. She lost 15 pounds while she was missing.CreditCarole King
DAY 57
‘I Got Her’
On the morning of Sept. 15, Ms. King got another tip, this time from someone in a subdivision near the hotel. The resident said he was looking out the window and was confident that Katie was in his backyard.
Ms. King and a friend rushed over. But by the time they got there, whatever he had seen was gone. They walked through the fields nearby, searching with binoculars.
They encountered a couple out for a walk, told them about their search, and the woman pointed to a dog under a nearby tree.
It was a Border collie. They began calling Katie’s name. The dog was cautious, wary. Others in the group went silent as Ms. King called out to the dog. Katie came running at full speed and leapt into Ms. King’s arms.
“All I could think about was, ‘I’m done. I got her,’” Ms. King said. “I was crying, I was holding onto her, wrapped her up in a bear hug. I couldn’t get her in the car fast enough to close her in so I wouldn’t lose her again.”
Katie immediately fell asleep on the front seat of the car. She was dirty, dehydrated and had lost 15 pounds. They took her to an emergency vet, who shed tears upon learning that this was Katie, the dog so much of Kalispell had worked to find.
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I was so afraid they wouldn't 
but such a beautiful happy ending! 
Thanks 
My heart sank because I know these things don't usually go well, and the bears are soon heading into hyperphasia, and we have plenty of coyotes and wolves and lions in the area, and the highways can be so cruel to all the critters, large and small.
THIS IS SO GOOD TO HEAR! I love my valley.
We also have large swaths of beautiful blue blooms! 