RCMP officers rescue dog from wildfire near Cranbook

On July 17, a wildfire started by downed power lines spread rapidly toward a First Nations community. The community was evacuated and a three-legged dog was left behind.
The dog, named three-leg, was rescued by Cranbrook RCMP officers and they learned through a Facebook post that Three-Leg’s owner was asking for help to locate the dog.

With the owner’s permission, Corporal Alistair Peers, Corporal Monte Webb, and Corporal Eldene Stanley of the RCMP’s Indigenous Policing Services searched the owner’s home and found Three-Leg cowering under the stairs in the basement, wrote  Meagan Massad in the RCMP Gazette magazine.

“She was visibly shaking when we found her. Apparently, she gravitated towards females, so I crouched down and tried to speak with her softly,” said Stanley. “Corporal Webb then lifted her up and placed her in the back of the police cruiser. As soon as she was in the back of the car, her tail started wagging and she perked right up.”

The three officers took Three-Leg to a veterinary clinic, where other rescued pets were being cared for. While there, Three-Leg was reunited with her mother, Bubba. Bubba had been safely evacuated days earlier in the back of a police cruiser. But at the time, Three-Leg couldn’t be found.

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