A firefighter was driving home from work when he saw a dog in the middle of the road. While many drivers honked their horns and continued past the dog, the firefighter, Justin Luttrell, stopped.
"She was freezing, shaking and terrified -- it was written all over her face with her tail tucked between her legs," Lutrell said in a Facebook post Wednesday. "Before I left work I checked the weather. It was -1 with wind chill. I pulled over to try and pick her up."
Lutrell said the dog was nearly hit by cars. He used cooked chicken and lunch meat to get her close and he finally caught up to the dog a fourth of a mile down the road.
"She had icicles hanging off of her with multiple sores on her body and looked anorexic," Lutrell said in the post. "Not knowing if she'd bite me or if she had rabies, etc., I picked her up and put her in the back seat of my truck."
Lutrell said he drove to an Animal Emergency Center in Memphis, where he was told the dog was heartworm negative, didn’t appear spayed and did not have a microchip.
Lutrell made the public post in hopes of getting the dog adopted.
“She is extremely sweet and will be needing a home,” he wrote. “Please share this to find this sweetheart a good loving home and keep her off the streets.”
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