A dog rescued in Texas and bound for a home in Elkhorn, Wis. that disappeared after it slipped out of its harness near Midway Airport last week was found Tuesday night and is on its way to Wisconsin.
Madison, a Doberman rescued earlier this month, somehow got free of her harness near Midway Airport Friday afternoon, and had not been seen since Saturday night, said Lauren Kelliher, vice president of Illinois Doberman Rescue Plus, which helped coordinate the dog's travel to Wisconsin.
"We are just so happy," said Kelliher.
Larissa Gavin, who found Madison and arranged a flight in a private jet to Midway, said that the woman who found Madison Tuesday night went to a grocery store this morning and saw a flier about the missing dog, then called Illinois Doberman Rescue Plus to say she had Madison.
Gavin had been "hoping for a miracle" since the dog she rescued early this month disappeared.
Gavin had been driving around a neighborhood in Houston on Jan. 5 with the founder of a rescue group, stopping to offer food to dogs and talking to people about bringing their dogs in during the cold weather, when they happened upon three unleashed puppies, Gavin said in an email last week.
The two found the puppies' mother, Madison, nearby, and three days later were able to take custody of the dogs and take them to to a veterinarian for examination. One of the puppies had a broken femur, and Madison showed signs of having been injured, Gavin said.
After they sent out word about the dogs, a home was found for Madison in Wisconsin, while her puppies were placed with a puppy rescue shelter in Houston, Gavin said.
Madison arrived at Midway Friday and was picked up by a Chicago paramedic who volunteers for a Doberman rescue group and was going to drive the dog to Wisconsin, Gavin said. Madison somehow slipped out of her harness near 53rd Street and Central Avenue, Gavin said.
Volunteers then combed the area, with the last sighting of Madison Saturday night near 38th Street and Spaulding Avenue, as "a bunch of volunteers descended on the area," Kelliher said.
But "we hadn't heard anything since," Kelliher said.
Then, about 10:30 a.m. today, the woman who found Madison called the number listed on fliers for Illinois Doberman Rescue Plus and left a message in Spanish, apparently about Madison.
Kelliher and other volunteers started scrambling to find someone to translate the message, but the woman soon called back. She told them, in English, that she had found Madison in her neighborhood, near 38th and Spaulding, cold and hungry, and coaxed the dog into her garage.
This morning, Madison was inside the woman's house, wrapped in blankets, as one volunteer went to pick her up and the woman who originally planned to take her to Wisconsin prepared to begin their delayed journey to Wisconsin. Gavin had been able to confirm that the found dog is Madison by looking at a photographer the woman who found the dog sent her which shows a distinctive scar Madison has, Gavin said.
Gavin plans to send the woman a $1,000 reward that had been offered for finding Madison, she said.
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