CHP Officers Rescue Tiny Dog From I-680 - NBC Bay Area

CHP Officers Rescue Tiny Dog From I-680 - NBC Bay Area

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The California Highway Patrol is being lauded for its efforts in rescuing a Chihuahua off the I-680 freeway in Walnut Creek Friday.


The Contra Costa CHP posted a photo of the rescue on Twitter saying:


"This little dog needed some help off I-680 freeway today. We're glad he's safe."


Many Twitter users thanked the CHP for saving the small dog. Others wondered where it had shown up from. The picture has since gone viral.


On Saturday, the CHP said in a tweet that the Contra Costa Animal Control in Martinez, California, had taken the dog into their care.


The rescue picture showed the Chihuahua perched on a roadway median on Interstate

Highway 680 during rush hour.


CHP officer Alex Edmon said that officers got a call Friday about a Chihuahua running in lanes northbound I-680 just south of North Main Street. Officers received another call that reported that the dog was sitting in the middle of the center-divide wall. Edmon and his partner reponded and spotted the small dog on the highway's concrete center divider.


"We attempted to coax it, we could tell it was very frightened, it was shaking - we were able to pet it a little bit, but other than that we could tell it was not happy."


Edmon, who is a dog lover and owns two dogs himself, said he tried to offer the dog some trail mix to coax it., but she wouldn't eat it. The officers called animal control since they had no way to transport the dog on their motorcycles, Edmon said.


Animal control estimates the dog to be around two years old. There were no signs of tags or any kind of injury when she was rescued.


"I would try to encourage everybody to try and rescue any dog they can," he said. "Animal control has already been innundated with calls for this particular dog because of the story, but don't be discouraged if you can't get this exact dog, look for other dogs out there."


Edmon said that he didn't know how the dog ended up on the freeway.


"As of right now there are no witnesses that actually saw someone take the dog out of a car and leave it there," he said.


Edmon said that the CHP gets calls about dogs loose on the freeway on a weekly basis.


"It's not uncommon at all," he said.





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