“[She was] left behind in the hot sun …”
As the sweltering autumn sun warmed the streets of Los Angeles, California, last week, dog rescuer Suzette Hall received a concerning message from a Good Samaritan. The message described a lone pup stuck outside an abandoned warehouse — and she had no shelter from the rising heat.
“[She was] tied in a business area and left behind in the hot sun …” Hall, who founded Logan’s Legacy 29, wrote on Facebook. “I was transporting when I got the message, and [she] was an hour away from me …”
Hall agreed to rescue the pup as soon as she finished transporting the one already in her vehicle, but she feared she wouldn’t get there fast enough. Looking at the picture of the shaggy dog blanketed in matted fur, left tethered to a staircase, Hall knew time was running out to save her.
So she called a handful of friends in the area and breathed a sigh of relief when one of them volunteered to help.
“Thank God for Mary Nakiso, my amazing friend,” Hall wrote. “She had just [gotten] off [from] work and raced over there.”
Nakiso soon arrived at the industrial area to find a row of businesses and warehouses. Since she didn’t know the dog’s exact location, she began combing the buildings for signs of the sweet girl, but she had no such luck. Then, she spotted the staircase in the pictures.
“She saw the stairs but didn’t see [the pup],” Hall wrote. “I was on the phone with her, and all of [the] sudden, she screamed, ‘I found her!’”
The abandoned pup wasn’t on the staircase, where she was initially pictured when Hall learned about her. Instead, Nakiso found her tied to a nearby fence.
“Someone had moved her to a fence and tied her there,” Hall wrote. “[With] no water all day, she was shaking.”
The poor girl, later named Brinley, was understandably distressed from the heat and the heartbreak she’d experienced. Brinley couldn’t answer any of Nakiso’s questions about how she ended up there, but she swiftly showed her rescuer just how happy she was to be found.
“[S]he knew [Nakiso] was there to help her,” Hall wrote. “I’m sure all day, she was hoping someone was coming.”
Thankfully, Nakiso found Brinley just in time to escape the brutal sun. Hall arrived shortly after and shuttled Brinley to Camino Pet Hospital, where the sweet girl received a full checkup and much-needed makeover.
It’s been over a week since Brinley’s rescue, and she’s finally starting to feel like herself again. She’s since gone to a loving foster home, where she splits her time equally between napping in her cozy new bed and basking in her caregiver’s praises.
“She is still a little shut-down, but with an amazing foster [who’s] making her feel like a princess, she finally knows what love feels like,” Hall told The Dodo.
