01/20/2025
** Edited** DAKOTA UPDATE - 1-20-25
Ok, now that it's not the middle of the night.. (during which I was barely coherent as news was trickling in, LOL)
DAKOTA HAS BEEN CONTAINED, EXAMINED, AND RELEASED BACK TO HER FAMILY!!! She was taken to an emergency vet in the middle of the night, and according to her family, all the tests came back in decent shape! She is now resting comfortably with her family at home.
Thank you to everyone who has been involved in this!!! Thank you to our friends at Animal Welfare League Of Montgomery County Indiana and Hendricks County Animal Shelter for the use of your trap, and for braving this cold to get our girl! A team made of of MoCo's own Abbie Horn and Misha Shillings, Hendricks County's Jenn Hopkins, and I suspect a few more hardy individuals, defied these arctic temps to get this baby brought in last night! We are grateful for your knowledge and expericence to be able to help bring this to a close! We are so so so very thankful to our local spotters for calling in with her location. We knew when we had 3 calls in similar locations within 10 minutes of each other we had her!
Thank you so very much to our initial search coordinator Surb Surb for dropping everything EVERY SINGLE TIME I had a tip and going out to investigate each one!!! We would not be where we are today without your personal faithfulness, grit, and determination from the very beginning!!! Thank you also to our other boots-on-the-ground volunteers Elizabeth Herman, and Julie Hicks (and brother) for your time and willingness to help! These ladies drove all the county roads, talked to neighbors, searched abandoned buildings, and then some! So many thanks for everyone in this community who has read our posts, shared our posts, prayed for this girl, logged in hours on foot, driven the back roads, called in possible sightings, and kept your eyes sharp and looking out.
THIS SUCCESS BELONGS TO THE COMMUNITY!!! It was so amazing to see how far and wide Dakota's story has been shared, all of the local small towns coming together to help. You guys... you may not have been the ones in the end who were able to grab her, but YOU ARE ALL PART OF THIS!
And above all, thank you God for keeping this strong baby going and safe for all this time! Thank you for your faithfulness to our prayers!
We will never be able to thank all of you enough for helping to !!!