(UPDATE: June 3 @ 11:15 am) - Adorable new details have become public about the rescue of Daisy the dog on Tuesday.
A social media post from Central Okanagan Search and Rescue (COSAR) explains that members were out on a medical rescue on the Kettle Valley Railway near McCulloch Lake on Saturday.
While at the scene, COSAR member Forrest Kellerman learned from a police officer about Dearah Jordan's serious crash on Hwy 33 and that Daisy, the three-year-old Australian Shepherd, had gone missing.
While COSAR's mandate does not allow the group to search for missing pets, Kellerman owns two Aussie Shepherds himself and could not stop thinking about Daisy.
"On Sunday and Monday he returned to the area on his own time, using his training to methodically search logging roads and forested areas around the crash site," the COSAR post explained.
Forrest and his wife Tracey decided to go back out for one more search on Tuesday, then spotted something unexpected around 7 pm.
"Sitting patiently in the passenger seat of one of the vehicles from Saturday's accident was Daisy," the post said. "After three nights alone in the woods, she was safe."
Kellerman quickly found Jordan, who was searching with a group nearby, and informed her of the exciting news, and the pair were reunited at last.
(Original story: June 3 @ 10:30 am) - It’s the happiest possible ending for Daisy the dog and her owner Dearah Jordan.
Three days after going missing following a crash on Hwy 33, Daisy was found on Tuesday and reunited with Jordan.
Daisy was in Jordan’s vehicle on Saturday as they drove along Hwy 33 around 10 kilometres from the Big White turnoff.
Unfortunately, they were in a serious accident that caused Jordan’s SUV to flip “four or five times,” according to Jordan’s stepmother Annelise Freeman.
Jordan was transported to Kelowna General Hospital, but in good health given the circumstances.
The concern, however, was for Daisy, as the Australian Shepherd had taken off into the bush and was nowhere to be found in the remote area east of Kelowna.
Jordan and others searched desperately around the crash site on Sunday and Monday before Daisy was finally found on Tuesday.
“She did circle back to the crash site. She is heading home right now and asking for someone to throw a ball for her,” Freeman explained in a Facebook update.
“After such a traumatic and awful crash, the news could not be better. Dearah with bruises and some stiffness, and Daisy with no injuries.”
Freeman’s update was full of happy commenters who had become invested in the search, as well as some photo updates from Jordan of Daisy back at home.
“She won’t leave my side,” she captioned one of the photos, showing Daisy close by as Jordan sat on her couch.
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