A dog named Sweetie spent the night alone, injured, and hidden in a freezing retention pond. A drone found her in minutes. This is exactly why DFR programs exist, as Oregon Live reports.
Sweetie’s Long Night in Happy Valley
The call came in around noon on Friday.
A dog had slipped through a fence near a retention pond in Happy Valley, Oregon, and vanished into a wall of blackberry bushes, cattails, and thick mud. Clackamas County sheriff’s deputies searched for hours, until 8:30 p.m. and found nothing. The vegetation was just too dense. The dog was invisible.
They came back Saturday morning with a different tool…