B.C. family dog loses leg after spending days caught in leg-hold trap
Global News
"We live and are surrounded by Crown land with nothing, nothing out there but the wilderness so she protects us from bears and wolves and all the big predators."
A B.C. family is speaking out about their dog that had to have her leg amputated after getting stuck in a trap for days.
Pearl is a working livestock guardian dog on the Hartley’s Farm, located northwest of Fort St. John.
“We live and are surrounded by Crown land with nothing, nothing out there but the wilderness so she protects us from bears and wolves and all the big predators,” owner Ricki Hartley told Global News.
The three-and-a-half-year-old Anatolian Shepherd was out patrolling the property earlier this month and never made it home for dinner.
The family says they found her a few days later, stuck in a leg-hold trap near their property.
“We feed all of our dogs at 7 p.m. sharp,” Hartley said.
“Pearl had never not once been home for dinner. So we started to get worried. The sun had already gone down so we made a plan for Sunday to go out and search for her. Sunday morning my husband got the snowmobile and snow shoes and he went everywhere that he could.”
Hartley said her husband came home around 6 p.m. when the sun went down and still, Pearl was nowhere to be seen.
