Dog rescued after being trapped in shipping container for 8 days
Newsy
One Texas pup's roller coaster of luck went from the dark depths of a shipping container to the bright prospect of a fur-ever home last week.
One adorable pup is trading her lonely living quarters for a loving furever home, with adoption applications still pouring in since being found in an unlikely habitat last week.
That unlikely habitat was a shipping container about 25 feet off the ground at a Texas port, where a group of marine inspectors with U.S. Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston had been busy at work when they came across the surprising inhabitant.
Four crew members had been doing their routine job of randomly inspecting some of the port's thousands of shipping containers when they heard barking and scratching above them, UCSG Heartland said. They lowered the suspected container by crane and opened the door, and Connie the Container Dog popped right out.
The sweet pup had been trapped in the dark enclosure for at least eight days, with USCG officer Ryan McMahon telling The Associated Press she was "definitely pretty skinny."
