that poor lady, i cant even imagine what she is going through.

I can only imagine the terror and despair she must have felt being alone, standing on a kitchen counter in neck high water, and clinging to the last of a dream in a box of puppies. Such strength.

Many, many prayers for this lady and her dogs. I pray her two free dogs were able to find shelter or safety and can be reunited with her someday.

Amy and Sophia

My heart goes out to her for her strength of will and her devotion to her dogs. Wishing her a speedy recovery and I hope the dogs are found okay, as well as all those effected by the floods and mudslides.

Paula~

Wed, Dec 5 - 8:58am

Nancy has been located by the Red Cross in
a hospital with some minor injuries and
frost bite. She and her litter of puppies
were evacuated.

Nancy reports having left two hounds outdoors
that may have escaped to higher ground. If
anyone in that area hears of foxhounds in any
shelters, again, please let us know so that we
might re-unite Nancy with her dogs.

Her other dogs were in the kennel and are, at
this time, presumed drown/dead.

While this is NOT the answer I've been praying
for, Nancy is still with us and there is some
hope for at least some of her hounds.

Thank you again for any assistance,

Susan Stacy Lowder
Downhome Harriers


Wed, Dec 5 - 10:47am

Nancy was at home and heard the dike break.
Quickly, she searched for a box to put her
puppies in ... hoping to evacuate A.S.A.P.

She located a styrofoam container and
transfered the puppies into it. By the
time she had the pups in the box, the
water was waist-deep inside her house.

She moved towards her door, thinking of
her car and escape, but realized she
could not open her door in this kind of
water and, if she had, she may have just
been swept away. So, instead, she made
her way into her kitchen with her box of
puppies and climbed up on to her kitchen
counter.

She stayed there all night and most of
yesterday ... standing on the counter
and holding on to the box of puppies.
At times, she says the water was only
three inches below her mouth. The puppies
would occasionally peer over the box but
decided they did not want out of it and,
thankfully, stayed put.

Nancy's neighbor was air-lifted from the
roof or their home and insisted to the
rescuers that they knew Nancy was at home.
So, they came and punched through her roof
to find her. She has minor injuries from
floating objects and has frost bite on her
extremities. Nancy is in her 70s. She
said she willed herself to live to keep
her puppies from drowning.

As she was being airlifted, she could see
two of her foxhounds outside ... alive.
The others were inside in kennel runs, two
foxhounds and the Black Russian Terrier
were in crates. She fully expects those
dogs to be dead.

Nancy was taken and admitted to a hospital.
One of her nurses has taken the puppies home
to she and her husband's dairy farm to care
for them. They have lost over 300 head of
their cows to the same flood.

Nancy has lost EVERYTHING except the clothes
on her back and these puppies ... and maybe
the two foxhounds she saw outdoors. A donation
drive for Nancy is being established through
the American Foxhound Club.

For information:

Please contact Kelly & Judy Rea
706-754-4257

Also, if you live in this area and hear any
word about these surviving foxhounds, Please
let either the Reas or myself know. These hounds
mean EVERYTHING to Nancy!

Thank you for your assistance!

Susan Stacy Lowder
Downhome Harriers

What perseverance! Prayers for her on a speedy recovery, and to find the 2 dogs......what a tragedy.

http://www.ThunderBullies.com

do in that situation. I rely on my cell phone so much and have always been a phone call away if I needed help. God was certainly looking out for her and hope she recovers from her wounds and has the strength to get through what the future holds.

So very sad. You have to wonder about the ones who weren't rescued.