Family That Spots Dog Laying On The Roadside Pieces Together His Real Mission

family of its spots dog laying on the roadside pieces together as real mission but before we start please take a moment to give this video a like subscribe to happy world and hit the bell so you'll never miss these great stories helping a lost dog find her way back home can be as simple as reading her tags then of course it's just a matter of earning the dog's trust and coaxing her into your car sadly not all lost animals can be returned so smoothly when a Kentucky woman saw a dog in a bad spot she and her family did what they'd done so many times with stray animals before offered help but what should have been a simple pickup and return mission turned into a heartbreaking predicament that forced her to make some tough decisions Melissa brings staff and her family have a motto we can't save the world but we can do something about the one in front of us and when it comes to animals that's truly the model they live by the philosophy regularly encouraged the family to help animals they often scooped up lost animals wandering around Harlan Kentucky fed them and found them homes such was the case with a certain Great Pyrenees early on a Saturday morning the ring staff family cruise down the highway a two-hour drive ahead but in the opposite lane they noticed a great honking dog lying still in the road cars swerved to avoid him the ring staffs were concerned that the dog had been hit by a car Melissa's husband Michael a pastor flipped on the car's hazard lights and pulled the truck over they got out of the vehicle to inspect the canine but as soon as Melissa and her gang stepped into the road the dog stood up and walked over to them curiously showing no sign of injury it was then Melissa saw the heartbreaking reason the dog was staying so still off in the ditch lining the highway another dog had been hit by a car tragically he didn't live to tell the tale by the looks of it the dog in the road had been guarding his fallen friend the sight broke my heart Melissa wrote the ring staffs tried to lure the dog into their truck but he refused to leave his friend behind heartbroken the family left the stubborn pooch for the moment they were after all on a day trip but 10 hours later they returned the dog hadn't left though he'd moved out of the road so committed to saving the world in front of them the ring staffs hoisted the massive dog into their truck like so many other lost dogs they'd find his home too but as the ring staffs drove with the dog in their truck searching for the collarless dog's home local after local told the same story one as tragic as the lost dog situation those dogs the locals explained belonged to someone who moved away they'd left the dogs behind to fend for themselves leading to one's demise the abandoned and lonely Great Pyrenees had no home to return to worse the dogs had apparently been living on the side of the highway for a couple days so hearts broken once more the animal loving Melissa and her family knew what they had to do make this dog's world a better place the ring staffs brought the dog home fed him bathed them and gave them a haircut when night fell she led him to a brand new kennel but the dog didn't sleep instead he broke from the kennel in the dead of the night and disappeared from the ring staff home the second Melissa spotted the kennel with a now broken door the family went out searching for him it should have been easy it's not like the dog was in disguise all day the rings to have searched asking everyone they passed if they'd seen an enormous dog teetering along they drove to the Humane Society and police stations they couldn't find the Great Pyrenees anywhere in fact the ring staff spent three days looking for the dog putting over 100 miles on their car driving around the small Kentucky town finally they spotted the pooch just a few miles from the ring staff home the pooch was on a stranger's porch happy to see Melissa and her kids the next day Melissa bought him dog tags with his new name at first inspired by the 2019 film Hachi a dog's tail they called him Hachi like the dog in the film melissa wrote we'd found him loyally staying with his buddy who died but they ultimately chose a happier name in the end Melissa wrote we called him Tucker no symbol the name somehow perfectly fit the dog's personality he's incredibly sweet very gentle and we've yet to hear him bark he's Tucker and he ring staff as the ring staffs proved sometimes just driving down the road can lead to some interesting encounters and if you asked this Pennsylvania couple it's out in the middle of nowhere that you find some of the most unexpected things