Dearah’s husband Sharron with Daisy – Submitted by Dearah Jordan
After a serious crash on a rural, British Columbia highway, a woman and her husband had to search for days to find their missing dog Daisy.
Along the way, they experienced just about every kind of help imaginable until 96 hours after their crash, they were reunited with their Australian shepherd.
Dearah Jordan and her husband Sharron were struck in Kelowna, BC, by a pickup truck that ran the pair of them off the road. Their car rolled over and Jordan suffered a series of small injuries.
When the crashing and rolling stopped, all Jordan could think about was Daisy, her dog, who wasn’t there.
Ignorant of her injuries she began to search, until at the insistence of first responders, she was taken to the nearest hospital. It was soon obvious that nothing serious was hiding under her scrapes and bruising, and the doctor eagerly discharged Jordan to go look for her dog.
Meanwhile, while responding to another call, a local member of the all-volunteer Central Okanagan Search and Rescue asked the Royal Canadian Mounted Police about the sirens he had heard earlier, and was told that two cars had rolled over on the highway near Kelowna.
Rescue member Forrest Kellerman got home and looked up more information on Jordan and Daisy’s crash, and saw a notice that an Australian shepherd was missing. Whether it was the passion for finding people that saw him join the search and rescue volunteers, or whether it was his own Australian shepherds staring him in the eye that afternoon, but Kellerman and his wife Tracey decided they were going to go find Daisy and bring her home safely.
The next day they spent hours searching the area around the crash site. The day after that, they met Dearah and Sharron, who had hardly slept since the crash. By then, the whole community had got wind of their ordeal and came out to help, either physically searching, providing a thermal imaging drone, or even just bringing out a hot meal.
“People were bringing us food, satellite links, everything imaginable, like volunteers were coming out of the woodworks, just complete strangers. It was so emotional,” Jordan told CBC News.
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On the 4th day, Tracey still felt compelled to go look for Daisy, and so the Kellermans went to the crash site where Tracey decided to do what could have been described as the obvious: in the immediate vicinity of the collision. The man who hit Jordan with his truck was still hospitalized with serious injuries, and his truck was still lying in the brush.
Credit: Forrest Kellerman for Central Okanagan Search and Rescue
Approaching, Tracey suddenly saw movement, a small face with big eyes: it was Daisy. She was sitting on the passenger seat.
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She didn’t make any sudden movements but began sweetly talking to the dog while calmly alerting Forrest on the road to go and get Jordan.
The dog mom couldn’t hold back her emotions upon seeing Daisy who whimpered intensely at seeing Jordan. Like Jordan herself, Daisy was no worse for wear after the crash, and the two went home delighting in their good fortune and in the kindness of strangers that brought it about.
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