Marcus Golladay of U.P. Hauling and Disposal happened to be at the right place at the right time at 1 a.m. on Monday morning, when he spotted something unusual laying in a ditch along Greenough Street in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
“I just happened to drive by and catch it out of the corner of my eye,” Golladay said. “I backed up and there was a dog, frozen in the snowbank. It was not moving at all.”
Golladay carefully lifted the dog out of the snow filled ditch, wrapped it in a blanket and laid it across the floorboard of his warm truck.
“It didn't move for probably the first half an hour to 45 minutes,” he said. “It was really malnourished.”
Golladay couldn’t be sure but assumed that the dog had been struck by another vehicle.
“I'm pretty sure it was hit by a car,” said Golladay. “You could tell by looking at it. I'm pretty sure its back leg was broken. He was scraped up and bleeding.”
Golladay spent his early morning hours looking for someone to take the cold, injured canine but no one was immediately available to help. He called various veterinarian clinics, shelters and even the police department. Finally, he got a response.
It just so happened that Dr. Valerie A. Chadwick of Kinross Veterinary Clinic was on-call overnight. Golladay drove the roughly 20 minutes to Kincheloe to meet Chadwick at her office around 3 a.m.
Following veterinary examination, the dog was transported to the Chippewa County Animal Control Shelter.
“I have a puppy too, so it just broke my heart to look at this dog,” Golladay said.
The Chippewa County Animal Shelter is located at 3660 South Mackinac Trail in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.