Blind senior dog discovered safe weeks after disappearing from home

When a dog vanishes from your home, it’s an ordeal. When your pet is left alone in the world, you bother about its safety—this fear is even greater if the animal has a disability.

But it’s important to never lose hope.

The Kubacki family of Sitka, Alaska, was depressed after their golden retriever Lulu went missing June 18.

«She means everything,» her owner tells. «I have 5 daughters, ages 4 to 13, and they’ve spent every single day of their lives with this dog.»

Things got even scarier, Lulu was a blind elderly dog, and the family began to fear for her safety. «She’s just so helpless, and you imagined she couldn’t get far because she couldn’t see.»

The family looked everywhere, but could not find Lulu. As the weeks passed, they became frustrated — especially after a joker gave them false hope by claiming they had found a dog — and began to lose hope.

But then they were shoked. The construction crew found the dog in an embankment, at first thinking it was a bear. But when the construction team looked closely, they realized it was a Golden Retriever.

Lulu was finally found. Construction workers pulled her from the embankment and helped her back to her family.

«I called my wife from work, and it was just screaming … She started screaming, then she screamed to the kids. And I could just hear them screaming like crazy,» Tand told the Sentinel newspaper.

According to him, the dog «went through the ordeal» and was in bad shape at the time they met. But she has since been on the mend and recently found the strength to raise her head and kiss her owner.