Nashville truck driver rescues puppy on highway, reunites her with Ohio family

CINCINNATI (WXIX) – A Tennessee truck driver is credited with stopping to avoid wasting a pet stranded on the interstate after which returning her to her household in Ohio.

Jada is a 10-month-old German shepherd who lives in West Chester. Her proprietor, Cory Hickman, describes her as energetic, nicely mannered and personable.

However on Monday, Jada’s curiosity acquired the higher of her. She was exterior within the household’s yard when a deer made its means contained in the fence.

“The deer jumped the fence,” Cory defined, “and he or she jumped the fence too. And by the point we went across the nook to see the place she went, she was already gone.”

Jada discovered her strategy to probably the most harmful locations a younger pup will be. It was on Interstate 75 close to the Tylersville exit that Bynum Morelock, a truck driver from Nashville, noticed her.

“I most likely noticed about 50 automobiles nearly hit her,” Morelock mentioned.

He pulled his semi truck over on the spot. With the assistance of one other Good Samaritan, Morelock corralled Jada, saving her from critical damage, loss of life or theft.

“I believe every little thing about it was emotional,” he mentioned Wednesday, “from watching an harmless canine nearly die… That was very nerve-wracking.”

In the meantime, Jada’s household was up in arms. They appeared for her tirelessly, posting on social media and even hand-delivering “misplaced canine” fliers. However Jada was nowhere to be discovered.

In truth, she was in Tennessee. Morelock couldn’t afford to cease on his route. The precedence was saving the pet—he’d finished that. What got here subsequent, he must resolve after he noticed by his job.

And so, Jada went with Morelock throughout two state borders to Nashville. As soon as there, he took her to a veterinarian as quickly as he might. Fortunately, Jada had a microchip, and it recognized her homeowners.

“It was form of a—’Let’s hit the highway now!’” Morelock recalled.

Tuesday night time, greater than 24 hours after Jada jumped the fence, Morelock reunited her along with her household in West Chester.

“I knew she was going again to a superb residence,” he mentioned. “That’s what put me comfy probably the most, was that she had anyone that was loving her. It doesn’t matter what, they have been going to come back get her, whether or not they have been three thousand miles away from her or 5 miles down the highway.”

Hickman says reuniting with Jada has made for the perfect Thanksgiving they might ask for.

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