ShivamDanger Zone
The path ahead was extremely dangerous for poor Miss Piggy. As there were unstable rocks beneath their feet, the embankment was laced with vines, and the brush made it easy to trip. Things became scarier when, Jessica’s attempt to boost the puppy up over a small ledge failed, as, her make-shift harness came undone.
Escape Plan
“The only way I could stop her was to get in front of her and head her off before she got to open ground. With her escape plan thwarted, she slumped down into the undergrowth and resumed her state as an immovable object,” Jessica wrote. Miss Piggy was now terrified and completely worn out.
Macgyver Apparatus
“It was becoming pretty obvious that she wouldn’t be able to make it up the bank unless we carried her, and so we were throwing around options for a harness and hammock set-up, using towels and ropes,” they said. Finally, Luke remembered that he had a large canvas bag in their car. If they could walk just 15 minutes back up the creek, maybe Miss Piggy would get inside and they could carry her down.
A Big Girl!
Fortunately, the bag was a perfect fit for the pooch. Yet when Luke and Graham lifted her, she was approximately 88 pounds. Together, they could carry her, but they were afraid to risk dropping her down the bank. They had to make their Macgyver apparatus completely foolproof with strong branches threaded through the bag’s handles.
Finally Free
It was a 30-minute climb through the bushes to deliver Miss Piggy to the bottom of the mountain and over to where they parked. A happy Jessica wrote,“When we opened the back of the car, we were greeted with a different dog – the little tail was going a mile a minute.”
Oh No!
In order to track down the dog’s owner, Jessica posted on a Facebook page for lost pets in the area they had just hiked. Much to her surprise, she received a message just 30 minutes later from a man who lived about 9 miles from where she was hiding. “He was absolutely sure this was his dog, who’d been lost since Jun 30 after wandering out of their yard,” Jessica wrote. But she was crushed when he referred to the dog as “Bob”, implying he had lost a male dog…