Your Stories: She Was Lost 5 Days In The Snow, But Maggie is OK

The dog had been lost in a snowstorm for five days.  A Yates County man feared the worst for the dog that’s been part of his life for 17 years. But for a turkey call and an 11-year-old who knew how to use it, the story could have ended differently.  If Maggie could only speak, she would have quite a story to tell.  The day after Christmas she disappeared in a snowstorm.  “We went out looking for her but it was white-out conditions so it was hard,” said Maggie’s owner Mason Brown. “I looked the next two days but I kind of lost hope.”  As the days stretched on, Dundee’s radio station WFLR made a plea to listeners.  “It was tough once I started to lose hope and I didn’t know where to look,” Brown said. “But I still felt like I had to be out there trying.”  “It’s pretty sad to think that a dog’s missing–because I like dogs,” said family friend Austin Gibson.  Austin is a sixth grader who did not know it at the time, but he alone would be the one to help. “I was sitting on a snow bank practicing my turkey call when I saw something brown and I called my dad,” he said.  Read the rest of the story from 13wham.com ….