Call it a Christmas miracle, if you will. Coupled with an incredible story of survival.
It’s the story of Oakley, a diminutive dog with a big heart.
Oakley’s story began under the worst possible circumstances in the weeks leading up to Christmas when she was struck by a car on Highway 17 outside her home near Kings Road in Laurentian Hills, and then took off running scared
Oakley’s family, Joe Lussier, his wife and children, were beside themselves with worry and Joe recounts how he and a Good Samaritan spent the better part of three hours trying to track Oakley in the bush behind the family home.
That’s when Lussier got word that Oakley had been spotted crossing the highway, so the search resumed on the other side of that roadway in earnest, with the help of friends and neighbours, but to no avail.
“I drove around all night calling her name,” Lussier recalls.
All that took place Friday, December 12, and the search for Oakley continued over the weekend.
Reports came in that Oakley had been seen on Baggs Road and the search moved there, but she was nowhere to be seen.
Until Wednesday, December 17, when a nuclear security officer at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) alertly spotted Oakley down by the river at Chalk River Labs…
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