{"id":125374,"date":"2025-08-07T04:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T04:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125374\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T04:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T04:10:14","slug":"dog-chained-to-tree-in-b-c-wildfire-zone-was-only-found-by-her-cries-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125374\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog chained to tree in B.C. wildfire zone was only found by her cries for help"},"content":{"rendered":"

Janet O\u2019Reilly has been keeping a close eye on the Wesley Ridge wildfire burning on Vancouver Island, as her house is just outside the current evacuation alert zone.<\/p>\n

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However, that has not stopped her from going for daily walks with her dogs.<\/p>\n

But on Sunday morning, with the noise of the fire nearby, the planes and the bucketing, O\u2019Reilly heard a new sound.<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard a dog crying,\u201d she told Global News.<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard a dog barking in the woods.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Reilly continued on with her walk and then on the way back, she heard the crying again.<\/p>\n

She wasn\u2019t able to go investigate but she went home, went to work, went for another dog walk with a friend in a different area and that\u2019s when a neighbour came to her house saying she had also heard barking and crying and had stumbled across a dog tied to a tree.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs soon as he told me that and it was by itself, then we kind of started calling everywhere,\u201d O\u2019Reilly said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started calling every SPCA and emergency hotline numbers from the SPCA, conservation officers, RCMP and nobody could help. So it was a matter of just packing up stuff and seeing if the dog was friendly enough that it would let us get her.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Reilly said that it being the long weekend and a Sunday evening, few people were available or working.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went up there with water and food and my friend stayed down at the service road with his dogs, just so we wouldn\u2019t intimidate her,\u201d O\u2019Reilly said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd we don\u2019t know how she is with other dogs and (we) put the water down and she just started drinking and drinking and drinking. She let me come closer to her when she was drinking. She didn\u2019t seem intimidated by me at all. She didn\u2019t seem like she was growling, nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Reilly said she was trying to offer treats but the dog just wanted to drink water.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was looking at the chain, thinking how the heck am I going to get this chain off of her and fortunately it was just done up by a carabiner,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

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O\u2019Reilly said the dog let her take the chain off and put on a leash.<\/p>\n

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