Connie the dog was found trapped inside a shipping container (Petty officer 1st class Lucas Loe/US Coast Guard via AP)Coast Guard officials would later determine that the canine – since nicknamed Connie the container dog – had been trapped inside for at least eight days, with no food or water. She was a little dirty and “definitely pretty skinny,” Mr McMahon said. Mr McMahon and the three other inspectors drove Connie to an animal shelter in the Houston suburb of Pasadena, where she was checked out. And that’s how she accidentally got put in the container,” said Coast Guard spokeswoman chief petty officer Corinne Zilnicki. I don’t think she would have made it,” Mr McMahon said.

Source: The Times February 03, 2024 14:00 UTC