Dog found abandoned in middle of road eating a possum saved by driver, and after fruitless search for pawrents is given forever home with canine siblings, dog dad says: ‘I came back home with something worth a whole lot more to me than a paycheck!’

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Mar 16, 2026 2:00 PM EDT

Each canine rescue has a different flavor to it. Some come with a strong stench of trash, while this one comes with a delightful aroma of smush possum, meaning that this story ends with a bath using extra fragrant doggo conditioner.

It is becoming more and more apparent that alongside the usual hazards that you should be aware of while driving around such as cars and hoomans. Drivers should also be very wary of stray dogs lining the sides of the roads, and as in this case helping themselves to a road derived treat in the middle of the road.

For you never know when you might turn around a switchback and find yourself face to face with the pupper you are about to bring home and let live with you forever. Which is exactly what happened to the doggo hero in this story who dropped everything while on his way to work to tend to the sweet pupper who had so timidly run to hide under our hero's car after stopping to see if the dog was ok. And while this man might not have immediately realized that this doggo was destined to be his, he finally manage to figure it out before it was too late. 
 

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    ala "I don't know how long she was out in the wilderness but she will never have to do it again"
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    I was told this subreddit would enjoy this story! On the way to work one morning a year ago from yesterday I came back home with something worth a whole lot more to me than a paycheck! First three
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    pictures are recent pictures and last three are from the day I found her. Amazing how much her whole demeanor has changed, and you can even tell just by the pictures! I
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    came around the first turn of the morning and she I was in the middle of the road with another super skinny brown dog. The brown dog was eating on a possum that was d d in the
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    middle of the road on the yellow line. When I approached the brown dog ran off into the woods and watched me from there while she watched me from a distance standing in
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    the road. I didn't want them to get hit because they were in a very bad spot in a blind corner where people like to speed, so I got out of the car and threw the possum in the
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    woods off the road so that if they kept eating it, atleast they wouldn't be in the middle of the road. Considered my good deed done and hopped in the car to continue on my way to work. Well, she
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  • Well, you know, what are you going to do? Sometimes life just does not afford you the opportunity to do more than toss a piece of road animal into the woods to make sure the two abandoned dogs you’ve come upon do not find themselves with a similar fate. There is no discrediting this good deed. Even if it is entirely timid as we know what is about to happen to this dog lover who thought he was in for a quick helping hand. It is so funny to see how unaware some of these rescuers are at the beginning of their stories, you just want to scream out to them and tell them what is about to come their way. 

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    had different plans and decided to follow me right beside my car a good 100 yards down the road. I decided it might be a good idea to take some pictures of them to post online
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    incase they got away from someone, so I threw it in park in the middle of the road and snapped a quick picture of her. I was about to go up the road to get a picture of the brown dog too. The original
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    picture I took that day is the 4th picture I posted. As soon as I took the picture she got under my car and laid down and I couldn't get her to move. Another man stopped and said he
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    saw her the day before and told me she wouldn't even get close at all to him. He said he figured that someone dumped them. They were just right down the road from my house, so I
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  • Oh she would not move you say? It is almost as though she knew that you were photographing her in order to post her online as missing, but all she wanted dear oblivious hooman was to come home with you to your nearby residence. Surely you might have figured that out even just a little by the fact that she chose your car to hide under. Yeah, the car with your smell attached to it. If only these people could see themselves in real time. This man could have just given in, told her to come with him to their furever home and lived happily ever after. But then again, it would mean we did not have such a sweet story to tell.
     

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    figured I might as well just run her back to the house. I had to crawl under my car to drag her out from under it, and in a split second decision tossed her in the car. I figured it would probably be
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    better if I could keep an eye on her until I found her owner. The brown dog wouldn't let me get close to him, but he eventually got caught by another person passing by. I saw him posted in all the missing pet
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    groups as well. Don't have an update for him past that. The person who posted his pictures ended up deleting the posts so I assume that they gave or found him a home aswell! We have
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    small dogs and a very low, probably 4 foot tall, fence around our yard. I didn't have time to make any modifications to the fence so I left her with a bowl of water and a bowl of food
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    and assumed when I came back home on lunch she probably would have hopped the fence and went on her way. Instead, when I came back, she was just chilling out laying in the shade. As I walked up to the fence she
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    hopped up and her little nub was just wagging like crazy. Well, over the course of the next week I had her posted on my own personal Facebook, all the local missing pet groups, and also called the animal
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    shelter. I gave them my number and told them if anyone called looking for a black and white Australian shepherd/border collie, or some kind of mix of the two, to call me because
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    there was a good chance I had it. Even took her to the vet the very next day to check her for a chip. No chip. The animal shelter also let me know if I wanted to keep her there was a 3 day period where I had to leave her
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    with them so see if anyone would claim her. The shelter was full, so they told me as long as I did everything possible to try and find her owner if no one stepped forward after 3 days I would
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    be able to claim her. I was hesitant to name her and get attached because I figured any minute my phone was gonna ring and it would be her owner. It took me probably 3 weeks before I actually started calling her by her
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    name, Noli. Named after the river I found her on. after weeks turned into months, and now months have turned into a year, I guess she is stuck with me! A week after I found her we went to the vet for a checkup and found out she
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    was absolutely FULL of worms. 3 different kinds but I can't remember exactly what kind. Took almost a month and a half, and 3 different types of dewormer, but today I'm happy to say she's as healthy as can be! I gave her
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    a bath a couple days before I took her to her vet appointment and I've never saw bath water so dirty. The whole bottom of the tub was a fine layer of dirt and red clay mud. I don't know how long she was out and about mucking through
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    the wilderness but she will never have to do it again as long as I'm here
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