A snow plow driver was crawling through near-white out conditions on Long Island when he saw something strange.
Kenny McGowan has had to stop his snow plow in the past for all manner of hidden obstacles and hazards, from buried cars to fallen branches.
Instead, two slight figures were running along the asphalt/ice/snow/salt poutine that McGowan has scraping away.
“I looked over and I seen something in the corner of my eye right there, and then I looked in my mirror and I saw a dog. I’m like ‘that’s a dog running,'” McGowan told CBS News.
“I immediately put my sirens on, and stayed right behind them. Being an animal lover, being a father, I went right into protection mode … I was gonna do whatever I had to do to stop these dogs from getting hurt.”
He kept going until he was able to turn his plow sideways near Town Hall and block the dogs’ path, after which they ran shoulder to shoulder into the middle of a median strip and buried themselves in 3 feet of snow.
With the help of several Good Samaritans, who perhaps wanted to know why the truck driver had blocked the road, or because they too had seen the dogs, McGowan managed to get the two uncollared Labrador-mixes into the back of his truck.
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The “animal lover” brought them immediately to the nearest animal shelter, whose staff heard the story and told CBS that both dogs could have frozen to death buried out of sight in the drift.
When they arrived in the shelter it was clear to everyone the two dogs were bonded. They didn’t leave each other’s side at any point, and the shelter didn’t bother trying to separate them.
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While they didn’t have collars, both were microchipped. Their owners were notified, and the dogs returned to what would presumably be an extra-warm doggie bed that night.
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