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Last updated on Friday, January 9, 2015
(LAFAYETTE) - A couple is thanking animal control officers who rescued their dog after it spent 25 hours wandering in bitter cold after a housekeeper accidentally released the pooch from their hotel room.
The 3 1/2-year-old Belgian Malinois named Sahara, who the couple saved from an abusive home, is back with Nick Hoeh and Rick Dunkle after her ordeal in Lafayette, where the couple recently moved from California.
A hotel housekeeper accidentally released Sahara from the couple's hotel room Tuesday. The couple is staying at that hotel because a burst pipe damaged the new Lafayette home they had just purchased. The water caused $75,000 damage to the house they just purchased.
"The moment we got into our new home, we heard like Niagara Falls in our house," Hoeh said. "We saw that there was water completely pouring out of the sink. It destroyed the brand new hardwood that just got put in."
Almost immediately, Lost and Found Pets of Great Lafayette jumped into action to help create "missing dog" fliers and helped alert the community, including Lafayette Animal Control, said Jennifer Smith, a volunteer with the group.
Animal control officers found the shivering canine Wednesday in a Lafayette resident's backyard following several sightings.
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