Friday, January 10, 2014
Blind dog back home after being rescued from bay by police boat
A blind dog named Frankie is back with his family after he was found
swimming in Biscayne Bay, Miami. A Marine Patrol officer rescued him on
Monday morning. Johanne Poirier spotted the little dog swimming from her
home in the Venetian Islands. She and her husband tried to coax him
onto shore.
“He went on the boat and called the dog ‘come here, come here’ trying to
get the dog. Finally he grabbed the dog on the boat,” Poirier said. No
sooner had they get the dog onto their boat, Frankie, a 12-year-old
chihuahua-cocker spaniel mix, jumped back into the water and started
swimming away again. “I called the police,” said Poirier, “I was
worried.”
Miami Beach Marine Patrol Officer Vicente Canete came to the rescue.
“The dog was pretty much swimming 100 yards east of De Lido Island,”
Canete explained, adding, “I approached the dog slowly, I didn’t want to
spook it away, and it immediately came swimming to the boat so it made
it easy for me to lean over the boat and grab it and retrieve it from
the water.”
Canete says he was surprised to learn later Frankie is blind. “When
he swam to the boat I thought he swam because he saw me but that wasn’t
the case. He was blind,” said Canete After finding a microchip, Frankie
was reunited with his owners Melissa and Jeremiah Heffron, much to the
relief of everyone who helped save him. “He was so cute and a nice dog.
You could see he’s from a good family,” said Poirier.
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