A puppy is saved. A happy story to start the day:

Driver pulls over, finds puppy wedged in engine of car


LANCASTER, SC (NBC) - A Lancaster woman rushing to see her husband in the emergency room was forced to stop her car because of a strange noise.

"The puppy was actually stuck," Darlene Broome said about an 8-week-old lab she found under the hood of her car. "I've heard of cats doing this before, getting up in motors of vehicles, but never a puppy or dog."

It all started when Broome's husband woke up in pain. "My husband was having chest pains at 5:30am," she said. The couple called an ambulance. Broome followed frantically behind for 30 miles. "I kept hearing this whining like an animal noise coming from around my car," she said.

Anxious to get to the hospital, Broome stopped. "Opened the hood and there was a small, black, fuzzy puppy's head with his little white eyes showing," Broome said. The puppy was wedged in the motor on top of the transmission.

"I'm thinking, 'I need to get to the hospital as quickly as possible and I can't leave this little puppy stuck in my car,'" Broome said.

So she flagged down help. Matt Baxley, a mechanic on his way to work, stopped to assist. "The lady was broke down in the middle of the road and I stopped to help her," he said. He knew the minute he saw the dog he would need help. "She was definitely stuck," Baxley recounted. "We had to take a good bit off the car to get the dog out."

But he didn't have any tools to tear into Broome's car. "It was about to be at the point where she had to decide if she wanted to save the dog, or she wanted her car to make it on to the hospital," Baxley said. "Luckily, those guys showed up with tools and we got her out of there without breaking the car."

The puppy's belly was burned, but Broome had to get to her husband so Baxley rushed the dog to the vet. After speeding a few days there, she is fine. Baxley's friend adopted the dog.

"It was a miracle they helped me, got the puppy and my husband's fine," Broome said.

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Angels all around.....

After speeding a few days there, she is fine.

I knew she was in a hurry to get to the hospital - thus the speeding - but a few days seemed excessive. How far was this hospital anyway?

It was only then that I realized they were talking about the dog spending a few days at the vet,

:rofl:

Glad nothing worse happened to the little puppy.

For most of my life I drove $100 cars. What a life. :)

Glad poochie is now safe and loved.