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**Bumped Up From TAM Wire. Posted By bamconola**

I know Tammy loves great animal rescue stories. All Tams will enjoy this one.

Via USA Today:

Fishing guide Brian Carper didn’t have to use a pole to make a big catch the day after Christmas.

All he needed was a soft spot in his heart for a blind dog in trouble.

Carper left his boat to rescue the tiny 13-year-old shih tzu who wandered into Percy Priest Lake. Carper returned the dog to his grateful owners, who had been searching for their beloved pet for 15 hours.

“When we got him back it was a reminder to me that God watches over his creatures both great and small,” said Barbara Gibbs, who along with her husband, Jerry, owns the dog named Tennessee,
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Tennessee, who also has a failing kidney and a bad leg, disappeared after Barbara Gibbs let him out around 3 a.m. Saturday to relieve himself.

A storm was brewing, and a clap of thunder frightened Tennessee. He took off running from his home on Stewarts Ferry Pike.

“We started looking for him everywhere with flashlights all over the place,” Barbara Gibbs said….

The frightened pooch apparently did not stop running until he traveled more than a mile and found himself in the shallow water at Percy Priest Lake.

That’s where Carper and two of his clients spotted the shivering ball of fur the next morning….

Carper pulled his boat as near as he could, close enough to see it was a small dog. Carper couldn’t get close enough to reach him, so he jumped into the water and grabbed Tennessee….