Connie spent more than a week inside a shipping container before being rescued by the Coast Guard.
Tens of thousands of shipping containers move through the Port of Houston. So members of the U.S. Coast Guard say it's a miracle they found Connie in one of them.
“If we didn’t find her that day she wouldn’t have been found at all, that’s what I think,” said Marine Science Technician 2nd class Ryan McMahon.
A team of U.S. Coast Guard members were conducting their daily inspections at the port when they heard Connie calling out for help. They could hear her banging from inside a shipping container that was four stories up.
A crane was used to bring the container down to the ground, and when the door opened, a very sweet and friendly dog popped out.
Get top local stories in Philly delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC Philadelphia's News Headlines newsletter.
She now has a new “leash” on life.
Connie is living with a foster family waiting to start her new life in Maryland at Forever Changed Animal Rescue.
“She’s been great! I have four kids, two dogs — a great Dane and a Pitbull mix — and she’s been great with them, and a cat, so whoever is going to adopt her hit the jackpot,” foster mom Jennifer Wendeburg told KPRC-TV.
U.S. & World
Stories that affect your life across the U.S. and around the world.
Connie is scheduled to take a private plane to Maryland on Feb. 7 where a long list of folks are waiting to give her a forever home.
