Noel and Donovan returned as it was getting dark, looking as if they’d spent their time wading through a swamp.
“It wasn’t quite that bad,” Donovan said when Jax commented on their appearance. “The dog did not want to be caught so she decided to hide in a drainage pipe.”
“A big dog?” Susan asked.
“No,” Noel replied. “A mutt with at least some Husky in her. She was scared shitless and injured. The vet says she probably had a run-in with at least one other dog or some of the wildlife in the area, or both. If we hadn’t been wearing gloves, we’d have bites to show exactly how much she didn’t trust us.”
“She’ll be okay, though?” Jax asked.
“Yeah,” Donovan said. “It’ll take a while before she can be moved over here. Of course she didn’t have a chip, and if she had a collar when she ran away
