Family Road Trip Save Puppy Abandoned In Arizona Desert

A family on a cross-country road trip saves a puppy they find abandoned in the Arizona desert. Last week, while on a driving vacation from Oklahoma to California, Kristina Mumford, her siblings, and her dad stopped in the middle of the Arizona desert to snap a picture. As they are taking a group photo, they hear something in the bushes nearby. When they go to investigate the sound, they find a puppy, beaten up and malnourished, abandoned in the desert.

Mumford looks at her dad and says, “We can’t leave him out here, we have to take him with us.” So they load up the pup and take him with them to their next stop: The Grand Canyon. The family wants to take the pup on their road trip with them, but the hotels they plan to stay in won’t allow the dog, who they name Canyon, after their last stop. So they take Canyon with them to La Jolla, California, where Mumford’s cousin, Ro Blackwood, agrees to foster the dog.

Canyon settles into Blackwood’s home pretty quickly, warming up to the family and their two other dogs. Blackwood sets up a Facebook page to tell Canyon’s story and to possibly find him a new home, although Blackwood’s family hasn’t ruled out keeping Canyon. In pics and videos posted to the page, Canyon looks clean and healthy, a far cry from the state he was found in back in the Arizona desert.

Source: Newsweek


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