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Dog Found In A Trash Bag Gets The Ultimate Flight To Freedom

Not everyone pays close attention to the random flutterings of plastic bags at the dump.

After all, how could anyone imagine the faint movement inside one of those bags wasn’t trash at all — but rather a living, breathing animal?

But a woman in Costa Rica must have had an eye trained for tragedy when she spotted something squirming in a plastic bag at the communal dump.

She opened it to find a 6-month-old puppy.

That’s the moment the story of Zoey truly began. Not the  dump where someone tried to throw her away, but when the bag opened and this tiny dog connected with her first real friend.

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And that friend led to more friends.

After finding Zoey, the woman called her sister, a member of Charlie’s Angels Animal Rescue, a group that saves countless dumped and neglected dogs in Costa Rica. And those Angels found Zoey a place at the shelter.

“Zoey had some health issues because she was malnourished, iron deficient and anemic,”  Anette Targowksi a Canadian rescuer who finds homes for Costa Rican dogs, tells iHeartDogs.

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When Zoey found her footing in life, the dog was ready for another kind of journey.

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Targowski had found her a foster parent in Montreal, Canada.

“My friend lives in Montreal so it was a great match,” she says.

And so this week, Zoey found herself no longer a discarded package, but a passenger boarding a flight to her new life.

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Her rescuers bid her an emotional farewell before she boarded the plane.

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“I cried when she left for Canada,” Tania Cappelluti, one of the founders of Charlie’s Angels Animal Rescue, tells iHeartDogs.

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And on the other side?

“She flew into Montreal and my friend didn’t have to travel a lot to pick her up from the airport,” Targowksi says.

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But Zoey’s story has yet another chapter. Targowski says she’s just finishing the paperwork for her adoption. As in, a real family.

Zoey’s next ticket is to Foreverville.

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Think you might like to help more dogs get there? Consider making a donation to Charlie’s Angels animal Rescue – Costa Rica here.

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