A man and his two grandsons had spotted the dog tied up in the woods. The leash Old Lady had been dragging for over two weeks had finally come in handy.

“A branch got stuck to her leash and then, between the leash and branch, she got herself wound up in the trees and stuck,” Davis wrote. “Thank goodness! It’s the only way we would have gotten her.”

Davis and her partner Julie Lessard approached Old Lady with caution and were able to slip a lead around the shivering dog before cutting her free from the tree.

They couldn’t believe their search was over.

“As soon as we got her into my car and shut the door, I could breathe,” Davis said. “It was over. She was safe. It was such a sense of relief — we were laughing, crying, high-fiving. It was a miracle.”