Woman Rescues Puppy Run Over in the Street, Adopts Her After Emergency Fight for Life (Exclusive)

A unreserved of headlights and nan blur of tires crossed pavement — past nan unthinkable: a puppy lies surgery successful nan mediate of nan road, struck and near for dormant arsenic cars tube past.

Kassie Vaughan's small heart to past extremity changed everything, sparking a viral TikTok that captures nan hopeless rescue and nan conflict for a 2nd chance.

“I thought she was dead,” Vaughan tells PEOPLE, recalling nan infinitesimal she spotted nan battered puppy she would sanction Marcie Ann. “My bosom conscionable told maine conscionable get retired and conscionable move her retired of nan thoroughfare and telephone nan Humane Society truthful she conscionable won’t proceed to get ran over.”

The business unfolded quickly, pinch strangers stepping successful to thief arsenic Vaughan realizes nan grade of nan injuries. “Marcie Ann tried to get up and like, I could show that her bones was broken,” she says, remembering nan infinitesimal she scooped nan puppy retired of danger.

She recalls nan improvisation connected nan broadside of nan road, arsenic 2 others helped her get nan canine to safety. “We each 3 conscionable picked her up, and we put her successful my car, and that’s erstwhile I did collapsed each velocity limit to get her to nan shelter,” Vaughan remembers.

When she arrived, urgency took complete arsenic shelter unit sprang into action, arsenic nan injuries were critical. “They showed a consciousness of urgency,” Vaughan says, describing her operation of fearfulness and alleviation arsenic she surrendered nan puppy to professionals.

Still, Vaughan insisted connected staying adjacent to nan process and volunteering her ain hands successful nan conflict for survival. The likelihood were bleak from nan start, and nan shelter prepared her for a difficult reality. “I conscionable told them conscionable to springiness it a fight,” Vaughan shares, holding connected to dream erstwhile euthanasia was connected nan table.

Those early updates were a blur of dread and determination, arsenic Vaughan documented each measurement of nan puppy’s journey. “My babies were like, ‘Mama, please don’t fto her die,’ ” she remembers.

The family refused to extremity talking to nan puppy, clinging to nan belief that words could tether her to life. “We conscionable support talking to her, for illustration she’ll enactment live if we support talking to her,” Vaughan says.

Then, against nan odds, a displacement arrived arsenic news from nan shelter that nan canine was fighting back. “She’s starting to fight, for illustration she’s doing good,” Vaughan recounts.

“I knew I was gonna support her from nan infinitesimal I sewage her,” she confides, explaining that nan enslaved sealed agelong earlier nan take was official.

Recalling nan nonstop infinitesimal that enslaved crystallized, Vaughan shares, “Me and her… we bonded successful nan car erstwhile she was hollering connected nan TikTok video."

When nan vet yet gave her nan greenish light, nan infinitesimal was surreal. “I was ecstatic,” Vaughan says, recalling nan infinitesimal she learned Marcie Ann was fresh to travel home.

Excitement collided pinch nerves arsenic Vaughan pulled into nan parking lot. “I was moving astir and past I retrieve they telling maine to spell prime her up from nan vet, and I kept connected circling nan vet 'cause I was scared,” she admits.

The infinitesimal she holds Marcie Ann again, nan weight of nan rescue turns into thing brighter. “When I really had her successful my arms, oh, that was my ray up of nan day,” Vaughan says.

However, bringing her location brought caller challenges. Marcie Ann was healing, but she was besides restless and defiant. “Her worry level is astatine a hundred,” Vaughan notes. “She tears nan carpet up, nan padding up, she tears her cage up, her crate pad up."

Despite nan pushback, Vaughan is nary alien to rescues, already raising 2 different dogs. But Marcie Ann’s narration pinch her caller canine siblings is slow-building. “She’ll growl astatine them, sniff them, but she put up pinch 'em because she knows, okay, they're successful nan house,” Vaughan explains.

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Nonetheless, nan acquisition has near an imprint that runs deeper than moreover Vaughan's erstwhile rescue work. “This acquisition has taught maine a batch actually,” she shares. “I ne'er rescued a canine that was connected nan verge of dying. So it decidedly taught maine a lot.”

That school infinitesimal fueled her defense arsenic she considers nan bigger rumor of shelters, adoptions and abandoned pets, conveying that connection pinch her followers. “I conscionable promote them to not shop pinch nan group that are breeding nan dogs,” she urges. “Go and get a shelter pet. They request homes, too.”

Through Marcie Ann’s story, Vaughan wants others to cognize they don’t person to transportation nan full load to make a difference. “If you don't person nan costs to return attraction of nan animal, conscionable return it to nan shelter and they tin find nan basal thief for nan dog,” she explains.