Priority, a stray dog, was only 7 weeks old when a postal worker came upon him. The heeler mix was abandoned in the middle of a dirt road on a South Dakota reservation. The dog didn’t have much time because to the extreme heat and the lack of food, drink, or relatives around.
Before she drew up next to him and scooped him up, the postal carrier had no idea what the minor bump on the road was.
She placed the puppy in one of her priority boxes, which eventually inspired his name, and put him next to her in the mail truck.
“He showed his appreciation by helping her finish delivering the mail,” Azure Davis, director of Ruff Start Rescue, told The Dodo. After they finished the mail route, the postal worker took Priority to the vet.
Priority was fortunately free of any diseases or injuries, but he was very dehydrated. Due of the heatwave, they think the friendly postal carrier discovered Priority just in time.
If she hadn’t stopped to pick him up, “he definitely wouldn’t have made it,” Davis said.
When Priority was well enough to leave the vet, a nearby shelter got in touch with Ruff Start Rescue to ask if they might take in the adorable dog.
Ruff Start happily agreed and welcomed Priority into their shelter in early August. Less than three days later, his first adoption application came in.
Davis wasn’t surprised at all. “I mean, look how cute he is,” she said.
Priority has an endearingly distinctive attribute to complement his adorable backstory: his big, pointed ears.
Davis said, “His ears are split.” They are unable to determine whether to remain aloft or to descend.
However, Priority’s personality is the only feature that is bigger than his ears. His current foster mother told The Dodo that “he’s a lot bigger dog in a little body.”
According to his foster mom, who’s taking care of Priority while he waits to meet his forever family, the young puppy has blossomed in the few weeks since his rescue.
“He’s a very friendly and confident pup,” his foster mom said. “And so grateful to the mail carrier who [rescued] him.”
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