Kim BrattainFounder/ CEO, Kim Brattain Media · Award-winning Corporate and Documentary Film Producer

Great Pyrenees Rescue of Western N.C. | The Great Pyrenees Rescue

2 Feb 2026 · 2 min

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In this video, a rescuer recounts the dramatic rescue of a Great Pyrenees during Hurricane Debbie in central North Carolina. A woman found the injured dog in a ditch amid the storm and contacted the rescue organization via Facebook. The dog suffered a fractured leg, fractured pelvis, and a ruptured bladder, requiring an urgent six‑hour double‑team surgery performed overnight. The narrator explains the critical nature of the operation, the dog’s ongoing recovery needs—including extensive bed rest and physical therapy—as the bones fuse. The rescue group launched multiple fundraising campaigns (Cuddly campaign, PayPal, Facebook, GoFundMe) to cover the high veterinary costs, and faced some public skepticism about spending so much on one animal, which they countered by emphasizing the dog’s fighting spirit and sweetness. The video serves both as a rescue story and a call for continued support.

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A lady had gone out in between those first initial bands of Hurricane Debbie coming through central North Carolina, and she saw some ladies out in the ditch next to the highway with the dog on the ground. By the time they got home, the next wave of rain was coming through, knocked out their power. They started reaching out to rescues, animal hospitals, you know, to see if anybody could help her. In the middle of the storm, and she found our Facebook page and sent us a text message around 10:15 that night. I told her I'd take care of the bill, and the vet called me and said, you know, she's got a fractured leg and fractured pelvis. It's more than we can handle here at the emergency clinic. They could tell that her bladder was ruptured and, and empty, which meant all the bladder fluid So they called me 4 o'clock in the morning and they'd finished the surgery, 6-hour surgery. They did a double-team surgery to repair her pelvis and leg. They said if they hadn't done that surgery that night, she would have died. She's a fighter. She's a fighter. She's at the stage where she needs a lot of time to let these bones fuse. They're really starting to join back together, all the little places they were broken. And she needs lots of bed rest and physical therapy. We've got a Cuddly campaign going for her, which has done really well. They chose her as their featured pet, which helped a lot. We've got a PayPal fundraiser, a Facebook fundraiser, and a GoFundMe. I had people call me and, you know, tell me they didn't understand why I'd spend so much money on one dog. And I said, well, you know, sometimes you gotta do it. She's the sweetest thing. This, this is not just medication. This is how she is.