Couple Uses Wedding Fund to Pay for Surgery on Injured Dog Found on Side of Road:

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central Arkansas man, performing a selfless act of service and rescuing a Goldendoodle that was stranded and on the brink of death, acted on an inclination to help.

On Halloween night, Dylan McCay was scrolling on Facebook when he saw a post that instantly grabbed his attention: an injured dog, abandoned on the side of the road, scared and desperate for help. This marked the beginning of an emotional journey for McCay and his fiancé, Emily Roberts.

“As I was just scrolling through all of the comments and stuff, I was seeing a decent amount of comments, and I was just like it doesn’t seem like anything’s in action yet, and this is definitely like a time urgent situation," McCay says.

He quickly jumped in his vehicle and embarked on a rescue mission. There it was. Between Conway and Greenbrier, McCay says she likely had been hit by a vehicle and moved over to a nearby driveway. He found her shivering and covered in blood.

“As I got closer to her, she started trying to crawl to me," McCay says.

Family members came to the sight to help. Covering the dog with blankets, they made the journey to Greenbrier Animal Hospital, and the diagnosis was not promising. The dog had bruised lungs, two fractured femurs-one of them an open fracture-and doctors were gravely concerned about infection.

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A surgery surpassing $10,000 meant that McCay and Roberts cut into their wedding fund.

“And so that budget disappeared," McCay says.

They were doing everything they could to give the dog her life back, even traveling to Mississippi for an extensive surgery on Monday. Now, post-operation, the reconstruction was nothing short of successful.

“We went into the weekend thinking that she was going to get amputation on one leg, and then, the other leg hopefully fixed, but Monday morning they were confident that they could fix both of the legs, and that turned out to be true," Roberts says.

Now a part of the family, Dylan and Emily are looking forward to bringing the dog home to be with their other dogs. They plan to name it after a food item, like the rest of their pets, but for a middle name, they chose Acklin. Acklin is the name of the street they found her at.

The couple says they still have a long journey ahead, with physical therapy, vaccinations and spaying, but there is now light at the end of the tunnel.

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