Honey the dog is reunited with her owner J.C. Vickers, right, and his great-grandson Dawson Fletcher in front of the home of her rescuer Lisa Copeland in Ooltewah on Sunday. Copeland rescued Honey after a tornado struck Vickers’ home Friday.Looking at his grandfather’s collapsed, tornado-ravaged garage, David Fletcher tried not to lose hope for the dog he knew had been inside.
As his family tried to put their lives together, he made it his mission to find his grandfather’s 5-year-old Lab-German shepherd mix, Honey.
But when he found her, it wasn’t in a field or a home, it was on the Times Free Press web site. Honey was front-page news – a photographer had captured an image of two women carrying the dog amid storm debris.
Fletcher contacted the photographer and reporter, but neither knew what had become of Honey. The rescuers in the photo didn’t, either.
He hit another dead end when he used the photo in a social media campaign.