By CASEY NEILL
VICKI the epileptic life-saving dalmatian returned to her Springvale South home this morning (Friday) after disappearing on Saturday night.
Owner Kath Cushen was all but speechless following the reunion.
“I’m just so over the moon. It’s just such a relief,” she said.
“We’re all so excited.
“I honestly didn’t think I’d find her.”
A Dingley Bypass construction site worker called Ms Cushen about 10am and said a dalmatian had been hiding beneath an excavator all week.
“They’d been feeding her when they saw her in the morning and at night before they went,” she said.
She immediately drove to the site with her husband and neighbour.
“She just looked over and I said ‘come on baby girl’ and she came running over,” she said.
“I felt as if it’d won Tattslotto – or better.”
Ms Cushen gave muddy Vicki a bath, her medication and a good feed.
“We’ve now got to retrace our steps and thank all the people,” she said.
“The help that we’ve received is just mind-blowing.”
She said Vicki must have wandered from parkland near Westall and Heatherton roads during a walk on Saturday night and lost her bearings.
“This dog saved my mother’s life,” she said.
“My mother is in her nineties and had a fall in the backyard.
“Vicki alerted the neighbours.
“The only reason that they found her was that Vicki was barking.
“She kept running to the fence. The neighbour looked over and saw my mother on the ground.
“My mother couldn’t have got up.”
