A dog is being called Lucky Penny after coming perilously close to death. The dog was struck by a train in Richmond, Virginia, and though she lost her tail and one leg, is in remarkably good shape!
A CSX worker who was patrolling the tracks saw the badly injured dog and called animal control. Her right hind leg and tail had been severed, but she was alert and wagging her little stump.
Because birds are prey animals, they’ll mask signs of illness until they can’t fake it any longer. This helps them survive in the wild, where predators look specifically for the weak and ill animals in a flock in order to take them down more easily.
