A cocker spaniel named Simba miraculously survived an encounter with the third rail of the CTA Brown Line tracks early Monday on the Northwest Side.
The 10-year-old canine went lacking late Sunday as his homeowners futzed with a storage door that wasn’t working correctly within the 4300 block of North Lawndale Avenue within the Albany Park neighborhood.
“We immediately started looking around the neighborhood,” stated Frances Jimenez, who’d simply returned house from a double shift as a nursing assistant and was trying ahead to mattress when she realized her canine was gone.
“He’s like our baby, a part of the family,” she stated, noting her and her husband filed a police report within the wee hours of the night time.
She was about to start out posting flyers across the neighborhood when she received a name from her daughter, who discovered the pup on the metropolis pound, 2741 S. Western Ave.
Simba had apparently wandered a few mile earlier than making an attempt to cross the CTA Brown Line tracks close to the Kedzie cease about 5:45 a.m. as a prepare approached.
CTA workers observed the canine, lower electrical energy to the tracks and safely rescued the canine, in response to CTA spokeswoman Irene Ferradaz.
Simba apparently got here into contact with the third rail thrice, however was doing simply effective and was again house Tuesday afternoon, Jimenez stated.
“It’s a miracle he’s alive, and it’s a wonderful thing to know there are people out there willing to help,” she stated.