It was a very happy ending for a 9-year-old girl in Montgomery County, TN, and her lovely and loyal dog, Cody.

“She’s the only dog I’ve ever had in my life and she’s a really good dog,” Alliyah McKay told local News Channel 5. “She would follow me everywhere and she would protect me and stuff like if I went outside she will follow me too.

Last week, however, Cody got herself stuck in a culvert while out carousing without her human best friend.

“When I first looked for her I was walking around and I was like, ‘Cody, Cody,’ and finally I heard her whimpering,” said Micki Fielder, the little girl’s grandmother.

After a brief search, Fielder discovered the 15-year-old pup trapped in a nearby drainage culvert.

“First, I really didn’t think it was a problem until I realize she was in there and it was really hard to pull out I started freaking out and I started crying a lot,” said McKay.

They decided to call the professionals in for help, dialing 9-1-1.

“The good Sheriff’s Deputies of Montgomery county came out and they worked and they worked,” said Fielder.

“We did the best we could just wear their hands and they had some Tupperware containers we used for scooping the dirt out,” said Brian Lynch, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputy.

Cody endured about a half hour or so of confinement before the rescue team got her free.

“With the limited tools we had and what they had it was difficult and it seem like it was going to take a lot longer than it did but we were able to get the dog out,” said Denis Bowles, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputy.

Little Aaliyah is now thankful beyond measure to have her best friend back.

“You guys did a really good job,” McKay told the police officers. “It was hard work, too.”

And thankfully, it won’t happen to Cody, or any other dog, again. Someone has since come by and placed large boulders in the drain to prevent this from happening in the future.

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Nanook (also known as “Nookie”) is a hero.

The 7-year-old husky helped rescue an injured hiker last week in the Eagle River Valley of Alaska.

“He’s Alaska’s version of Lassie,” Lt. Eric Olsen, with the Alaska State Troopers, told the Anchorage Daily News.

Amelia Milling, 21, was hiking and fell hundreds of feet when one of her poles broke. Nanook showed up soon after. Milling read his tag, which proclaimed Nanook to be a Crow Creek guide dog. His owner’s name and number was on the tag. Dogs like Nanook frequent the area and escort hikers. Nanook guided her back to the trail, staying with her as she made her way back to camp.

Milling fell again while attempting to cross the Eagle River and Nanook helped pull her from the water. She attempted to lie down and recover, but Nanook would not stop licking her. When Milling finally activated her emergency locator beacon, Nanook relented, lying down. A rescue chopper showed, and she and Nanook rode it to Anchorage, where she was treated for bumps and bruises and released.

Milling, who hails from Tennessee, is deaf. She attends Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Her mother, speaking from her home in Chattanooga, told reporters for the Democrat and Chronicle that her daughter has been an avid hiker for five years and doesn’t let her deafness stop her from anything.

She had planned a three-day hike and was fine until she encountered more snow than expected.

“I’m a Southerner, so I wasn’t thinking about snow,” Milling said via an interpreter.

Nanook was returned to his owner.

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We had to repost this classic favorite of a “talking” husky whose in no mood for kenneling!

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When a husky wandered into her Kansas City, MO, backyard, Jamie Bergman was quick to get attached. The 3-year-old pup showed up on Christmas Day.

“I get a call from my boyfriend, and he says, ‘Funny story,’” Bergman told FOX 4 KC. “He had let our younger husky, Aspen, out to go to the bathroom in the backyard, and he said when he went to get her back inside that there was another husky in our yard. He said he brought it in, and he was skinny and so wet that the whole back half of him was covered in ice.”

They bathed and fed the pup, then took him to be scanned for a microchip — and boy, was he a long way from home!

“I finally get a hold of the owners, and they can’t believe it,” Bergman said of Koda’s family in New Mexico. “They are really confused, first of all, about who I am, how I have their number, and how I have their dog. We get to talking, and I find out that they are from New Mexico and that’s where he is from and that he has been missing for almost a year.”

How Koda managed to make it from New Mexico to Missouri is still a mystery to Bergman, but it’s one she believes has to do more with fate than luck.

“The fact that we had a husky, Skylar, pass away the first of December, it makes me think, ‘Did she have something to do with it? Did she send this dog to us because he needed help?’ How did he jump the fence in my yard? How? It’s so crazy,” she said.

Koda will be back in New Mexico to reunite with his family soon.

“He came at the right time, and it all just kind of worked out because he’s really helping us heal from the loss of our other dog,” Bergman said. “It`s nice to be able to have him here throughout the holidays when it’s always rough. And we have this other dog that we can focus on and love, and he`s giving us back a little bit also. It’s really cool.”