As the old saying goes a dog is man's best friend, but one turtle may now be able to say the same.
A Newfoundland was walking with her owners on Ellisvile Beach in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Monday when she discovered a stranded sea turtle.
The 120-pound, two-year-old pup laid down near the water, and camouflaged against the beach sand was a sea turtle with a light brown shell that had just emerged from the surf of Cape Cod Bay.
Leah and Brad Bares believe they would not have seen the turtle without Veda's vigilance.
Officials with the New England Aquarium do not believe the loggerhead would have survived a few more hours of that kind of exposure with air temperatures in the 20s.
William Gray, a near-by resident and a volunteer with the Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay, helped carry the 40 pound loggerhead off the beach and brought it to the New England Aquarium’s sea turtle hospital in Quincy.
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After four days of slow re-warming, the loggerhead’s body temperature has been brought up five degrees per day, according to aquarium staff.
