A woman in San Antonio has made several attempts to rescue a dog she found in the snow-capped streets of Texas. When all else fails, she realizes she has one last idea: use tortillas.
Kristin Salinas-Labrador, 28, was returning from work when she saw a black Labrador on the road and immediately pulled over. Although she wanted to get close to him, the dog was too scared. When she remembered that her wife had told her to bring tortillas home earlier in the day, she could use them to slowly get him into the car by breaking it into pieces, an encounter captured by WOAI.
After placing several pieces in the car, she was able to lure the dog to the back seat. While this was happening, she called her partner, Nicole Salinas-Labrador, 30, who encouraged her to bring the dog back home.
“Once we see a stray, whether it’s a dog or a cat, we bring it in and try to adopt it,” Nicole told NBC News. “So it was just another day, but we had never been through this snow like that before, so we knew we definitely had to bring this dog along.”
The Puerto Rican native joked on social media that her wife was using her ‘Mexican ways’ to get him inside. They also laughed at the fact that they are from Labrador, and that the dog is a black Lab. “It was meant to be,” she said.
They brought him home, and except that he was cold and scared, the dog looked like he was in a healthy condition. After giving him food and water, the couple nicknamed him “Taco” and searched him for microchips, but could not find one. They posted about him on a few Facebook pages to find his owner, but no one has come forward yet.
Since Nicole is also a leading technician at a local veterinary clinic, she decided to bring him there to keep him informed of his vaccinations and a microchip.
And even though Taco is seventy pounds, Nicole jokingly says he thinks he’s a lap dog.
As for the next steps, Nicole would love to keep Taco, but because they have a few rescue dogs, the couple is unfortunately at their best. Meanwhile, she plans to keep the one-year-old dog in their home while they find him ‘the best home forever’.
“I have people left and right who say they want this dog. That they want the ‘tortilla dog,'” she said.
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