Snickers, the shipwrecked dog, is saved at last

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Snickers is only 8 months old.

But the cocker spaniel already has spent three months adrift on a 48-foot boat and survived four months on a tiny Pacific atoll, where his owners had to leave him behind when they were rescued by a cargo vessel that wouldn’t allow the dog on board.

Now Snickers is in Honolulu, rescued by cruise ship workers, the Humane Society, an airline and others who united to find him a home.

‘It’s an amazing story of a lot of people working together to save this puppy,’ said Evans Hoyt, captain of Norwegian Cruise Line’s Pride of Aloha. ‘He’s a very, very lucky dog.’

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-- Francisco Vara-Orta