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A story that will tear at your heart strings. USA TODAY
Silas, with Alex and Ally Stead (Photo: Photo provided by Ally Stead)
MUNCIE, Ind. —The case of a missing Texas dog went viral on Facebook over the weekend, in part because of the helpful spirit of residents in one Indiana county.
The story did not come with a happy ending, unfortunately, but Ally Stead was nevertheless thankful for the many people in the town of Gaston and northwestern Delaware County that came to her assistance when an I-69 crash led to her dog running away.
Ally, of Caddo Mills, Texas, and her husband, Alex, and dog Silas were traveling through Indiana Saturday night on their way to visit family in Ohio. They hit a patch of icy road a mile north of the Ind. 28 exit and ended up coming to a stop, upside down, in their truck.
"The last memory I have of (Silas) is when we were upside down I remember reaching and feeling him," Ally Stead said. "When we came to a stop, all of the windows were shattered, and he was gone. We never saw him."
She posted on Facebook that night asking for help in finding Silas, and was hopeful when she went to bed seeing that 30 people had shared her post. She was beyond excited when she saw the post had more than 1,000 shares the next morning.
And even though Silas' body was found Monday morning near I-69 a couple miles from the crash scene, the Steads were touched by the outpouring of support from those wanting to help. The number of Facebook shares ballooned from 1,000 overnight to more than 18,000 24 hours later, and they learned of Delaware County residents in the area going door to door looking for Silas, people on four-wheelers, and out in the freezing rain.
"People that didn't know us, people that didn't know Silas," she said. "People spent endless hours trying to help us."
The Steads were traveling north on I-69, and Silas' body was found a couple miles south, near the southbound lanes.
Silas was Ally's first dog, having grown up without a dog as a pet. Alex is a Marine, and they adopted Silas after transitioning from military life to civilian life and getting their own home in a community near Dallas.
"He knew the sound of opening a jar of peanut butter," she said. "When he saw me get a bag of popcorn out of the pantry, he would sit at the microwave waiting."
In her farewell to Silas on Facebook, Stead gave a small shout-out to the people of Delaware County.
"Just know baby boy that there was an entire community out there looking for you and thinking of you. You went viral baby!"
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