Daily Mail.<\/a>\u00a0“There was just only thing left to say — Scamp was dead.”<\/p>\nHe had escaped the back yard through a hole under the fence, had run out into the road and was hit by a car. He was apparently so badly injured that he had died on the road.<\/p>\n
Reta’s husband, Paul, wrapped him a blanket and worried how to break the news to the 6-year-old twin grandsons who live with them.<\/p>\n
Paul had been talking to their son, the twins’ dad, when they heard a yelp and then a thud. He ran out to the street to find the dog motionless and the female driver crying.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe checked to see if we felt any breathing out of his nose, and we couldn\u2019t feel any heartbeat,\u201d recalls Reta.<\/p>\n
Paul wrapped Scamp in a blanket. They placed his body under an overturned wheelbarrow so no animals could get to him, with plans to talk to the first graders, plan a puppy funeral, then bury Scamp in the garden the next morning.<\/p>\n
Reta sat down with the boys and explained that Scamp\u00a0“had gotten hit by a car and that he had gone to heaven like in that movie, All Dogs Go to Heaven.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/em>The boys took it badly and started crying.<\/p>\nThe next morning, Paul went outside to put the puppie’s body in a shoebox for the upcoming ceremonies. He lifted up the wheelbarrow.<\/p>\n
Scamp was sitting up, looking baffled by the whole thing.<\/p>\n
Four days and $3,000 later in veterinary bills, Scamp came home. He\u2019d suffered a concussion and broken teeth — and a possible fractured jaw. Fearing Scamp wouldn\u2019t make it, they hadn\u2019t told the kids their dog was still alive.<\/p>\n
Reta says Paul had been \u201cdistraught\u201d that he left Scamp out in the cold, but the vets told the couple that’s probably what saved the unconscious pup’s life.<\/p>\n
The cold temperatures kept the dog alive, keeping his brain from swelling.<\/p>\n
It just seems it wasn’t God’s plan for Scamp to leave his twins.<\/p>\n
Not for now, anyway.<\/p>\n
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