--- title: Coast Guard Rescues Lucky Dog on Lake St Clair description: It has reportedly been handed over to a local animal shelter canonical: https://time.com/13041/coast-guard-rescues-dog-on-frozen-lake-nicknames-it-lucky/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-05T19:00:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:47.680Z og:title: Coast Guard Rescues Lucky Dog on Lake St Clair og:description: It has reportedly been handed over to a local animal shelter og:url: https://time.com/13041/coast-guard-rescues-dog-on-frozen-lake-nicknames-it-lucky/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf13cf68386c61871/698683fc35ba6f5878c00cab/coast-guard-dog-rescu_2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: coast-guard-dog-rescu_2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Coast Guard Rescues Lucky Dog on Lake St Clair twitter:description: It has reportedly been handed over to a local animal shelter twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf13cf68386c61871/698683fc35ba6f5878c00cab/coast-guard-dog-rescu_2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Coast Guard Rescues Dog on Frozen Lake, Nicknames It "Lucky"  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 5, 2014 7:00 PM UTC  U.S. Coast Guard/AP  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 5, 2014 7:00 PM UTC The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a dog that was having a ruff week. The crew of the cutter Bristol Bay found a dog that was stranded on the ice of frozen Lake St. Clair Monday, about four to five miles off the coast of the Detroit suburb St. Clair Shores, the Associated Press [reports](http://hosted2.ap.org/FLINV/554c6fcc8ee0461f8eb123c2f36ec552/Article%5F2014-03-05-US-Coast-Guard-Dog-Rescued/id-7226271a61ea407892a9831cf206e329) via [The Detroit Free Press](http://www.freep.com/article/20140305/NEWS05/303050044/coast-guard-rescues-dog-lake-st-clair). Tasked with icebreaking in the Great Lakes region, crew members were en route to extract another vessel that got stuck in the ice when they came across the dog with what looked like some foxes. (**WATCH:** [Winter Satellite Photography Shows Great Lakes Freeze Over](http://science.time.com/2014/02/23/great-lakes-frozen-time-lapse-video/#ixzz2uXJ2jb2I)) “They noticed three burrows the dog tried to dig for itself for protection,” Chief Petty Officer Alan Haraf told the [Detroit Free Press](http://www.freep.com/article/20140305/NEWS05/303050044/coast-guard-rescues-dog-lake-st-clair). “They said the paws were bleeding, and the nails were pretty much down to nothing.” The Coast Guard officials fed and cared for the dog on their ship, nicknaming it “Lucky” before handing it off to a local animal shelter. 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