Rachel Manley suspects it was a thick grove of blackberry bushes that helped keep her missing dog ‘Lulu’ alive for four days after she fell down a cliff. Sadly, Lulu, the missing hairless Chinese crested dog wearing rainbow pajamas , whose story gripped a community, succumbed to dehydration and hypothermia, just hours after being rescued. “You know, honestly, that stupid blackberry bush might have saved her life from predators, because she could have gotten eaten alive, but she didn't,” said Manley, who adds the 13-year-old dog’s discovery and rescue was nothing short of a miracle.
Manley, friends, family and numerous community members had been searching for Lulu ever since she went missing Saturday, June 22, from a dog sitter’s home. Manley added Lulu was with a dog sitter for the first time because she and her (now) husband Jim Williamson got married on Saturday at Porpoise Bay and family members staying at an Airbnb in Halfmoon Bay arranged for Lulu to be with the sitter for the day. Manley said it’s suspected Lulu somehow managed to slip through a screen door, which wasn’t fully secured.
On the evening of Wednesday, June 26, Manley was out looking once again in the Coopers Green area, this time joined by her friend Corrine Dempsey. When an exhausted Manley decided to go home just before 8 p.m.
, Dempsey decided to take one last walk along the beach and that’s when she heard what she described as a “yipping,” sound coming from the bottom of a cliff. Th.
