Mike Linn left the gate open, and his two dogs escaped. One returned to their home in the Evans Cave Creek mobile home park within 30 minutes, but the other dog remained missing.
Linn and his wife searched for Tanka and hoped her collar and microchip would help bring her back home.
Four days later, on May 18, Evans Police Department community service technician Deidra Jesmer responded to a call at the mobile home park — one of the Linns’ neighbors heard a crying animal under their home. Jesmer found Tanka at the bottom of a hole — 4 feet deep and 2 feet wide — where she had been trapped. Jesmer and firefighters rescued Tanka, a 6-year-old mutt, who probably would have died in that sump pump hole, if her crying hadn’t been reported.
The Linns are grateful to everyone involved in saving their dog, especially Jesmer. “Deidra really went the extra mile,” Mike Linn said.
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