“She’s my everything.”
One fateful day last summer, Renata Taneyeva was driving home to Austin when she and her friends spotted a dog limping on the side of the road.
Once outside the city, there's not much around other than miles and miles of land, Taneyeva told BuzzFeed. "She was hopping on three legs. We just knew something was wrong," she said. "She was crying. I was crying because I felt so bad seeing such a beautiful animal so hurt."
After finding out the number on her collar was disconnected, Taneyeva comforted the dog in her lap while they drove to an emergency room.
There they discovered she wasn't microchipped, and X-rays showed the dog had a bad break in her front leg. Faced with the hospital asking if she was financially responsible for the surgery, Taneyeva decided to take out a loan to cover the cost.
Kyra got a cast and some pain medication while she waited for the surgery.
"I think she started to realize she was being saved," Taneyeva said. She found out that Kyra was still a puppy at about six months old — and an Alaskan malamute, not a husky as they first suspected.
Renata Taneyeva
To get her back in shape, Kyra needed two surgeries last summer.
The first required putting a metal plate and long pin in her leg, and a month later, a second to remove the pin.
Meanwhile, Taneyeva started reading everything about the breed and found out that malamutes love chewing, but even coating bones with peanut butter didn't entice Kyra.
Renata Taneyeva
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