Feb. 05--Two dogs -- a mother and daughter -- wandered onto the Bishop Ford Freeway early Thursday, slowing traffic before the owner's daughter pulled up in an SUV and scooped them up.
"I was driving to work and I heard two dogs, and I knew they were my dogs," Angela Myrick told WGN-TV.
The dogs, white Akitas named Shiloh and Charlie, disappeared out the door of Myrick's home on the Far South Side around 8 p.m. "We looked for them until midnight, and I went out at 4 a.m. again," she said.
Around 6 a.m., a semitrailer driver spotted the dogs on southbound I-94 near 115th Street, according to Illinois State Police. He pulled over and flagged a Minute-Man truck for help.
Myrick said she tried calling her daughter when she heard on the news that the dogs were apparently on the Bishop Ford. "But I couldn't wake her up," she said.
A neighbor had also heard the news and knocked on the door and told Myrick's daughter, Morgan.
State police and IDOT workers had corralled the dogs to the shoulder of the expressway when Myrick's daughter pulled up in a red SUV, grabbed the dogs by their collars and put them into the back seat.
Myrick said Shiloh is 4, and Charlie is 8 months old.
"I was really concerned because it was so cold last night and they are not outdoor dogs," Myrick said. "They're home sleeping now. I have to get them cleaned up."
The dogs were the second diversion on the Bishop Ford overnight. Hours earlier, a pickup truck driver sped onto a car carrier while the two vehicles headed south on the expressway.
