An abandoned dog with a tragic past was saved on Wednesday after a boat crew in northeast Ohio found her stranded on the Cuyahoga River.

The gray-brown terrier mix was spotted desperately huddled against the side of a lake freighter dock, where she barely had enough space to sit and stay dry above the lapping water.

A crewman with Holiday Boat Charters saw the pup while he, his fellow crewmen and their passengers were passing by, according to Captain Bill Bratton with Holiday Boat Charters.

At that point, the crew announced a Man Overboard drill and carefully backed up their boat to the dock where the pup was sitting.

Bratton and a man with the Cleveland Division of Water then stepped off the boat in an attempt to retrieve the dog. But as Bratton reached out for her, the

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