H O W C O O L I S T H I S . . .
Miracle dog emerges from burnt house one month after devastating blaze
Wednesday, March 23rd 2011, 3:50 PM
MSPCA
Lola, a longhaired dachshund, is being treated for severe malnutrition but is otherwise doing fine, veterinarians nursing her back to health said. 
MSPCA
Lola is being treated with an IV hooked up to one paw. A pooch presumed dead after a raging house fire in Boston has miraculously emerged from the ashes one month after the devastating blaze.
Lola, a longhaired dachshund, is being treated for severe malnutrition but is otherwise doing fine, veterinarians nursing her back to health said.
"She's in tremendous shape given the ordeal she went through," said a vet treating Lola at the Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston.
Lola was home alone when the fast-moving blaze broke out. Her owner Terisa Acevedo, 24, arrived home to find her house in charred ruins and no sign of her beloved pet.
"It was so devastating for me," she told a local Fox affiliate. "I felt like I lost a family member."
Firefighters found no trace of the dog.
Acevedo papered her neighborhood with flyers seeking tips on Lola, but after a few weeks she gave up hope that her pup had survived the blaze.
She returned to her burned home Monday to turn off the alarm on a truck still parked there and heard scratching from inside the boarded-up house. It was Lola.
"I called out her name and she started crying," Acevedo said. "It was a miracle."
Lola was taken to the animal hospital Monday night, and a slow feeding regimen began Wednesday -- just 1 teaspoon of food every six hours to help refuel her emaciated body.
Vets said the tiny pup is "surprisingly upbeat" despite the traumatic fire and various medical treatments, which include an IV line hooked up to one bandaged paw.
Acevdeo said she is overjoyed to be reunited with Lola, who is not quite 2 years old.
"When I found her, it just made me think nothing else in the world can bother me right now," she said.
ljohnston@nydailynews.com
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