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A Kelowna woman whose dog was taken in by a stranger when she was rushed to hospital is hoping the stranger will now return the dog.

“I do appreciate you helping me and helping Sula, but we’d like to have her back home,” said Brenda Turner of her missing 13-year-old Maltese Shih Tzu cross.

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On May 26, Turner decided to take a walk with Sula at Tsawwassen Beach, after dropping off her boyfriend at the Tsawwassen ferry terminal and before making the drive back to Kelowna.

The 43-year-old said she hadn’t gone very far from where she parked her car just off the main road in a makeshift gravel lot when she began to feel her heart rate jump and her vision started to blur.

Desperate for help and not seeing anyone nearby on the beach, she made her way back up to the main road with Sula by her side, where she tried to flag down a passing car.

“I thought, ‘Oh my gosh. I need help,’ ” she recalled. “So I started screaming for help.”