Dog Team Delivers Food, Other Supplies To Elderly Residents In Maine Amid Coronavirus Lockdown

The coronavirus pandemic is bringing catastrophic changes to the world. Humans are getting a wide-angle view of how the world works or should work. Animals are no less in teaching us comradery that helps human beings exist or in the current scenario say "survive." The world seems to be a better place when we all go hand in hand to help each other survive.

Hannah Lucas and her huskies are doing their part to save the world by delivering food to seniors citizens who are currently homebound in a rural part of the northeasternmost state of Maine amid the coronavirus lockdown.

Lucas, a clerk at the Circle K in Caribou, said, "I just noticed that there were a lot of people, specifically the elderly, coming in just to buy the milk or eggs, or fruit that we have here."

Lucas moved to Maine roughly two years ago from her home state of Virginia to pursue a lifelong dream of mushing.

Lucas is making herself an integral part of the community by doing this humane act of delivering food and supplies to a high-risk part of the population especially elderly people who are miles away from restaurants or even stores that sell essential goods.

"And I just wanted to help them minimize leaving their house during this time of a pandemic," she said.

The musher purchases and delivers orders received via phone.

Adhering to the social distancing guidelines she and her huskies deliver the food packages that include mainly groceries at the entrances of their homes. She places the packages on the ground and then calls her clients to let them know where she is waiting.

She then steps back to a distance and waits until the customers review their order before returning home with a smiling face and a sense of self-content.

"I think about my grandparents who are in their 70's and I wouldn't want anything to happen to anyone," Lucas says. "So anything I can do to help, I will."

Lucas said her voicemail was full by midmorning when the Maine Public Radio first announced about her and her huskies. She tries to take four to six orders a day because she needs to ensure the good health of her dogs too.