Irvine, California - Catching a small dog at a truck yard was a big problem for veteran pooch rescuer Suzette Hall from Irvine, California. "This is one of those rescues that broke me. The kind that makes me cry all the way home. The kind I'm still crying over now," she admitted.

Last Friday, the animal lover got emotional in her Facebook post: "Two weeks ago, somebody dumped her in a huge truck yard.

"Big rigs coming in and out nonstop… 10 to 12 massive trucks every single day, at all hours. Loud engines, giant tires, danger everywhere. There was no place for a tiny little girl to be trying to survive."

Hall wanted nothing more than to pull the little dog out of the scary situation. Sadly, the dog was scared and ran anytime Hall got close.

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Hall said she made multiple 45-minute trips per day to see if the dog had wandered into her traps.

Luck would have it that the rescuer wasn't the only one worried about the pooch: truckers were also trying to help out the stray by throwing her scraps. Unfortunately, their charity thwarted the dog catchers' ability to trap the little dog: she wasn't taking the bait!

"At first, trapping her felt impossible...She was never hungry enough to go into my trap," Hall wrote.

Eventually, the Californian changed her tactics.

Hall couldn't have the well-meaning truckers feeding the stray she was trying to lure in with treats.

So, she approached the truckers and begged them to stop feeding the pooch.

"The truck yard was quieter today. Less trucks. Less noise. And I watched her sitting there, waiting for food that never came," Hall wrote.

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"I honestly think she realized today that nobody was coming to feed her this time."

Eventually, the dog got hungry enough to investigate Hall's bait. The dog went into Hall's trap, but immediately bolted. "She would take a few tiny steps into the trap… then run back out. Again and again... My heart was pounding," wrote the rescuer.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity for Hall, the pooch stepped on the right lever and the trap snapped shut.

"I cannot even explain what happened next. Every truck driver there threw their hands up in the air, cheering," Hall explained.

"Grown men cheering for one tiny little dog. And I just stood there crying harder than I have cried in a very long time."

Hall then brought little dog to the shelter – her hard work paid off!