EDGERTON - Cats may have nine lives, but these puppies have at least two. First, a Minneapolis-based animal rescue group agreed to take them from a southern Wisconsin shelter where they likely would have been euthanized. But as three volunteers transported dozens of the dogs, their cargo van hit a patch of ice on Interstate 39-90 and struck a guardrail under the Highway 59 overpass near Edgerton. "My first concern was for the dogs," said volunteer Janine Campbell, who was driving when the van crashed around 7:45 a.m. Sunday. Some kennels broke, but most of the animals were too scared to leave their cages, Campbell said. One puppy was missing. Firefighters found her half an hour later, frozen to the driver's-side wheel well. A broken jug had spilled water on her fur. "She could barely move," Safe Hands Rescue volunteer Lynne Bengtson said. "I thought there was no way she was going to make it." The puppy and 65 other cold, scared dogs were saved when a tow truck moved the van to the Hillside Springs Hunt Club. Owner Andy Walton quickly loaded the puppies into the club's kennel and called his veterinarian, Terry Johnson. Some puppies were dehydrated, and one had a bruised leg, Johnson said. He brought food and supplies for the dogs, and a Madison rescue group, The Twig Project, donated more. The Twig Project also took some puppies that needed extra care. Meanwhile, Walton and his son called friends and relatives to help. "People just started showing up," Bengtson said. "They fed, they watered, they comforted these poor animals." By Monday, the puppies were ready for a second van to take them to Minnesota -- except for the little one stuck to the wheel well. Johnson and his wife adopted her. "She's like a new dog today, a normal puppy," Johnson said Monday. "It's unbelievable." (Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)