Tabby

If only everyone with a lost dog could have such coincidences occur. This family was lucky that the dog's "new" family were willing to give him up; not that they shouldn't but a lot of families wouldn't. But think about it -- it sounds like this dog was living just a few blocks away for all that time. Enjoy the story.

EMT finds her lost dog on run scene
By John Hultgren, Kentucky EMS Connection


MARION — A family dog missing for a year is now back at home after being found living with a patient.
Crittenden County EMS paramedic Richard Turner told us the story that began last Saturday night, Mar. 30.

Turner and his partner, Dana Doom, were working a 24-hour shift when they were dispatched at midnight on a 911 call for chest pain no more than three blocks away.

While Turner was assessing and treating the patient he recalls noticing a "little dog that was very friendly." After transporting the patient to the hospital, "Dana walked up to me and said that the dog we saw was her dog Tabby. She just knew it."

Doom asked the patient's wife where they had gotten the dog, and the wife told them they had gotten the dog from a man in the country.

On Monday Doom's husband went to the patient's house with pictures of their Tabby. The dog responded to its old name, and when Doom's husband told the family their dog had a birthmark on it's belly, the family "turned the dog over and, sure enough, there was the birth mark," Turner said.

After seeing the birthmark, the patient's family was convinced and returned the dog to the Dooms.

"So the Doom family -- Mom, Dad, and their little girl -- are tickled pink," Turner said. "I saw the little girl with the dog Wednesday and she was happy beyond belief."

Source: http://www.hultgren.org/news/02-2/02-0077.html