Reporter: Amanda Goodman
Tuesday, 16 Mar 2010
FARMINGTON, N.M. (KREZ) - One New Mexico dog found his way home recently by wandering into a hospital.
For more than a week the Juckes family was sick with worry because beloved rescue dog Scottie went missing on March 7, 2010.
They did everything they could think of to find him, from taking out an ad in the newspaper, to posting flyers around town and even checking the animal shelter daily.
Still, they were not able to track him down.
“He is a pretty good tempered dog so I was hoping he was always safe and that somehow we would find him,” Randy Juckes said.
Instead, Scottie found them.
“I was reading the paper this morning and there he was on the front page,” Juckes said.
Scottie was featured in an article Tuesday after he walked into the San Juan Regional Medical Center’s Emergency Room Saturday night.
The hospital has surveillance cameras and Scottie’s visit was caught on tape.
"I thought that was odd, I don't know what he was doing, but maybe he thought to himself he needed help,” Juckes said.
Someone at the hospital called animal control and Scottie was taken to the Farmington Animal Shelter where he remained until the Juckes’ read the story in the paper and they were able to reunite with their 11-year-old mix Tuesday morning.
Amazingly Scottie was OK after his weeklong escapade.
He wasn’t immediately returned to his owners because he had no identification tags, something Randy plans to change.
He said he is getting Scottie ID tags on Tuesday.
Source: http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/local/northwest/lost-dog-wanders-into-hospital
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