Naomi, husky

UPDATE: Local Woman Reunited With Lost Dog
Reporter: Chris  Frank, KAKE

After seeing the story on KAKE, an El Dorado man has decided to give back the dog he adopted from the Wichita animal shelter as its rightful owner arrived to pick it up.

Naomi the Siberian Husky was reunited with Kellyn Johnson after the man who adopted the dog saw Chris Frank's story Thursday evening. The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, called the KAKE Newsroom shortly after the story aired. Reporter Frank put the two in contact with each other and they agreed to meet in order to get the dog back to it's rightful owner.

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Chris Frank's original story:

A local dog owner says that after searching for her missing Husky for two months, she finally located it at the Wichita Animal Shelter, but it was too late.

The Husky,named Naomi, escaped from Kellyn Johnson's back yard two months ago. Johnson and her friends had just shaved the dog because of the heat at the time. Because of that, Naomi didn't have her collar and tags on, further complicating the search.

"I looked at Craigslist every day," Johnson said.

It was, in fact, a notice on Craigslist's lost-and-found section which alerted Johnson that Naomi was at the Wichita Animal Shelter after officers picked her up last week.

She checked the shelter's website of pet photos and determined that it was her dog.

This was Friday evening and the shelter was closed. Johnson was scheduled to run in a regional cross country meet for the WSU Shockers the next day in Oklahoma, so she had her friend Heath go in her place.

He took a copy of a photo to show the shelter's staff that it was Naomi.

"As I handed the picture of Naomi to the woman at the front desk, I saw Naomi being led out of the back hall by a gentleman on a leash," Heath said.

Instead of Naomi being led to Heath, it was being adopted to an El Dorado man.

"She runs up to me and I'm petting Naomi a little bit. And I didn't really know what to think. Then he says he'd just adopted the dog," Heath said.

Heath says the man had no interest in reasoning with him or looking at the photo. Shelter staff said they couldn't stop the adoption.

"Once legal ownership had been established after the three day holding period, the city could not make the new owner turn the dog back over to its original owner," said Don Henry, City of Wichita Environmental Services Manager.

"It just didn't make any sense to me. I didn't see how somebody could be so heartless that they could just take somebody else's dog. Somebody standing right there ready to claim the dog and they could just take it," Johnson said.

The El Dorado man refuses to budge and Johnson is considering legal action.

For positive pet identification, the City of Wichita advises having a microchip inserted in your pet or having it tattooed.

Meanwhile, Johnson can only hope the El Dorado family with the new husky will have a change of heart.
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