By KGNS News
February 22, 2011
New tonight at ten, a Laredo family is excited to be re-united with their dog after five days of him going missing. The story of how he was found is one of a guess and a little good luck. Our Ryan Bailey has more.
"He's trained but he jumped off and by the time my husband got back he was gone and when he went and claimed it, the people said they had seen somebody take it."
Employees at an O'Reilly Auto Parts store told Martinez they had seen the vehicle pull away. Armed with a little info, Martinez was able to deduce the general vicinity where the dog may be. He and his wife searched on Saturday but came up empty, until he went back today.
"Luckily he went again today and sure enough that hunch was right."
The father was able to find bandit on a ranch, but not everything was the same on the family's prized dog. In an effort to change his appearance the men had chopped off the dog's tail.
"When my husband said that he had found him, he told me what they had done. Of course we were heartbroken because that was the feature we liked, that he had his tail."
Tail or not, the Martinez kids are very happy to have their bandit back.
"I was worried that if we didn't get him back I would never see him again."
"Maybe they could have hurt him with animal cruelty like they did with his tail. I’m just happy he's back."
And it took them no time to put him to back to work, learning new tricks.
"We're training him to do Frisbee."
Ryan Bailey, Laredo’s pro 8 news.
The Martinez family has filed a police report in this matter and they have been told that L.P.D. does take these cases very seriously. According to the family, Police say they have seen a rise in pet thefts recently and they have a unit dedicated to investigating these kinds of cases. The family is planning on taking the blue heeler to the vet tomorrow to make sure he is still healthy, as well as getting micro chips inserted in both their dogs.
Source: http://www.pro8news.com/news/Family-Finds-Lost-Dog-Missing-its-Tail-116709169.html
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