Monday, April 18, 2011
This dog was found wandering northbound on Post Road in Darien on Friday, and was spotted as far south as the exit 9 interchange of Interstate 95 in Stamford.
DARIEN -- Two days after finding a stray dog wandering along Post Road, Kristin Calve decided to take to Twitter in hopes of finding the dog's owner.
Calve, a real estate agent from Darien, had contacted animal control officials about a small, Yorkshire terrier named Bori that had no tags and no microchip. But Bori's owner hadn't come forward as of Sunday night., and Calve began to worry.
"I started to think `do I own this dog now," she said. That's when Calve posted a photo of the dog on her Twitter page, along with a plea for help.
The tweet, it turned out, paid off. Calve said the neighbor of Bori's owner, who lives in Stamford, saw the story, which had been posted online by the Darien News and The Advocate, and called Calve's cell phone number to claim the dog. At 9:55 a.m., Calve tweeted the good news. "Thanks to @StamAdvocate!" she tweeted. "Your story helped us find the dog's owners! I just dropped him off."
Calve was driving along Post Road on Friday when she saw the dog, which had no owner in site as it wandered north on Post Road near Hollow Tree Ridge Road.
Calve got out of her car and picked up the dog at the intersection of Post Road and Hampton Road at around 4 p.m. on Friday.
When she picked up the dog, she said she was approached by a woman who told her she had followed the dog from Stamford, near exit 9 on Interstate 95.
Calve took care of the dog until Monday morning, when the owner was alerted to the story and came forward, prompting Calve to drive to Stamford to drop the terrier off.
Source: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Tweets-story-help-reunite-lost-dog-with-owner-1341450.php
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