Steve Adamson - Source: KSBY News
Updated: Apr 4, 2011 9:48 PM
Last Thursday when Janine Elich went to visit her daughter in Grover Beach, something happened she wasn't expecting. Her dog jumped out of the car while it was parked in a driveway. The window was down far enough whereas the dog was able to jump out. While inside her daughter's home, the dog pulled a disappearing act.
Soon the search was on, as signs went up in the Grover Beach neighborhood in the vicinity of 4th Street and Trouville Ave. The weekend came and went and no signs of "Sandy," the six year old Chihuahua-Terrier mix that Elich has had since she was a puppy.
Then this morning, something totally unexpected happened. At around 8:15am, Sandy came prancing through the doors of the Apple Farm restaurant in San Luis Obispo....about 20 miles from where she jumped out of the car back in Grover.
Aubree Charlesworth was the hostess working this morning when it happened. "Well, I was standing right outside the door and I was just getting some fresh air because it was a bit hot in there, so I turned and I went back inside and as I turned around to see if there were any customers waiting, the dog was just standing there right behind me."
After checking out the dog's tags, she called the number on them and spoke to the veterinarian's office where the tags came from. They gave her Janine's number and she called her. The story gets more interesting because of what happened next.
"And I call her up on the phone and I said I have your dog and she asks where we are and I told her we're at the Apple Farm and Janine says, well I work there....And I say who's this? And then Janine's daughter Kaylee came out and said that's my mom's dog!"
Turns out, that the dog found her way to the place where her owner worked. Her daughter works there too and just happened to be working when the dog arrived. It all led to a happy reunion once Elich made it in for her shift.
Elich said, "She's a hound dog, she found her way...She didn't want to give up the friendship, that's for sure. She came looking for me." Elich said the dog had been to the Apple Farm before, but only briefly on a couple of occasions when she stopped in when she wasn't working.
A happy ending to a story that could have turned out much different.
"Sandy was a bit weathered from the four-day, 20 mile journey. About a hundred ticks had to be pulled off her and she lost a couple of pounds. Still, all things considered, in pretty good shape and in very happy spirits to be reunited with her owner again. Elich was planning on bringing Sandy to her vet for a check up to make sure all else was ok with her.
Source: http://www.ksby.com/news/happy-reunion-dog-missing-since-last-week-shows-up-at-owner-s-work-place-today-20-miles-away/
Video: http://www.ksby.com/player/?video_id=10319
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