Sep 19, 2011
DENVER - If your dog went missing for more than two years, you might give up hope, thinking the dog would never be found. You probably wouldn't expect it to show up in a neighborhood more than 700 miles from home.
Leia disappeared from her home during a monsoon rain in El Paso, Texas in June 2009.
This weekend, more than two years later, she showed up in Denver neighborhood.
Annmarie Anderson found Leia tied up near her home. She looked at her rabies tags and noticed it had an El Paso phone number on it.
Within 10 minutes, she had made contact with the owner who said she's still been putting up posters through this past June.
Anderson says Leia was hungry and needed a bath, but is otherwise doing just fine.
"We can only guess what this dog has been through. But the fact she has the original collar and it's tattered and torn, I have to guess that she walked all this way," Anderson said.
The owners were ecstatic to hear Leia had been found. They're coming from El Paso this Friday to bring her home.
"A lot of emotions running through the family. We're just excited and happy that she's safe and that we're going get her back. She's coming home. We're thrilled. It's overwhelming. It's kind of hard to put into words," Leia's owner, Alma Saldana, said.
Source: http://www.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=219992
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