Penny Eims, Dog News Examiner
January 11, 2012
Fruitport Township, MI - Call it what you will...fate, destiny, devine intervention...some things are just meant to be.
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| Sadie, 13, receives oxygen from Fruitport Township firefighter Chris Anderson after being removed from a house fire Monday. Fire department personnel responded to a house fire at 2584 E. Pontaluna shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Monday. Sara Puente and her daughter Gabrielle Puente were home at the time and escaped without injury, as did Sadie, another dog and two cats |
Back in November, 13 yr-old Sadie wandered away from her home with the Tejchma family.
The senior dog is mostly blind, hard of hearing and doesn't get around quite the way that she used to, but somehow she managed to travel several miles away from her family's home.
The Tejchma family searched high and low for their missing dog, but their efforts weren't successful. As the days turned into weeks - their hope for finding Sadie alive faded.
Despite the family's failed attempts to locate their senior dog, she was alive and well.
A woman named Sara Puente had discovered the wayward dog just after Thanksgiving - she told WZZM news that the dog "looked miserable", so she took her home.
Since Sadie was not wearing any type of identification, Puente was unable to locate her true family.
Fast forward to this past Monday when the Puente family was on the news following a fire at their home.
As fate would have it, a member of the Tejchma family was watching the report about the Puente family's house fire and low and behold, Sadie herself was featured in the news clip.
Sadie's original family spotted the dog being administered oxygen on the news cast and they immediately recognized her as their own.
The Tejchma family contacted the fire department for help - letting them know that the dog who had been on television was their family pet - a dog who they had owned since Sadie was just six weeks of age.
The fire department reached out to the Puente family to let them know.
Sadie's guardian, Marie Tejchma, feared that Puente might not want to turn Sadie back over to her.
But Puente understood the bond between a dog and their person, and she was more than happy to reunite Sadie with the family who loved, and missed her.
Sadie created a bond between the two families who now consider each other friends.
In fact, Sadie's family may even take in the Puente's Dachshund temporarily while they search for a new place to live following the devasting fire.
It is one of those rare stories where everything just seems to work out the way that it is supposed to.
Source: http://www.examiner.com/dogs-in-national/lost-dog-reunited-with-owner-following-news-coverage-of-a-house-fire
Another version of the story is at: http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/01/fruitport_township_fire_reunit.html
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