Buddy

Tennessee Man Reunited With Dog In Kentucky
Reporter: Rachel Markin
Updated: 1:14 AM Feb 26, 2012

It happened after a Tennessee man traveled to Bowling Green to reunite with his dog after 1 year of separation.

Animal Rescue Corps found the dog with 95 others at the Grave's County raid, a story we've been following closely.

"It was a magical thing, and we were all crying," says Lorri Hare.

Lorri Hare's eyes are still tearing up at the thought of Andy Winn reuniting with his beloved dog, Buddy.

"From the way the owner and the dog were reacting, you knew before you saw the photos that was his dog, and the dog knew that was his owner," says Hare.

Hare runs the Bowling Green Humane Society and helped rescue the 96 dogs from the deplorable conditions at a supposed Grave's County "animal rescue" organization.

"We are under the assumption that several were stolen, several had maybe ended up in shelters," says Hare.

"I think someone stole them, exactly," says Andy Winn.

Winn, who traveled to Bowling Green's Humane Society from Clarksville, Tennessee to retrieve his long-lost pet, says Buddy and another one of his dogs named Lucy were taken from his property.

"I remember seeing a white truck passing me by and thinking it didn't see quite right, and than one or two days later when my dogs still weren't found I knew someone had taken them," says Winn.

The Tennessean first believed Buddy was one of the rescued animals when he watched a local news channel's video of the dogs.

Winn says a dark spot around the dog's eyes is what identified him as the "one".

"He was in worse condition than when I last had him..scratches..scars..bruises," says Winn.

Unfortunately Lucy is still no-where to be found and Winn worries that because she was older, she may not have made it through the harsh conditions in Grave's county.

Lisa Henderson at the Humane Society says it's heartbreaking to think some of the dogs that were abused and lost their lives at the Grave's county "rescue organization" might have been taken from loving homes.

"Its so sad because obviously these dogs have families who are looking for them and missing them and why someone would steal someone else dog its just heartbreaking to think of the dogs going through that and owners also," says Henderson.

Two of the 26 dogs rescued dogs brought to Bowling Green's Humane Society have been retrieved by their original owner. The organization says anyone who suspects their dog might have been stolen can contact Animal Rescue Corps for more information.



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