By Ron Fonger, The Flint Journal
March 07, 2013
GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- Matt McMichael had almost given up looking for his missing dog Morgan, which slipped out of her backyard last Independence Day and hadn't been seen since.
Morgan, a 9-year-old Labrador-Rottweiler, licks the face of owner Matt McMichael of Gaines Township as son Conner, 8, watches at the Genesee County Animal Control shelter today, March 7.
But after searching the streets around his Gaines Township home, taping up flyers and searching the Internet, McMichael found her Thursday, March 7, in the same place he adopted her nine years ago:
The county Animal Control shelter.
"We looked all summer and pretty much had all but given up," McMichael said when he claimed Morgan.
McMichael came to the shelter after his wife spotted Morgan on the Facebook page of the Genesee County Animals In Need Of Homes and Rescues.
Shelter workers said Morgan was turned in by a man who found her in the Linden area. The female Labrador-Rottweiller mix was turned over to the shelter Feb. 23, but employees had no further details about when she had first been found or how the man found her.
McMichael said Morgan was in good shape, given her long absence. He knew she was his dog by the way she shook her head at him from a holding cage at the shelter -- near another cage where he found and adopted her when she was a puppy.
McMichael said the dog may have been frightened by July 4 fireworks on the night she slipped away from home.
The family never adopted another dog after she turned up missing.
"It's good not to give up," he said. "We've still got her bowls and toys."
Source: http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2013/03/eight-month_search_ends_as_gai.html
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