A lesson that this story illustrates is to check out pet adoption events if a few weeks pass and your lost dog hasn't been recovered. Thank goodness this family did that -- not as part of any organized plan to find their, but by sheer chance because they were in a shopping center where one of the stores was a PetSmart. Enjoy the story.
Good news: Family and dog reunited
By Maura Grunlund, Staten Island Advance
Monday, November 17, 2008
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A chance visit to PetSmart in Port Richmond on an adoption day reunited a family with their missing dog. Pat Battle of Tompkinsville e-mailed the Advance to let readers know of the joyous reunion.
The episode began in August when Jamie, a 9 year old female Labrador mix, escaped from the West Brighton yard of owners John Mulvey, wife Colleen and their children Bridget, 9, and Casey, 3. Mulvey is owner of Bridget's Public House, West Brighton, named for his daughter.
Jamie had been in the doghouse in the back yard when an rainstorm that wasn't forecast pelted Staten Island.
"The dog is afraid of thunder and lightning, she got scared and somehow slipped out from under the fence," Mulvey said.
The family searched for her far and wide and posted a notice on www.silive.com. Then several weeks later Mulvey's wife and daughters happened to be shopping near the PetSmart store. Bridget asked if she could look at the dogs available for adoption in case Jamie was one of them.
"Sure enough, there was Jamie sitting under the table," Mulvey said. "Pretty much it was my daughter Bridget that wound up finding her."
Meanwhile, Mrs. Battle and her husband Frank had lost a dog in August and happened to be checking dogs available for adoption at the same time. Mrs. Battle recalls Mrs. Mulvey calling out Jamie's name and the dog walking towards her owners.
The dog initially was found by a woman who discovered Jamie injured from having been hit by a car on Taylor Street in West Brighton. She told Mike Masera, who lives in the neighborhood and was a PLUTO volunteer, about finding the dog. The dog already had been taken by Animal Care and Control and put in a shelter in Brooklyn. Masera contacted Lisa Rooney, president of Pet Lovers United Together As One (PLUTO) rescue who arranged for the dog to recuperate in foster care with Joanne and Tony Raimondi of Grasmere.
Source - the Staten Island Avance
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