Lucky, a black lab mix

Such a simple story, and so short compared to so many lost dogs found stories. But this picture just melts your heart, doesn't it? Enjoy the story.

Lucky the dog reunited with owner
By Robert A Cronkleton
The Kansas City Star

Lucky, it turns out, is one aptly named dog.
The black Lab mix returned home late Monday, two days after he had the misfortune of being inside owner Shane Dahlke’s Chevy Tahoe when it was stolen from outside a Bonner Springs convenience store.

“I have been apologizing to him constantly,” Shane Dahlke says after being reunited with his dog, Lucky, who was in an SUV that was stolen. The dog was missing for two days.

On Tuesday, thanks to some Good Samaritans, Lucky rested on a dog bed while Dahlke wished his dog could explain how he ended up in Grandview.


Dahlke said he’d left his SUV running while he popped into the convenience store. “It was going to be kind of an in-and-out thing,” he said. But when he came out, the vehicle and Lucky were gone.


“I didn’t know how to deal with myself because I felt I was the one (responsible),” Dahlke said. “And I have been apologizing to him constantly.”


He spent two days looking for Lucky before finding a phone message waiting for him Monday night. From Grandview — 35 miles from the convenience store.

Megan Howell said she and her 9-year-old daughter, Jillianne Joy-Taylor, had seen the dog near 140th Street and U.S. 71, pacing the fence line at a school near their home. But the dog wouldn’t come when they called. Eventually, he wandered over, and Jillianne coaxed him inside. They called the number on its tags, and Dahlke and Lucky were reunited a few hours later.


“It was really nice — just something special that you don’t get to see all the time,” Howell said. “He was really ecstatic to see the dog, and the dog was very happy to see him.”


Tonganoxie police recovered the Tahoe on Tuesday afternoon after a brief chase when two people inside failed to pay for gas and drove off. They were taken into custody.


In the end, Dahlke said, both he and his dog are lucky: “Lucky that he didn’t get hit and lucky I got him back.”

Source: http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/1130983.html
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