Mikey, a Yorkshire Terrier

It sounds like the guy that found the dog cornered him at the top of some stairs, and also it seems that what he used as a lure to get him to come down was peanuts!

Bronx nurse reunited with lost dog
By Dorian Block And Leo Standora, Daily News Staff Writers
Thursday, November 1st 2007, 4:00 AM

Susan Roberti is reunited with lost dog Mikey.

Jason Austin and Mary Ford flank Mikey & Susan, his mom

Bronx nurse Susan Roberti got a wonderful Halloween treat Tuesday. Her precious Mikey - a cute-as-a-button Yorkie that vanished from her yard nearly three weeks ago - was found safe and sound. Now Mikey's rescuers are going to Disney World - or at least to Florida - as a reward.

"I'm amazed, just speechless," Roberti, 34, said as she and Mikey were reunited at Jacobi Medical Center.
"He almost jumped out of the car," she said. "He's been licking my face and kissing me so much I almost started crying."

"I prayed Mikey would be my Halloween treat, and here he is," she said, hugging her beloved pooch. The happy ending to this slightly shaggy-dog story unfolded on Young Ave. in the Bronx, a few blocks from Roberti's home, Tuesday afternoon.

Jason Austin of New Rochelle was working on the railing outside the house of longtime friend Mary Ford when he spotted Mikey "running up and down the street" past scads of "missing" posters with his picture on telephone poles.

"He's a cute dog, he was alone and he looked like someone owned him," said Austin. He chased Mikey up a staircase outside a house and lured him down with peanuts.

Ford recognized Mikey from a poster she saw in a neighborhood laundermat, so she and Austin took the dog there, got the phone number and called Roberti. Roberti gave Austin and Ford $1,000 each, reward money that had been donated by "so many wonderful people" in the neighborhood. She also gave $1,000 to Christine Bagli, a Young Avenue resident who also spotted Mikey but couldn't catch him. Roberti said it's up to Austin to decide when he'd like to take the Florida trip. Both Austin and Ford said they were unaware there was a reward for Mikey.

"The big bonus is that she got her dog back and she was so elated," Austin said. A vet checked Mikey out and said he lost little of his 5 pounds of weight, and although his black-and-tan fur was a tad scruffy, all he really needed was a little rest and lots of love.

When Mikey vanished, Roberti had returned the Halloween toys and a costume she bought for him.
So Tuesday, she went to the store to buy them back.

Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/01/2007-11-01_bronx_nurse_reunited_with_lost_dog.html
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