Sunshine, a yorkie mix

"I don't know how she got to Miami" ? The mystery of how the brown and silver toy dog ended up several states away remains unsolved? It doesn't seem like much of a mystery to me.


Texas woman, missing dog reunite in Miami-Dade
BY Micaela Hood
Tue, Aug. 18, 2009

Jodi Head thought her best friend, Sunshine -- a Yorkie mix -- was gone for good from her Texas home.But thanks to a good Samaritan and a microchip, she and her pooch were reunited Monday at Miami International Airport -- after a separation of nearly two months and more than 1,000 miles.

"I don't know how she got to Miami,'' said Head, 77, a courier for a dermatology lab.

Like a scene out of Lassie, Sunshine wagged her tail and licked her owner's face during the reunion.

The mystery of how the brown and silver toy dog ended up several states away remains unsolved.

Sunshine -- who as a baby was rescued from a puppy mill by the Texas SPCA -- was found Aug. 10 by Micha Porat and his friend, Cassie Roth, near the corner of Biscayne Boulevard and Seventh Street.

"She was hardly moving and didn't want to eat anything,'' said Porat, 28, a Miami Beach club promoter. "I was getting worried.''

He took the dog to South Beach Animal Hospital, where vets found Sunshine's identifying microchip.

Outside the airport, Head thanked Porat and gave him $200 -- half of which he had spent on getting the proper papers for Sunshine to fly.

"He's my angel,'' Head said.

Head said neighbors in her Dallas complex recently hosted visitors from Florida, and suspects they may have had a hand in Sunshine's disappearance.

She and Sunshine headed home Monday, where a welcome party awaits.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1190674.html
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