Zeus, sheltie

Owner Reunited With Dog After He Disappeared
Monday, December 26 2011, 11:54 PM EST

HUBER HEIGHTS -- It's a sound that has been missing from Tammy Shelton's home since Christmas, her dog Zeus barking.

"As you can see, he's like Mom's beside me, it's all right. and I'm like, Zeus is beside me, it's more than all right," said Shelton.

Sunday, some boys saw a person in a green van swoop Zeus out of the side lawn. We interviewed Tammy and she pleaded for the people to bring the dog back, no questions asked. The right person saw the report.

"Neighbors said, that lady was on the news... you better return that dog," said Shelton.

A woman showed up with Zeus, returning the dog but did not accept the reward.

"My son was here, so there was a knock at the door and she just informed him that, "here he is, he could have gotten run over." Well I really would have liked to thank her.... I still do. I don't really know, I don't know how the story goes but he's home, he's home," said Shelton.

Tammy says she'll be keeping a much closer eye on him, even if he's in the side yard. She's even considering installing a permanent microchip so she could always track him.

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HUBER HEIGHTS -- A local woman is extremely distraught and she is begging for thieves to return her best friend. Two kids saw someone steal her dog, and he's still missing.

"It's Christmas, just bring him back," said Tammy Shelton since a Grinch has taken all of Tammy Shelton's Christmas cheer. Her beloved dog, Zeus, was plucked from her yard, stolen in broad daylight on Christmas.

"We were delivering Christmas gifts to all my friends with this Santa outfit on," said Shelton.

She took the outfit off of Zeus around 2:30 and let him out in the side yard, as she always does.

"He goes and then he lays right on the cement," said Shelton.

When he wasn't there, she panicked and searched the whole neighborhood. Then neighborhood boys told her they saw people in a green van take zeus, even after they protested. She traveled to the humane society with no luck, so she called police.

"He took the police report he said I hate to tell you but this is the time of year. They want your money they want your reward. Even if someone had told them where that dog goes they want your money. But you know what they can ask me any amount of money, if they just bring him back... I would give it to them," said Shelton who says Zeus has a hard time moving around because of hip dysplasia. And with no teeth, can only eat certain foods. But mostly, he's only ever known one mom, Tammy. She's worried about what they would want with a 12 year old dog who's her best friend.

"Whatever you want, just bring him back," said Shelton.

She says if you know anything about the dog, she's urging you to contact her. No questions asked.

Belichick, puggle

Missing Dog Named ‘Belichick’ Is Reunited With Owner
November 8, 2011

BOSTON (CBS) – A dog named ‘Belichick’ that was stolen outside the Trader Joe’s on Boylston Street has been found.

Belichick the puggle was stolen from outside Trader Joe’s on Boylston Street in Boston.

Police say the 4-year-old puggle’s owner Craig Pentland had tied him up outside the store around 7 p.m. Monday and went inside for about 10 minutes.

When he came out, Belichick was gone.

Craig tells WBZ that Belichick made it home safe Tuesday evening.

Pentland told police that no one in the area reported seeing the dog being taken and a review of surveillance footage at area businesses did not turn up any sign of him.

The dog had a tag with his name on it and he is microchipped.

Pentland put up posters around the store and set up a Facebook page to try and find his dog.

Source: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/11/08/belichick-the-dog-stolen-from-boylston-street-trader-joes/

Bella, Great Dane

Bella, a lost Great Dane, found on Lake Huron ice reunited with owners
Elisha Anderson, Detroit Free Press Staff Writer
5:04 PM, Mar. 17, 2011

Bella, a Great Dane, was rescued off the ice of Lake Huron on Wednesday, March 16, and reunited with her owners the next day.

A 1 1/2 year old Great Dane found in Lake Huron was reunited with her owners this afternoon.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued the dog—named Bella— around 11 p.m. Wednesday night.

The family pet had been missing since early Tuesday morning when she ran from her house in Sarnia, Ontario. Shawn Byatt, 31, told the Free Press that he and his wife Emma Byatt, 29, had spent more than two days frantically looking for their 125-pound dog that stood just under three feet tall.

Bella was wearing a tag with her name, and it also included her owners’ address and phone number, but the tag broke off when Shawn Byatt tried to catch the dog as she took off. It cut his finger in the process, he said.

Shawn Byatt said he went through two tanks of gas and spent $50 making missing dog posters trying to track her down. He passed the posters out in his neighborhood, at pet supply stores, and on cars in parking lots, but nobody had seen her. He was hanging up a poster at a local coffee shop when his wife got the call their pet had been rescued.

“We couldn’t believe it,” he told the Free Press today. “We really didn’t think there was going to be a happy ending.”

Lucky for his family, crew members aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay spotted the dog as the ship was escorting a freighter through the ice. She was found about five miles off the Michigan coastline, two miles north of the Blue Water Bridge.

The captain parked the ship in the ice and deployed the ice rescue team, Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Justin Westmiller.

“We’ve rescued dogs in the past, but it hasn’t happened lately,” Westmiller said.

Bella was kept on the ship overnight and turned over to the St. Clair County Animal Control Office this morning, he said. She had redness in her paws from standing on the ice but was in good health.

“The dog would have been able to walk on the ice from the Sarnia side and literally walk across to the United States side,” Westmiller said.

The St. Clair County Animal Control Office hadn’t received any calls for the animal, so they called the Sarnia Animal Control Office, and the owners were located. They came to get her this afternoon.

“It never even occurred to us to look across the border,” Shawn Byatt said.

To Bella rescuers, Shawn Byatt wants to offer “a huge thank you.”

Source: http://www.freep.com/article/20110317/NEWS05/110317048/Lost-Great-Dane-found-Lake-Huron-ice-reunited-owners?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
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Manny, chocolate lab

Microchip helps reunite lost dog with family
Updated: Dec 17, 2010 10:58 PM CST

Manny was found injured and returned to his owners.

Avon - There was a happy reunion Friday night for an injured dog, rescued by complete strangers. A microchip was key to getting the dog back home.

The one-year-old, energetic chocolate lab was lost, then found and now, has been reunited with his rescuers.

"I had to come by and say 'thank you' and let you see Manny in a better condition," said the dog's owner, Courtney Tillery. "I also wanted to bring you a Christmas card to thank you."

Tillery's dog, Manny, had quite the 24-hour adventure. She was taking him on a walk Wednesday when he got loose.

"I think he saw another dog and went to go after them and he's a pretty strong dog, got right out of his collar and took off. That was the first time he's ever gotten out, you know, so it was definitely a shock," Tillery said.

As it turns out, Manny didn't get that far. Although he wandered for hours, he was discovered in a condominium complex, just one neighborhood over from Tillery's apartment. Scott Moulton, a dog lover himself, found Manny hurt and in need of help. He'd snagged his tooth on something outside.

"This dog comes up to me, friendly as can be, but bleeding," Moulton said. "My step-daughter and them were calling around to vets asking questions, 'What do I do?' Well, they said, 'Bring the dog in'."

Dr. Brian Mehringer of Avon Veterinary Clinic took action, performed surgery, and removed Manny's tooth. The dog was healthy, but still not home.

"At that point, we said, 'Hey look, we're going to do the standard thing. We're going to scan for a microchip, see if it has an owner.' Well, we found a microchip," Dr. Mehringer said.

That chip eventually led to Courtney Tillery and a heartfelt homecoming.

"If he wasn't microchipped, it would have been days, weeks, if ever that I would have found him," Tillery said.

And if not for Scott Moulton and his family, she says, the reunion may not have happened either.

"I really appreciate everything you've done for him and my family. You're definitely Christmas angels," she said.

Source: http://www.wthr.com/story/13707023/microchip-helps-reunite-lost-dog-with-owners
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Turbo, doberman

Couple alerted by dolphins about tired dog tells story
By Paul Gessler
Feb 25, 2011

MARCO ISLAND: The story of Turbo, the Doberman who was saved by dolphins, has picked up national attention. Friday, the couple who heard the dolphins and jumped in the water to pull Turbo from the canal spoke out.

It's believed that the determined Doberman spent 15 hours in the canal. And the Dalessandros are part of the reason he survived.

"I think he was probably in the water probably much of the night," said Audrey Dalessandro.

"The dog was exhausted," added Sam Dalessandro.

Sam said on Monday morning, he was loading up his boat when he heard the dolphins.

"They were really putting up a raucous, almost beaching themselves on the sandbar over there," he said. "If it wasn't for the dolphin, I would have never seen the dog."

He called 9-1-1 as his wife got the ladder.

"When I got down into the water, the dog came right over to me and stayed by my leg the whole time," Audrey said.

Firefighters arrived and helped lift him out of the cold water.

"When we finally got the dog up on shore, the dog just laid down. The dog was exhausted," Sam said.

Minutes later, he was reunited with mom Cindy Burnett.

"The lady said, 'No, the dolphin saved him,'" Burnett described.

But by then, the dolphin had left.

"If it wasn't for that dolphin, that dog would be in doggie heaven right now because we would have never seen it," Sam said.




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Jackie, Jack Russell

'Rovers return' - stolen dog found


A 77-year-old man last night was happily reunited with his beloved Jack Russell after the dog was stolen from his home the previous day.

The resident found the dog, called Jackie, safe and well tied to his front door handle at around 10pm last night (Thursday 7th January) after he heard the dog barking outside.

Det Con Carol Beveridge, who is leading the robbery investigation, said the resident contacted Police to say that he was ‘over the moon’ that his dog had been returned.

Det Con Beveridge said it was fantastic the dog and owner had been reunited. "Maybe press appeals for the return of the dog during the afternoon may have pricked the conscience of the culprits," she said.

The dog was stolen after two men forced their way into the resident’s home in Crown Road, Sutton, on Wednesday 6th January between 7.30-8.00pm.

The men accused the resident of damaging one of their vehicles in a collision a few weeks earlier. But the resident explained that he wasn’t the man they were looking for because he hadn’t been involved in a road accident. He said he could prove his identity and that they had got the wrong person.

Police believe it was a case of mistaken identity. The two intruders left, but took the dog with them, in the direction of Collingwood Road.

Both suspects had London accents. One suspect was described as a white man, aged between 25-30. He was wearing a black anorak. The other suspect was described as a black man, who was wearing a brown top.

The Police investigation is continuing.

Source: http://cms.met.police.uk/met/boroughs/sutton/04how_are_we_doing/news/rovers_return_stolen_dog_found

Max, a lab

City workers free trapped dog from sewer pipe
Scared, sickly mutt named Max safely returned to his Minnesota owner
Wed July 11, 2007

MANKATO, Minn. - The sound of barking underneath a street Tuesday led a team of city workers to a dog trapped in a narrow culvert — and you might say they used a backward approach to rescue the mutt.

Max, a 13-year-old Labrador retriever, gets a little attention from his owners, John and Kathy Kachelmyer of rural Mankato, Minn., Wednesday after his recsue.

The sickly, scared dog was about 50 feet from the nearest entry point, but since the culvert was just 15 inches in diameter, the workers couldn't fit into it themselves. Not even offers of food could draw out the dog.

"He was exhausted," said Tony Talamantez, a public works foreman.

Then Talamantez and his colleagues had an idea. They rigged up a long video camera used to inspect drain pipes, and approached the dog from the back. They used the camera to nudge the dog forward until he reached an entry point big enough for a person to pull him out.

The camera recorded the rescue, showing the dog scampering ahead in fits and starts as the camera pokes him in the rear end.

Found after missing for a day

The dog wore no tags, only a worn collar. But Julia Gosen, animal control officer for the city, said the dog's owner saw accounts of the rescue in local media and claimed him Wednesday morning.

The owner "had no idea" how the dog ended up in the drain, Gosen said. "He said he'd gone missing from their house about a day earlier."

City workers weren't sure how the dog, a 13-year-old lab named Max, got into the sewer. They said cats, raccoons and ducks often end up in storm sewers, but Talamantez said it was the first time he'd helped rescue a dog in his 25 years with the city.

"Max got very excited when he saw his owner," Gosen said.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19719350/#story

Beau, German Shepherd

Nice story, told by the folks that found Beau. Enjoy!

Beau was Lost, AND FOUND!!!

Posted by Laurie and Alan

Monday, June 04, 2007

Gosh, what a weekend we had!

Alan was at an Elder Retreat until Saturday evening. While I was having my dinner in the library I noticed what I thought was a very large Coyote just below the window. I got up to see and noticed it wasn't a Coyote but a German Shepard, who wanted in at our front door, right now!

"Beau"

I went out to try and get him and see if he had a collar with a name tag. I finally found him out back trying to get into our conservatory doors. While Ceddie and Wesley barked and carried on inside, he didn't care, he wanted refuge, immediately! He was totally and completely lost and confused.

I was able to get him into the garage. As I looked him over I noticed he was a very well trained boy that was older (maybe 7-9 years I thought), I noticed that he had a weakness in his back legs. He had a blue collar, --but no tags! This was an elderly dog who was very lost and shaken up because of it. He just wanted to go home.

I tried to call Alan on his cell but because he was in the pass on his way home there was no reception. All I could do was to leave a message telling him to NOT open the garage door, otherwise he'd let the German Shepard out!

Unable to get a hold of Alan I went and got a garden chair and constructed a large sign that said, "Alan, do not open garage door!" I taped it on the chair and set in the middle of the driveway at the entrance, --he was sure to notice that!!!

I finally got a call from Alan, he was only 30 minutes away from home! I told him about the dog --we were on a mission to get this dog back home to his loved ones!

We called Vets around our area to find out which ones were open to scan for a microchip. We found one in Kirkland, an emergency care hospital. It was about 10pm by now. We headed out to the hospital with the Shepard, they scanned him --no chip... we were sick, how were we going to get this boy home?

The hospital gave us several phone numbers where we could leave him, the pound was one of them. I had heard that they euthanize after 3 days, NO WAY was he going there! PAWS was the only choice.

There was nothing more we could do... I cried that night. I felt so bad for this older doggie boy who was so visibly upset. The next morning Alan took him for a walk in our neighborhood, maybe he lived here... No, it was obvious he didn't.

We made color signs the next morning and would post them on our way to church. Before church I went out to the garage and laid my hands on him and prayed.

"Father", I prayed, "please help us find this doggie boys parents." I meant every word.

We posted the "Found Dog" signs along with all the other lost dog signs on the poles. We had made the decision to take him to PAWS, a "no kill" animal shelter after church. Our hearts were very heavy to say the least. I jumped out to tape our sign on yet another stop sign pole and glanced up...

"Lost Dog!" German Shepard

9 years old

Blue collar

"Beau"

Please call.......

I shouted to Alan as I was ripping the lost dog sign down! "I think this is the dog!" We stopped in the middle of the road and put on our flashers as he made the call. I could hear the woman on the other line screaming, "they found him!" She was crying and screaming with joy!

I can't describe the sense of utter relief that flooded my body that moment as I said a thank you to my Heavenly Father.

We turned around and headed back to our home to get Beau and take him home!

When we arrived the family came running out to greet their long lost dog and to thank us with hugs and tears. They told us that Beau had never left his property before. He just recently had had hip surgery and that they had called the very same Vet Hospital we had taken him to. But we failed to leave a number and the Vet Tech forgot to ask for one.

The owner had spent the night in the woods behind their home calling and looking for him because they thought that he'd been injured. And they hadn't slept at all that night. They posted their color signs, hoping for the call.

What a celebration we had in their front yard with Beau smiling from ear to ear!

As I was handing the lost and found signs to the owner I said, "I don't know if you folks are Christians but I've been praying for this dog."

The owner looked at me with a big smile and a laugh, non verbally I knew he was saying "thanks" in his own way.

We drove off with grateful hearts, a renewed faith in the power of prayer and the knowledge that yes, our Heavenly Father loves and cares even for our beloved pets!

Source: http://fromthewoodlands.blogspot.com/2007/06/lost-and-found-beau-gosh-what-weekend.html