Anna, Shetland Sheepdog

Dog found 500 miles away reunited with owner in time for Christmas
16 December 2013

A seven-year-old Shetland Sheepdog has been reunited with her owner after she was found over 500 miles away from home.

Anna was reported missing by breeder Leanda Loosemore in May after disappearing from her kennel near Cupar.

After alerting the police and posting appeals on social networking sites, Leanda had give up hope of finding her beloved pet.

But a phone call last month from the council in Ashford, Kent made sure that the prize-winning show dog was back home in time for Christmas.

Leanda said: "She was behind a locked and bolted door. Anna is quite a cuddly, lazy wee thing and there is no way she would have climbed out anywhere.

"So I knew she had been stolen."

At that point Leanda had resigned herself to thinking she would never see Anna again - until she was contacted out of the blue.

She added: "They said we've had one of your dogs handed. I immediately thought it was a puppy we had sold and maybe the owners hadn't transferred the micro chip details."

Anna the Shetland Sheepdog found 500 miles away from home. Reunited with owner Leanda Loosemore.

But when the caller described the dog to Leanda, she was delighted to discover Anna had been found and would soon be on her way home.

Leanda said: "If she wasn't microchipped we would never have got her back - I doubt the people in Kent would have seen her pictures on Facebook.

"It's brilliant to have her back. It's like a real life lassie come home."

Source: http://news.stv.tv/tayside/257077-anna-the-shetland-sheepdog-reunited-with-owner-leanda-loosemore/

Max, lhasa apso

Dog reunited with family after going missing for six months
Two-year-old dog reunited with owners aftter Scottish SPCA checked microchip.
22 July 2011

Max: Home again after six months. Pic: © Scottish SPCA

A dog that went missing for six months has been reunited with its owners.

Max, a two-year-old Lhasa apso was taken to the Scottish SPCA's Glasgow animal rescue and rehoming centre after being found as a stray in the Tollcross area of the city.

Centre assistant Manager Anna O'Donnell said, "Thankfully Max had a microchip so we were able to contact his owners straight away.

"His family were delighted to hear he had been found after such a long time. They collected him immediately and Max was very excited to see them again.

"Someone had probably taken him in when he first went missing as he is not underweight.

"However, his coat is badly matted so it's possible he was living rough for a while before he was picked up by the dog warden.

"This highlights the benefits of microchipping your pets as without one it is unlikely Max would have been returned to his owners."

Source: http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-central/263381-dog-reunited-with-family-after-going-missing-for-six-months/

Noel, yellow lab

Dog finds her way back home after 6 months
Dann Cuellar
Wednesday, February 02, 2011


SOUTH PHILADELPHIA - February 2, 2011 (WPVI) -- It's a story Hollywood could not have scripted any better and this one has a happy ending.

Noel, resting at home, where she showed up as suddenly as she disappeared, six months later

Noel is a 10-year-old yellow Labrador Retriever. Her best friend is 11-year-old Toby, the Bernese Mountain Dog,.

They've been friends ever since Toby and his owner Raymond Godfrey of South Philadelphia stumbled upon Noel 7 years ago; she was abandoned under the Walt Whitman Bridge.

"She was very elusive, she went up to Toby...they started talking, what dogs talk about, I don't know what they talk about," Godfrey said.

Since then, the dogs did everything together. They were inseparable.

Then last summer, Toby was stricken with cancer. Last August 2nd, Godfrey was taking Toby to the vet and inadvertently left the front door of his row home partially open.

"And [Noel] ran looking for us, thinking we were going somewhere. I wouldn't normally go without her. I was taking him to the vet and she didn't know this," Godfrey said.

Godfrey put out hundreds of lost dog leaflets all over South Philadelphia.

He went on the internet and recruited dog rescue groups and others to help.

Many did, including Governor Ed Rendell who gets his hair cut by Godfrey, but it was to no avail.

But then at 12:27 Wednesday morning, 6 months to the day, Godfrey and his wife were asleep in bed when they heard a dog howling outside.

"We rushed downstairs, hurried to open the door, Toby walked out with me, [Noel] saw him, ran in the door and that was it," Godfrey said.

Noel had lost about 30 pounds, but otherwise appeared to be OK.

Through it all, Godfrey says he never lost faith that he would see Noel again.

"Faith. Got to have faith and what you believe in and hopefully, you'll know that your animal will come back," Godfrey said.

And Toby never gave up hope either.

So after 6 months, Noel and Toby, two old friends, essentially joined at the hip, are finally reunited again to enjoy what in dog years are the golden years of their lives.

It is a story of hope, faith and a bond between a dog and his family that led to a remarkable happy ending.



Source: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=7936464

Fred, bassett hound

Microchip helps reunite dog with its owners
By David Olson, the Press-Enterprise
Monday, June 11, 2007

Nearly six months after Fred the basset hound disappeared from a Moreno Valley family's former home in Arizona, the dog will come home in style: on a private jet to Palm Springs.

Fred, a basset hound that disappeared from his family's home in Paulden, Ariz., will be returned to the family in Moreno Valley.

Tammie Gomez, 30, and her children, Julia, 9, and Jonah, 7, will greet Fred at Palm Springs International Airport on Tuesday, six days after the dog wandered into the parking lot of the Northern Arizona Second Chance Center for Animals near Flagstaff, Ariz.

A veterinarian at the center is a pilot and will whisk Fred to Palm Springs. Shelter staff found the Gomez family through an identification microchip implanted in Fred's neck.

"It was just chaos in the house," Tammie Gomez said of when they discovered that Fred had been found Thursday. "Everyone was screaming and crying. It's like we won the lottery."

The Gomez family last saw Fred in December, when they left Paulden, Ariz., to haul some of their belongings to Moreno Valley. They left Fred in a fenced dog run with a golden retriever and asked a neighbor to take care of them.

When the family returned two weeks later, Fred was gone. They don't know how he got out. The golden retriever was still in the dog run, and the gate was closed.

As the weeks passed, Gomez told Julia and Jonah that Fred was probably "living the good life on someone's couch." But, privately, she believed that Fred had probably been killed by one of the wild animals that inhabit the countryside near Paulden.

Then, on Thursday, Lyn Pierce, office manager of the shelter, called Gomez to tell her that Fred had walked into the shelter parking lot. It's unclear whether someone had dropped him off there earlier, Pierce said.

"She was speechless," Pierce said. "She kept having to stop the conversation. She didn't believe we had found her dog."

When Gomez hung up the phone, she tearfully told Julia and Jonah the good news.

The center veterinarian, Dr. Paul Fink, is certain that Fred did not walk the nearly 80 miles of mountainous terrain from Paulden to Flagstaff. He was healthy when he arrived at the center, and the bottoms of his paws are not scraped-up, Fink said.

No one knows what Fred has been doing for the past six months. Gomez believes someone must have picked him up, because his collar -- which held his dog tags -- was gone.

The Gomezes had lived in Riverside before they moved to Arizona two years ago. They had the microchip installed in Fred's neck about seven years ago, after they adopted him from the Riverside County animal shelter.

Gomez said she probably wouldn't have ever seen Fred again were it not for the microchip.

"I wish I could microchip my kids," she said.

Source: http://www.pe.com/localnews/riverside/stories/PE_News_Local_D_lostdog11.3ea8afc.html

Tabitha, a huskey

Dog Recovered
Missing Fort Wayne Siberian Husky Found After Six Months

 Joyce McGiffin said she knew that huskies were notorious for being runners, but was surprised when she discovered that her daughter's 18-month-old Tabitha had managed to escape a seven foot chain link fence with gates closed. Most alarming was the discovery of the dog's identification tags lying in the grass. The S-hook appeared to have been pried open.

"We were never sure what had really happened, but I wasn't going to stop searching for Tabi," said Joyce. For six months Joyce visited Animal Care & Control to search the kennels for Tabitha.

"My family thought it was becoming too much for me and suggested I stop going to the shelter, but I just couldn't, she said.

Tabitha was given a microchip as a puppy, which is a great back-up system to identification tags. And, that's exactly how our department was able to make a positive match when Tabitha was finally found and brought to our shelter on the afternoon of June 18, 2007.

We scanned the husky and located the microchip, but discovered upon calling the number that the phone number for the daughter's home had been changed.

As luck has it, McGiffin just happened to stop by as part of her routine check.

A tearful Joyce called her family from our lobby to tell them that Tabitha had been found and would be coming home at last.

Source:  http://www.cityoffortwayne.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1243&Itemid=39#up

Buck, golden retriever

In this story, the family lost their dog while on a family trip, and they delayed leaving for a couple of long hard days before they felt they had to move on. Those couple of days were enough for the residents of the area to remember, when the dog re-appeared from seemingly nowhere, six months later.

The Real 'Homeward Bound': Dog Found After Missing for 6 Months
Friday, February 06, 2009

HELENA, Mont. — A 7-year-old golden retriever named Buck, startled by a train whistle last summer and lost for six months in north-central Montana, is back home in Washington state thanks to the efforts of several Chester residents.

"I've never had a miracle happen to me, so I don't really know what to think," said Kim Halter of Bonney Lake, Wash. Halter said she, her husband and two of their sons were on a family trip to Montana in August when they stopped at a rest stop along U.S. Highway 2 in the small town of Chester.

"The dog was normally never on a leash. Big mistake," Halter said Thursday. "But he was always next to my son. He never left his side, so we never really had a problem."

"We were under the trestle when the horn blew. When Buck heard the whistle, he took off like a shot. None of us even saw him." Halter said Maxine Woods, who lives across the highway, was waving her arms and trying to tell them that their dog ran away.

"He just basically disappeared," Woods said Friday. "He was just going faster than any dog I've seen run." Woods joined the search for the dog.

"She got in her car and then she started calling people and before you knew it everybody around there was looking for our dog," Halter said.

After two days of unsuccessful searching, the Halters, brokenhearted, resumed their travels. "We went to the library and the librarian in Chester made us posters and wouldn't charge us a dime for them," Halter said. The family put up posters in banks and post offices in the small towns around the area. "That was about all we could do," she said.

After a few false sightings, the family didn't hear anything for six months. As fall turned into winter, heavy snow fell in the Chester area and temperatures occasionally fell into the 20-below-zero range.

"Every time we'd hear about the weather we would just cringe," Halter said. "I would just cry even harder, thinking 'Where is my Buck?' And of course I couldn't let my son (17-year-old Jason) know. I never let him see me cry because he kept the faith and kept the hope."

"He would tell me all the time that Buck's coming home," she said of her son, who had had the dog since it was a puppy. "He actually thought he was going to walk home like in (the movie) 'Homeward Bound."'

It was about 27 degrees below zero early on Jan. 25, the day Jason Wanken spotted a stray dog on his family farm just north of Chester.

"We spotted this dog out here on the farm, just on and off, going through the creek and whatnot," Wanken said. "We just never had a prime opportunity to go over and get him." Later in the week, Wanken used a snowmobile to bring some food to the dog, which had taken up residence under a collapsed building. Wanken's mother had remembered the name of the golden retriever that had gone missing last summer and told Wanken to see if the dog would answer to the name Buck.

"The next day, I took the boys out with me and I had a full bag of food with me and I just rattled that bag," he said. "I started to feed it and could actually pet it then." Wanken and his wife were able to use food to lure the dog into a kennel. They then took the dog to Woods' house. "I thought it couldn't be this dog, though, it's been too long," Wanken said.

Woods called Halter on Saturday, Jan. 31. "She e-mailed me three pictures and when I was on the phone with her I received the pictures, and we both started crying and I said that was him," Halter said. Confirmation that the dog had an underbite sent the Halters on a 750-mile trip. "We drove all night," she said, arriving in Chester Sunday afternoon.

"When we got to the Wankens, he ran right up to us and it was absolutely without a doubt him," Halter said. "It was a miracle. He looked at us and we looked at him and we were all crying. It was beyond amazing."

No one seems to know where Buck had been between Aug. 13 and Jan. 25. "From the time he left us until the time Jason Wanken found him, there is no clue where he's been or what he's done," Halter said. "Only he knows. I almost feel like taking him to a pet psychic to see if they could tell me. Only he knows his secret and he's keeping it to himself.

Jason Halter of Bonney Lake, Wash., is seen with his dog Buck, on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009 in Chester, Mont. Buck who was spooked by a train and had been missing in north-central Montana for six months before being found by Chester residents.

"I tell ya one thing, he hasn't stopped smiling since he got home and neither have we."

Source - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,489508,00.html
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