Penny

Missing Columbus Dog Found One Year Later in Richmond, Virginia Hotel
Thursday December 19, 2013

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Columbus family is relieved after learning their dog, missing for one year, was discovered hundreds of miles away in an abandoned hotel room in Richmond, Virginia.

The Christmas tree sparkles and the gifts are stacked underneath.

A much happier holiday scene than last year in the McGregor house.

"It was the day we were leaving for my in-laws for the holidays and we were just beside ourselves," said Jone Mason McGregor.

The family's four year old fur ball, Penny, just vanished.

"It's like a beloved member of our family gone," said McGregor.  "We were like the sad family that showed up at the pound every day for like months."

The family let Penny out in the backyard.  They think she somehow slipped under the fence and got away.

"Think about the logistics of an eight pound dog and all the things that could happen to her, but in my heart of hearts I just felt she was still somewhere around," said McGregor.

McGregor's feeling was right.  But that somewhere was nowhere near.  Little Penny turned up in a hotel room in Richmond, Virginia, abandoned.

"It's 479 miles," said McGregor.  "I burst into tears. I couldn't believe it,"

McGregor has no idea where Penny's been or who's had her. The family's just happy she's about to come home.

"It's really an amazing Christmas gift to our family," said McGregor.


McGregor's husband plans to drive to Virginia Sunday to pick Penny up.

The couple hopes to learn more about where she has been this whole time.

Source: http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2013/12/19/columbus-missing-dog-found-year-later-in-richmond-virginia.html

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/

Bucky, black lab

Dog Makes 500-Mile Journey Home
By Eliza Murphy
Sep 4, 2012 1:14pm

Bucky, a 3-year-old black Labrador, somehow traveled 500 miles from Virginia all the way home to Myrtle Beach, S.C., to be reunited with his owner, Mark Wessells.

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“I thought I was going to cry, but I didn’t. He definitely recognized me instantly,” Wessells told TV station WPDE. “It’s just crazy he made it down here on his own. You know it’s like homeward bound is what I’m thinking.”

This past January, Wessells had to leave the dog with his father  in Winchester, Va., because dogs were banned from where Wessells lives in Myrtle Beach.

But Bucky wouldn’t have it.  Somehow, the dog managed to travel all the way home to South Carolina,  by himself.

Two weeks ago, local resident Brett Gallagher found Bucky wandering through his “Carolina Forest” neighborhood, noticed he got along pretty well with his own yellow lab, Hannah, and took him in.

“Apparently the dog came up to them at 2 a.m. when Brett was out walking their dog. They were kind of scared at first, but he was friendly as can be. Brett put some weight on him. He was pretty emaciated when he first got him,” Lexie Grant from Grand Strand Animal Hospital told ABC News.

Gallagher looked on Craigslist and other local postings for ads that described the missing dog, but found nothing. So the temporary owner took Bucky into the animal hospital to get a physical done. This is when the veterinarian, Dr. Amanda Thomas, found his microchip revealing Bucky’s real name and his owner’s phone number.

“He was going nuts when the vet called him by his real name. His hears went right up,” Gallagher told ABC News.

As soon as Wessells got the phone call that Buck was at the nearby animal hospital, he made his way there to be reunited with his long-lost Labrador.

It’s still unclear exactly how Bucky made his way home, but Dr. Thomas thinks it may be due to the dog’s keen sense of smell. Apparently when Bucky returned to his owner’s house “he was rolling all around. He was just laying in all of his blankets just soaking up his smell,” Grant said.

Source with video: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2012/09/dog-makes-500-mile-journey-home/