Lost dog found four years later, 1,100 miles from home

[ZeoBandit]

Here's a nice feel good story!

Lost dog found four years later, 1,100 miles from home
POSTED: 10:54 a.m. EDT, April 5, 2007
Story Highlights
• Mickey the Boston terrier disappeared from his Missouri home four years ago
• He turned up at Billings, Montana, animal shelter this week
• Shelter traced him to his vet back home via implanted ID microchip
• Owners were 'besides themselves' when they heard Mickey had been found

LEE'S SUMMIT, Missouri (AP) -- A Boston terrier named Mickey who disappeared four years ago from his suburban Kansas City backyard was found in Montana and reunited with his owners this week.

Cher Jarosz and her daughter Kari Mitchell thought they had lost Mickey forever -- until they received a call from an animal shelter last week 1,100 miles away in Billings, Montana.

A microchip on Mickey helped the Billings Animal Shelter return him. (Watch Mickey's happy homecoming )

"Some lady from the public walked in the back door," said Kristal Ward, office manager at the shelter. "She found the dog running up the street. She tossed him to me, and that's how it started."

Ward said she called Avid, a company that makes microchip identification systems, and was given the name of a veterinary clinic in Lee's Summit, Missouri.

"I called that vet clinic because they were the one that should have a record of that chip," Ward said. "I gave them the chip number, and the woman kind of started screaming.

"She goes, 'Oh my God, is that a Boston terrier? Oh my God, it belongs to Kari Mitchell. She used to work here."'

Ward called Mitchell and confirmed that the dog was Mickey, she said.

After she talked to Mitchell, "Her mother called, and they were just beside themselves," Ward said.

The family said he looks different and doesn't remember his name. His teeth show signs of wear and tear.

Only Mickey knows how he wound up in Montana, and that's fine by Mitchell.

"We're happy to have him home," she told KSHB-TV in Kansas City after Mickey caught a flight home. "I just hope whoever was taking care of him, I hope they were just glad he's home."

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[jimmy812]

...and Van Halen can't deliver a summer tour??!!

[StonewallVH5150]

As a dong lover, I must say that kicks ass.

[FindMyself]

As a dong lover, I must say that kicks ass.

What's this story have to do with penis?

[Double Down]

As a dong lover, I must say that kicks ass.

Lol..!! As typo's go, that's priceless.

[ZeoBandit]

Oops!

LMAO!

[jimmy812]

As a dong lover, I must say that kicks ass.

I told you guys Stonewall was a dong-lover. Pay up!!!

[WinterlessIceness]

That's how a typo steals the hype of the story.

Cool story regardless

[VAREB]

Very cool story. Dogs are amazing.

As for the "Dong Lover", that's got to be the sadest yet funniest typo ever. I'll have to add that one to "Fudge Packer" and "Rump Ranger"

[cokemach1]

As a dong lover, I must say that kicks ass.

I have tears running down my face right now. When Stonewall comes back, I don't know if we can let 'em live that one down.



GREAT story about the dog, by the way!!!!!!

[onefootoutthedoor]

Cool story.

[MF5150]

...and Van Halen can't deliver a summer tour??!!

[OLO]

I have had my last two dogs microchiped.

[voivod]

I have had my last two dogs microchiped.

My wife had my dong microchiped...