Missing dog found 1 600km away
2007-04-06 23:13
Chicago - A cuddly Boston Terrier who disappeared from his back yard four years ago turned up more than 1 600km away.
Mickey looked a little gray around the whiskers and didn't remember his name when he got off a plane and crawled into the arms of his owner on Tuesday.
But that made no difference to Kari Mitchell who fought back tears in the Kansas City, Missouri airport on Tuesday.
"How did you get to Montana? It's cold up there!" she said as she caressed her long lost dog.
Mickey didn't answer. And even the animal shelter which found him last week couldn't tell Mitchell how her stocky dog ended up roaming aimlessly in rural Montana.
But Mitchell said she wasn't bothered by the mystery: she's just glad to have Mickey home.
"I just hope whoever was taking care of him just knew how much we loved him," she told KSHB-TV news as she cuddled the black and white pup in the airport arrivals area.
Mitchell told the NBC affiliate the Montana animal shelter traced Mickey back to her with the help of an implanted microchip.