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Humane Animal Rescue says it found Dutchess under a shed on Monday. She was hungry, shivering and needed a nail trim. The rescue center used Dutchess' microchip to locate her owner, Katheryn Strang, who drove roughly 1,130 miles from Boca Raton to Pittsburgh to reunite with her long-lost pet.

After a late night at a stock-car race, Carole and Verne King returned to their dog-friendly hotel in Kalispell, Mont., and made a devastating discovery. Their 7-year-old Border collie, Katie, was no longer in the room. She had apparently managed to unlatch the door, possibly spooked by a thunderstorm that had swept through the area. At the front desk, an attendant said she had seen an anxious dog bolt out the front door hours before. The Kings were stunned. In the small city of 23,000 people that backs up to the sprawling wilderness near Glacier National Park, surrounded by forests...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —One New Mexico dog pulled off a truly incredible journey. Josie disappeared from a farm in Rincon, New Mexico, eight months ago. Josie’s owner is Racheal Carpenter. Her family farms everything from pecans to cotton to onions. Josie disappeared during last July’s harvest.“She was gone long enough that we just quit looking,” Carpenter said.The family figured Josie had wandered off and died of old age. But an unexpected phone call from Oswego, Illinois, proved them wrong.“They said, ‘We found your dog,’” Carpenter said.Josie somehow ended up at an animal shelter in Joplin, Missouri. A rescue group sent her...

When animal control officers were called to a Greenville, South Carolina, neighborhood to pick up a wandering pit bull on a cold Monday in December, they didn't expect a mystery to unfold. But inside a fold of the dog's collar, they found a wrinkled black-and-white photo. It had no name or date. A smiling man seated on a railing looks straight into the camera -- but, beyond that, the photo offers no clues. The friendly tan canine, now named Soldier because the man in the photo may be wearing a military uniform, was skinny but well-behaved, said Susan Bufano, community...

The last listed address for the dogs owner is the Miami area. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A St. Petersburg man is trying to track down the owner of a dog found treading water in Tampa Bay. Early Thursday morning, a fishermen saw the dog, pulled it from the water and brought it to a marina at Demens Landing Park. It's not clear how the dog got into the water, nor how long it had been there before it was rescued. Anthony Basile was going to pay rent for his boat slip Thursday morning when he saw the fishermen putting the...

Bryce the dog is back in Highland Park with family and friends after quite an adventure. Last week he chased a truck down the street, was hit, broke his leg and limped off – stunned. He disappeared. His owner, Amy Silverman, started searching. “I came home,” she recalls, “and immediately went to Facebook and said, ‘Social media I need your help. We lost our dog. Here’s a picture of him.’”

My daughter was getting ready for work and she took Frankie(mom) and Mocha(daughter)out to use the potty and in her hurry, she thought Mocha ran inside her apartment. So she and Frankie followed and she closed the door unaware that Frankie was still outside. My daughter is plaqued with guilt and on a mission with flyers to find her Doggie..please pray for my daughter(feelings of guilt) and that we find Mocha and bring her home. Thank You..Mom:)

The 15-year-old canine, which is blind and partly deaf, is believed to have escaped and run to a dock along the Alafia River with the help of another one of Carter's dogs. That's where Brian Peterson enters the story. He was jet skiing on the river on July 4th when a woman alerted him to a dog in the water. "Elsie was drowning," Peterson recalled. "I got on my jet ski, went over and jumped out and saved her." "We took her home with us and started the process of putting found dog [fliers] out there," he said. "We had...

For 26 days, D.J. Rodrian put normal life on hold while he led an exhaustive search for his lost dog, Titus. Rodrian slept many of those nights in a tent in his former neighborhood in the hope his beloved pet would return to the familiar spot. Hundreds of people responded to ubiquitous fliers and to Rodrian's website devoted to the search. Total strangers walked or drove the Menomonee Parkway, the Oak Leaf Trail, Currie Park, the Mount Mary College neighborhood and other areas, hoping to find the 8-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback. The happy outcome everyone hoped and prayed for was not...

My dog made a quick get out as I was closing the garage door...tried to run after him, but he is toooo fast. My husband and I looked for him for 3 hours last night. Put up signs and went to the shelter...no sight of him. If I could get some prayers for help in finding him, I would appreciate it. Thanks. God Bless.

Here is a video report on a truly amazing story of a dog that ran off 10 years ago from his Virginia home being found ten years later in - Oklahoma, 1,300 miles away! The dog had a microchip implanted under the skin and the owner was found using Facebook. . . . (VIDEO)

Lost "Mohammed" Dog Poster Left in Front of Muslim This happened in Lewiston, Maine, the same place where a ham steak left on a lunch bag was investigated as a hate crime. Check out the phone number on the poster, Tommy Tutone now wanted for questioning.... LEWISTON (NEWS CENTER) -- Members of the Somali community in Lewiston say a poster put up in front of a local Somali owned store is an insult to their religion The poster depicts a vicious "lost" dog named Mohammed. That's the name of the Muslim prophet. It says that the dog is not good...

Today, I came home from the library, and my son is gone (not surprising, I really didn't expect him to be home. He spends very little awake time at home), and the front door behind the glass open, his pillow and sheet on the sofa (where he's been sleeping lately cause his room heats up) instead of the cover I have to protect it from the dogs sitting on it, none of his chores done, and one of my dogs is missing. Hunter's an escape artist. She is notorious for finding holes under the fence where no one suspects them....

Hey, did you hear the one about the Chicago lawyer who found a 7-year-old Florida boy's lost dog and took it home to Chicago? And how the alleged dognapping Chicago lawyer now refuses to return the dog to the boy, because the lawyer says he gave it to a mystery nun whom he won't name? You didn't hear that one? It's no joke to Miles, the little boy from Cape Coral, Fla., who misses his dog. Miles was sobbing on the phone. "Please," Miles said, crying. "Can I have my dog back? Can I have my dog back, please?" On...

Lost dog, lawyer, crying boy: Story has everything Published February 9, 2005 Hey, did you hear the one about the Chicago lawyer who found a 7-year-old Florida boy's lost dog and took it home to Chicago? And how the alleged dognapping Chicago lawyer now refuses to return the dog to the boy, because the lawyer says he gave it to a mystery nun whom he won't name? You didn't hear that one? It's no joke to Miles, the little boy from Cape Coral, Fla., who misses his dog. Miles was sobbing on the phone. "Please," Miles said, crying. "Can I...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It's been a rough month for hotel heiress Paris Hilton. First, her Hollywood Hills home was burglarized and now her pet Chihuahua, Tinkerbell, has disappeared. Hilton, star of the Fox reality show "The Simple Life 2: Road Trip," is offering a $5,000 reward for her dog, missing since last Wednesday, Hilton's spokeswoman, Tracy Shaffer, confirmed Tuesday. It's unclear how the dog managed to get away. Tinkerbell - decked out in pink coats or puppy-sized sneakers - has made regular appearances on Hilton's reality show. Posters for the pampered pet were displayed all over the West Hollywood...