A dog that was lost in California last summer was found more than 2,000 miles away in Michigan last week, and was reunited with her family, the Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society said Wednesday.
Mehrad Houman lives in San Diego, and last July, his wife and young daughter were out of town for a month. While they were gone, he brought their dog Mishka to work with him. One day, Mishka disappeared from his workplace, and was nowhere to be found.
On March 28 of this year, a concerned resident in Harper Woods, Mich., contacted local police about an apparently stray dog roaming the neighborhood. Officers collected the seemingly stray terrier mix and transported her to Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society (GPAAS).
When the shelter scanned the dog for a microchip, they learned her family was all the way in San Diego and contacted them.
Coincidentally, Houman and his family were traveling to Minneapolis, Minn., for Easter, and he drove 10 hours to Michigan to retrieve Mishka.
Before Mishka could fly back to San Diego with her family, she needed to be checked out at Harper Woods Veterinary Hospital by veterinarian Nancy Pillsbury.
“She was clean, well-fed. Whoever had her took good care of her,” Pillsbury told The Associated Press. “How she got here — that's a story only Mishka knows."
"This is a tale that Hollywood would love to tell," GPAAS wrote alongside videos of Mishka's joyful reunion with her family in Minneapolis.
"This process worked on 3 levels," GPAAS wrote. "The Houman's were responsible dog owners and had Mishka microchipped. A concerned Harper Woods resident alerted the Harper Woods PD which transported Mishka to GPAAS. We were able to locate the Houman's through the microchip technology and reunite Mishka with the Houmans. This is the happy ending we all wanted."
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