Texas family shocked to find dog missing 3 days is already across country

[Judi Lynn]

Texas family shocked to find dog missing 3 days is already across country

By Carol Christian | April 2, 2014



No one knows how a short-legged 3-year-old dog named Corbin made it from his home in Killeen to an animal shelter in southwest Ohio.

Thanks to a microchip and some volunteer drivers, however, the chihuahua/dachshund mix is on his way home. Corbin is expected to be reunited late Wednesday with owners Mike and Sharlette Saiz in Texas.

"The last update we got, he's in Arkansas," Mike Saiz said about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. "Hopefully, sometime this evening, he'll be home. My 8-year-old son will be pretty excited."

The family also has two daughters, ages 10 and 15.

A couple who happens to live about 10 blocks from the Saizes but were not previously acquainted with them are driving the dog back to Killeen after attending a funeral in Ohio.

The details of Corbin's stranding more than 1,100 miles from home, as well as the solution made possible by the kindness of strangers, were hammered out by phone and Facebook, said Saiz, who has lived in Killeen most of his life and works for a computer company in Temple.

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http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Texas-family-shocked-to-find-dog-missing-3-days-5370612.php?cmpid=htx

[hlthe2b]

1. ^^This^^

Kindness of strangers, indeed...

[marzipanni]

2. Yay, for microchips and Facebook!

What an amazing story- and the fact that Corbin was only missing 3 days, and already he's on his way home, makes it even more so.
I just wish the person who had him had taken him into the shelter herself, instead of dropping him off at midnight on a stormy night! Perhaps she was guilty of dog napping, and he hadn't climbed into a U-Haul trailer in his family's neighborhood, as his owner surmised.

[shenmue]

3. Lordy!

Yay!

[avebury]

4. The family really needs to find a better

home for this poor dog or stop leaving him by himself in the yard. This was not the first time the dog got out. The family does not appear to be learning anything about keeping their pet safe.


"It sounds like one of those too-good-to-be-true stories," Corbin's owner, Mike Saiz, told The Cincinnati Enquirer. "This isn't the first time he dug a hole under the fence. One time he was waiting for us on our front porch and the other two times we had to pick him up from the local pound."

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The staff located Saiz after finding a microchip on him that contained his owners' information.

"They called my wife and she told me that they found our dog, but she didn't sound happy about it," Saiz said. "I asked if he was OK and she told me he was fine. I then asked where the shelter was and she said, 'Hamilton — not Hamilton, Texas, but Hamilton, Ohio.'"

http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/dog-escapes-texas-backyard-ohio-23162464