The Wanderer: Dog Missing 3 Years Found....120 Miles Away

[Bill]

3 years and 120 miles later, a missing dog is found
The Sideshow

By Mike Krumboltz, Yahoo News | The Sideshow – 7 hrs ago..

If dogs could talk, this one would have quite a story.

Three years after disappearing from his Albuquerque home, a dog named Yoshi was found more than a hundred miles away at an animal shelter in Las Vegas, N.M., KOAT.com reports.

How Yoshi, a red heeler and husky mix, ended up so far away from home is still a mystery and will likely remain one.

Monique Martinez adopted the pooch when Yoshi was just a puppy. She told KOAT.com that a short time later, Yoshi broke out of her yard while she was at school.

Martinez looked all around the neighborhood but couldn't find her missing dog. About a week after Yoshi disappeared, Martinez heard he may have been hit by a car, according to KOAT.com.

So how was Yoshi found? Fortunately the dog had been given a microchip implant. The microchip contained information about his owner and address. When Yoshi showed up at the shelter, workers checked the microchip and contacted Martinez. The dog was reportedly a bit underweight but in otherwise fine condition.

We hope you had a good time exploring America's Southwest, Yoshi, because something tells us you're gonna have a tough time escaping a second time.

Follow Mike Krumboltz on Twitter (@mikekrumboltz).


Collar and tags are great, but microchipping your pet is important, too.

[Bill]

Dion The Wanderer - YouTube

[Bucwheat]

Amazing

[mrvette]

Fall of '79, Ex and I had two cats, just moved into our town house community, and so the joint was full of roaming cats, I removed the glass from the sliding basement door, and put in a cat door with plexi above it.....put the glass in storage.....so our two cats could roam the burb with the rest of them....we had collars on ours though.....

so one day Sally cat winds up missing, and so it seems the neighbor across the street was trapping cats and turning them into the shelter, of course the neighborhood kids got PISSED when they found that out.....at any rate they were trapping cats because they wanted to keep some common area clean from crap so their kids could play football/sports on the lawn between sections....and so when Sally went missing for a few days, it was US on one side and our neighbor friends and them assholes across the street....

so it came to pass that by one Sat. AM there are them two on one side, and a bunch of us on our side, and one of our cats bolts straight across the street, stops directly in middle of the green 'playing field' and drops a steeming turd....then takes off like a bat outta hell for the woods behind them.....we all about SHIT a brick, it was as if it was some hollywood animation, today a GIF file.....we just all ROARED with laughter, even some of the 'enemies' across the street laughed too.....

but Sally was still gone, and they swore they never caught Sally, who was wearing a blue collar.....

about 3 months later at like 3AM we get this call that our cat was found across town, maybe ten miles away.....front paw all rubbed raw and bleeding from being caught in collar.....thin and hungry and in bad trouble....so we went and got her.....a month later the little piggy was fine.....seems she hopped into a van with window down, guy got in, drove home, and this cat shot outta the van soon as he parked......


:rofl::rofl:

[lspencer534]

Gene, sounds like my traveling cat story. Years ago I had a 6-month-old cat who disappeared. I spent the day looking for her, driving around the neighborhood, calling her. That night, my neighbor came over and told me that the cat hitched a ride to the hospital where he worked, about 20 miles away. He didn't see her in the bed of his truck until he parked at the hospital, and she jumped out and ran away.

A cat I'll never see again, I thought. 4 months later, she was on the counter in the work shop, crying to be fed. She was skinny, but otherwise nonetheless worse for wear. I thought it was quite a feat for a young cat.