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HARPER WOODS, Mich. — A canine lacking in California because the summer season turned up greater than 2,000 miles away in Michigan.
Police in Harper Woods, a Detroit suburb, responded to a name a couple of stray canine final week, picked up the terrier combine and contacted an animal welfare group.
Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society mentioned it rapidly found that the canine, named Mishka, had an identification chip implanted in her with details about her proprietor.
Mehrad Houman and his household stay in San Diego however have been in Minneapolis when the telephone rang. He drove 10 hours to Michigan for a reunion with Mishka, the adoption group mentioned on a Facebook post with pictures and video.
“This is a tale that Hollywood would love to tell,” the group mentioned.
Harper Woods police confirmed its involvement Thursday. A message searching for extra remark was left for the animal organization.
Mishka had disappeared in July from Houman’s office.
“She was clean, well-fed. Whoever had her took good care of her,” mentioned veterinarian Nancy Pillsbury, who examined the 3-year-old canine, gave her a rabies shot and cleared her to journey home to California.
“How she got here — that’s a story only Mishka knows,” Pillsbury instructed The Associated Press.
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