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Gordon Severson, KARE 8:30 PM. PDT October 18, 2017
["537"]Shirley Pierce's 3-year-old Shih Tzu, Beau, was missing for 14 months. Now, they've been reunited.
SAINT PAUL, Minn - Dog owners generally admiration what their pets would say if they could talk.
While some dogs ability animadversion on their admired couch in the active room, or their admired dog toy, Shirley Pierce's 3-year-old Shih Tzu, Beau, would accept absolutely a bit added to say.
"I aloof admiration area he's all been," Pierce says.
You see, Beau has been abroad from home for a while.
"I haven't apparent him in over a year," Pierce explains.
It was August of 2016 aback Pierce aftermost saw Beau. She says he was angry up to his bridle in the backyard, abaft a fence. Somehow, he got away.
"I anticipate it was some of the adjacency kids who took him out to comedy with him," Pierce says.
Frantic to acquisition her dog, Pierce acquaint missing dog letters on several websites, and alike alleged the police.
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Her efforts to acquisition Beau alike led her to St. Cloud aback some saw a white Shih Tzu abnormality the neighborhood.
"I got there and it wasn't him," Pierce says.
Nearly 14 months anesthetized with no assurance of Beau. Pierce wondered if she would anytime see him again.
You can brainstorm her abruptness aback she got a buzz alarm Tuesday afternoon that addition had assuredly begin him.
"I got so nervous," Pierce says. "I anon jumped up and larboard assignment and I thought, oh, I bigger acquaint my bang-up I'm leaving."
She bound sped off to Cathedral Hill Montessori School in St. Paul, area Beau was cat-and-mouse for her. He bound became a admired amid agents and students.
"They aloof capital to pet the dog and see how it was doing," Molly Hoyt says.
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["853"]Hoyt came beyond Beau Tuesday morning during her circadian airing to work. She noticed article bound out in advanced of her and anon accomplished it was a dog.
"I ran beyond cartage to get it, because I accomplished it was a dog and it was so tiny that no one would accept apparent it," Hoyt says.
She affective the dog aloof in the knick of time. Hoyt says he was branch appear I-94.
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"I agitated this dog for a mile, because I didn't appetite to set it down," Hoyt laughs.
She was afraid to see the dog had no leash, and no collar. However, aback she got to work, co-workers apparent an ID chip.
Staff associates fabricated a few calls and searched the internet. Eventually they begin Shirley.
They knew it was her the minute she absolved through their doors. Shirley was animated from ear to ear and anon asked for her admired "Beau Beau."
"It was aloof a admirable moment," Hoyt recalls. "It was one of those authentication moments you see on the internet that is so absolute that makes you admiration if they're real."
["745"]Beau didn't assume to admit his buyer at first. He anxiously absolved appear her, but from the moment she best him up, his appendage never chock-full wagging.
"I prayed that I would acquisition him," Pierce says. "I aloof beholden to god that I got him back."
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Now that Beau has been found, the catechism remains, area has he been all this time?
KARE-11 News has afresh abstruse the dog was active with addition ancestors in the Twin Cities that didn't apperceive he was missing.
It's still a abstruseness area Beau was active afore then.
"I'm aloof so animated I had him chipped, so that I could acquisition him again," Pierce says.
For added on how to dent your dog, and how to acquisition a missing pet, bang here.
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