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January 31st, 2007, 12:26 PM
Missing 6 years, Cujo the golden retriever reunited with owners in St. Louis
Published: Monday, January 29, 2007 | 10:23 AM ET
Canadian Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Cujo was a frisky seven-year-old when he sneaked out of his owners' yard in July 2000.
Now, thinner and greyer and with a tale that would be fascinating if only he could tell it, the golden retriever is back with the Barczewski family.
"It's a miracle," 41-year-old Noreen Barczewski said at Friday's reunion. "We found him!"
Six years can do a lot to a dog, but it was unmistakably Cujo. There was the heart-shaped patch of white on his forehead, the white fur on his toes, his manner of greeting people by rubbing against them cat-style.
Cujo had somehow ended up almost 200 kilometres away in Columbia in the home of an elderly woman. When the woman entered a nursing home, the dog was sent to the Central Missouri Humane Society in Columbia.
A week ago, Noreen Barczewski's brother-in-law, Michael Barczewski, went to a pet adoption agency website on a fluke. He'd been looking for a dog to adopt and saw the picture of the old dog with the white heart mark and white feet.
He recognized the Cujo immediately, and the reunion followed within days.
© The Canadian Press, 2007
A good reason not to ever give up hope...:pray: :fingerscr :pray:
Published: Monday, January 29, 2007 | 10:23 AM ET
Canadian Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Cujo was a frisky seven-year-old when he sneaked out of his owners' yard in July 2000.
Now, thinner and greyer and with a tale that would be fascinating if only he could tell it, the golden retriever is back with the Barczewski family.
"It's a miracle," 41-year-old Noreen Barczewski said at Friday's reunion. "We found him!"
Six years can do a lot to a dog, but it was unmistakably Cujo. There was the heart-shaped patch of white on his forehead, the white fur on his toes, his manner of greeting people by rubbing against them cat-style.
Cujo had somehow ended up almost 200 kilometres away in Columbia in the home of an elderly woman. When the woman entered a nursing home, the dog was sent to the Central Missouri Humane Society in Columbia.
A week ago, Noreen Barczewski's brother-in-law, Michael Barczewski, went to a pet adoption agency website on a fluke. He'd been looking for a dog to adopt and saw the picture of the old dog with the white heart mark and white feet.
He recognized the Cujo immediately, and the reunion followed within days.
© The Canadian Press, 2007
A good reason not to ever give up hope...:pray: :fingerscr :pray: