Dog lost 2 years is reunited with family
HIRAM, Ga. — A dog that bolted after being frightened in a car wreck has been returned to his owners after going missing for two years.
Bear, a black dog with a little gray around his muzzle, was a rescue dog that Kelly Thomas and Ted Kupferman said they cherished.
"I rear-ended somebody and the accident startled Bear, and he ran across (Georgia) 120 and into the woods," Kupferman said. "I spent 12 hours that day searching his name, combing the area and could find absolutely nothing, and that's how I lost him."
In October 2014, Kira Backwell and Stephanie Sparks of nearby Marietta, Ga., saw a big black dog roaming around a used auto parts yard. They tracked his footprints.
They tried to catch him but couldn't, so they fed him twice a day for the next 13 months.
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This past Sunday, with help from several rescue groups, they penned Bear. Then they found a microchip, which when scanned, listed his owners.
A day later, the family reunited.
"I'm still crying over it," Kupferman said. "This was not just a dog. … This was my best friend; this was my child."
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