UPI News – A Florida family’s dog, missing for nearly 10 days, returned home for the holidays and rang her family’s doorbell about 2:30 a.m.
Green Cove Springs resident Brooke Comer said her family’s 4-year-old German shepherd mix, Athena, went missing Dec. 15, and the neighborhood rallied to try to find her.
“People all the way from Jacksonville and Saint Augustine were like inboxing me,” Comer told WDSU-TV.
Comer said Athena brought herself home in what she described to First Coast News as “a Christmas miracle.”
“It was about 2:30 a.m. She came pawing at the door, ringing the doorbell,” Comer said. “Which was Christmas Eve. And then that morning I woke up to — she had made it on everybody’s [doorbell] camera.”
Talk about a feel good story! Having been in a dog house as a family growing up, and that dog frequently running away or breaking out of the house when the door was left open as a puppy, there’s nothing worse than that feeling when you realize the dog is gone. In retrospect maybe we should have kept the door a little more closed, but that’s neither here nor there. Plus the dog usually came back within an hour because of our neighbors were the best. We’d get the call and go pick him up and hope it didn’t happen again. Look, again, I understand our dog shouldn’t have been running away all the time, but it was a different era. We rode bikes around the block and sometimes the dog got out, is what it is. But I can’t imagine 9 days of that uncertainty of if and when he’s coming back.
So shoutout to this dog for being a warrior and finding her way back. There’s a lot of things that can amaze you with dogs. Like the way they wait at the door for you to come home, how gentle they are with babies, how they seem to know to not leave your side when something is really wrong, how they can lick their balls with ease, etc. But the one thing that may have amazed me the most is how they find their way home. That intuition and navigation skills are amazing. Do we think they can pick games? I’m in a hole already this year and maybe I can get this dog to give me some CBB winners.
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