Butters the dog was safely home at last.
One family residing in Las Vegas had received news that their family dog, Butters, was found missing one afternoon. Butters had escaped from their family yard, via a hole he had dug under the fence. At first, no one knew why Butters would do that, though. All they wanted was Butters to return home again safely.
Butters’ family had just returned from a trip to California. Before they left, Butters had to be left behind. However, there was no one else around to take care of him. Some speculated that Butters left the yard to look for his family. In addition, Butters had shown symptoms of separation anxiety towards his family members before.
The family was frantic. They rushed home in order to put up lost dog flyers around the neighborhood, as well as to phone as many animal shelters and veterinary clinics as they could possibly can to locate Butters ASAP. There was no news of the lost pooch until after 2 weeks later.
A local mobile app created specifically to locate lost dogs alerted the family that Butters had been found – he was discovered in front of someone else’s doorstep, at the end of the street at 3 am! One of Butters’ family members hurriedly drove all the way there to fetch the lost dog back home safely. All she had to do was to call out to him, and he hopped into her car right away!
Butters is now safely home, much to the joy of his dad!
Catch a glimpse of their reunion below!
Touching Reunion With Missing Dog After 12 Days
"We had just left to go out of town and my sister was supposed to pick up our dog, Butters, later on that night. Butters gets bad anxiety when we are gone and apparently, he decided to dig a hole under the fence soon after we left; (I can only assume) to try and find us. We were relatively new to the neighborhood and did not know our neighbors very well yet. Our neighbors tried to catch Butters, but he took off running. The next day, we drove back from California to our home in Las Vegas to immediately start looking for him. We put up fliers, called local vets, checked the pound daily, and drove countless hours looking for him. Finally, we got a message from one of the local lost dog apps saying that they had seen a dog who looked like ours running down the 215 freeway in Las Vegas at around 3 AM. My husband left and spent all morning looking in that area. Finally, my husband came back home and I immediately left to keep looking. Normally, we never drive down dead-end streets because we we can see down them… But, something told me to go down this specific one—and I saw Butters laying at someone's doorstep! I called Butters name and he immediately took off running towards me. Butters means the world to all of us and we never gave up! We'd still be looking if we had not found him. It was a very emotional reunion!"#LoveWhatMattersA Love What Matters Original StorySubmitted by A. Vargas
Posted by Love What Matters on Saturday, November 4, 2017
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