{"id":18566,"date":"2024-04-04T21:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T21:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/missing-dog-turns-up-nine-months-later-and-2000-miles-from-home\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T21:40:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T21:40:06","slug":"missing-dog-turns-up-nine-months-later-and-2000-miles-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/missing-dog-turns-up-nine-months-later-and-2000-miles-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing dog turns up nine months later &#8211; and 2,000 miles from home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/04\/70x70\/skynews-mishka-mehrad-houman_6510524.jpg?20240404210110&amp;fit=70,70&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Missing dog turns up nine months later &#8211; and 2,000 miles from home\" title=\"Missing dog turns up nine months later &#8211; and 2,000 miles from home\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>A dog missing from California has been reunited with its owners after turning up almost nine months later &#8211; and more than 2,000 miles away from the family home.<\/p>\n<p>Terrier mix Mishka went missing from San Diego in mid-July last year and her owners&#8217; social media pleas for information failed to deliver any leads.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward nearly nine months and just before Easter, authorities in suburban Detroit, Michigan, responded to a call about a stray dog.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Harper Woods picked the pooch up and contacted animal welfare group The Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society.<\/p>\n<p>They soon discovered three-year-old Mishka had been chipped with information about her owner, who lives in San Diego, on the US west coast.<\/p>\n<p>Mehrad Houman and his family were planning to travel to Minnesota when they got the call about Mishka being found.<\/p>\n<p>Once the flight landed, he drove 10 hours to Michigan for an emotional reunion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More from Sky News:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/italy-tiny-sicilian-island-giving-away-goats-as-tensions-grow-over-rapidly-expanding-animal-population-13107661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This tiny island is giving away goats<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/pig-kidney-transplant-patient-leaves-massachusetts-hospital-13107555\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pig kidney transplant patient leaves hospital<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a tale that Hollywood would love to tell,&#8221; the adoption society said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>Mishka had disappeared from Mr Houman&#8217;s workplace and Corinne Martin, director of the animal welfare group, believes the dog was &#8220;stolen and then it was sold and ended up in Michigan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/download-app\" target=\"blank\" data-tracking-label=\"ui-app-promo-download-link\" class=\"ui-app-promo sdc-article-widget\" data-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"ui-app-promo\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>After being checked over and given a rabies shot, Mishka was cleared to return to her California home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was clean [and] well-fed. Whoever had her took good care of her,&#8221; vet Nancy Pillsbury told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How she got here &#8211; that&#8217;s a story only Mishka knows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dog missing from California has been reunited with its owners after turning up almost nine months later &#8211; and more than 2,000 miles away from the family home. Terrier mix Mishka went missing from San Diego in mid-July last year and her owners&#8217; social media pleas for information failed to deliver any leads. 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