The shih tzu - poodle premix made a shift for it outside a store , and it took two weeks to find her .
People like to jest that the internet is 80 percent photographs of deary . Well if that ’s the case , then stories like this just prove we ’re all doing some unfeignedly important work .
St. Patrick ’s Day was a bad day for Amanda Lambeth of Bangor , Maine . The unmarried mama was out running errand during the day and made a stop at BJ ’s Wholesale Club , which is when her 11 - year - oldshih - tzu - poodlemix Peggy Sue hopped out of the car and made a break for it — a fairly admirable feat for a slight dog with only three legs ! Lambeth spoke to direction at BJ ’s about endeavor to find Peggy Sue in security footage of the parking draw , and she was told that Peggy Sue had beenpicked upby someone who presumably think she was abandoned and may have taken her home .
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In plus to posting aviator and scouring the neighbourhood , Amanda reached out toMaine Lost Dog Recovery , a group that focus on using social media to get the word out about missing pets . They post Peggy Sue ’s photo to Facebook and Instagram in an elbow grease to get her cunning little face out to as many people as possible . Happily , two weeks later , the group ’s efforts give off .
Shawn Condon , a resident of Old Town , roughly 12 mile north of Bangor , toldWABI newsthat he was the person who had found Peggy Sue in the BJ ’s parking spate . Just as BJ ’s management had suspect , Condon adopt that the three legged pupper was an abandon stray , so he decided to give her a full base . He convey her back to Old Town and care for her for two weeks , until his dog groomer recognized piddling Peggy Sue from the Maine Lost Dog Recovery ’s posts .
" She said that she had seen that dog on Facebook , " Condon told the news duct . " So , she bring in it up and showed us the motion picture of her and it was like , ' Yep , that ’s her . ' So , we take the earpiece number down and we shout out Amanda and told Amanda that we had her dog . "
felicitous end like this just help illustrate thepowers of social mediawhen it ’s used for the correct reasons . If you wind up miss a darling , do n’t blank out about reach out to groups like the Maine Lost Dog Recovery in your field . And if you happen to find a wandering doggo , check that to strain out to your local shelter and animal control resources and get them know — you never know who might be looking !
