Mochie somehow escaped his house and spent 120 solar day in the shelter before his owner ’s girl escort his visibility .

An eagle - eyed relative helped this North Carolina woman reunite with her dog Mochie , who ’d been missing for a twelvemonth before she saw him again at an animal shelter 200 miles forth from their home .

Mochie , a 5 - year - oldhoundmix , escaped from Emerald Tinae ’s Wilmington , N.C. , home about a yr ago , but on March 3 , she obtain to see him again during a reunification full of wagging poop , candy kiss , and nestle .

brindle dog laying in grass, reunited with owner after a year

Photo: Mary Swift / Adobe Stock

" When [ Guilford County Animal Services ] scream me on the phone to tell me the microchip was mine … I was already crying , " Tinae toldWGHP .

The escape artist dog—“He’ll opened threshold , windows . He ’ll get out . When he desire out , he ’ll get out , " Tinae told the TV place — disappeared last year , but his mom was n’t sure what happened to him , even wonder if he was stolen .

His whereabouts were unknown until November when Guilford County Animal Services enamor him and brought him to its facility in Greensboro . They scan hismicrochip , but its information was out of date , WGHP reported .

He stick in the shelter for months—120 days all told — before Tinae ’s girl saw his borrowing pic and profile online . Tinae was before long on her way to Greensboro .

" The fact that we were able to reunify him [ with ] someone so far away … to someone who does n’t go in this county is really groovy , " Kendelle Federico , the shelter ’s foster coordinator , tell apart WGHP .

This story dish out as another significant moral : Yes , microchips are unbelievably important for our dogs , butkeeping them updatedwith right selective information is , too .