Lost Brooklyn Dog Found on Long Island!

Awww: A dog that went missing from Sunset Park on Monday afternoon was found 60 miles away on Long Island the next day. Newsday reports the chihuahua named Boy was reunited with his tearful and grateful owner yesterday.

Holbrook residents Dino and Teri Vassino found the pup on Tuesday and thought it belonged to neighbor Sue Pierce, whose family also has a Chihuahua. But they weren't missing a dog, so, per Newsday, "Pierce took him to a Selden animal hospital, which found an identification microchip embedded between Boy's shoulders." She called the owner, Arc Liu, who was thrilled that his dog was found. Yay for pet microchips!

Liu said his dog went missing when he visited a friend's fenced-in backyard and suspects someone picked up the dog "and went the wrong way." As for Boy's health, Pierce said he seems good, "except his feet on the underside seem to be cut up."

In January, a Colorado trucker was reunited with his dog that had run away at a Hudson Valley rest stop. And microchip your pet!

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By Jen Chung in News on June 5, 2008 2:37 PM

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sonyactivision

But is Long Island anywhere near Brooklyn?

CarrollGardener

Brooklyn IS on Long Island

Art Stewel

Maybe the dog got on the LIRR at Atlantic Ave. - kind of like those Far Rock pidgeons?

MFer

Goes to show that dogs are stupid. Dogs are a delicacy in some parts of the world, for good reason.

Spirit of 76

You know, technically Brooklyn is just the western tip of Long Island. It's not like the dog would have to swim or use an EZ Pass to get there.

Technically, yes, but nobody in Brooklyn or Queens says they live in Long Island. And I'd like to see you do 60 miles on foot in a day. Although that's highly suspect, too. The dognapping ideas above look quite possible.

stereotypical

Shut the fuck up sidenote!

roccos

Soo glad he got his dog back! The tears - I love him.

carl_sagan

Yea, but did Shadow and Sassy make it too?

esquared

Lost Ohio Bitches found in Stuyvesant Town.

JenChungsBaby

You know, technically Brooklyn is just the western tip of Long Island. It's not like the dog would have to swim or use an EZ Pass to get there.

Art Stewel

In other pet news...aggrieved neighbors to dog barking nuisance steal dog, drive 60 miles to Holbrook, and ditch the animal.

Jen S

My cat could kick that dog's tail.

sonyactivision

Chihuahuas are a dangerous, feral breed. Everyone involved needs a painful round of rabies shots.

famdoc

dog was kidnapped. it didn't travel 60 miles on its own four legs.

moocowtoo

robot dog.

JRod5417

Slow day or not, I appreciate a story with a happy ending every now and then. I only wish the dog could talk so we know how he got to Long Island from Sunset Park.

PathToWisdom

We all need one.

You never know, you might end up in China

in the middle of the earthquake or worse,

dead in a room without your id and wallet.

Or worse, you think you are Superman, but you

cannot remember how to fly or where you put your

ugly underwear.

Who can verify your identity ?