Lost and Found

Yesterday was an amazing day.  I love it when something good happens that is so totally unexpected.

Okay, let me start at the beginning.  A couple weeks ago, a good friend of mine posted a picture of a Lahsa Apso dog.  She stated that he was a lost dog that had showed up on her doorstep.  He has no collar and she hadn't seen any pictures posted around the neighborhood.  Unfortunately, they already had a dog and didn't need another one due to the very busy schedule that their family had.  My hubby took pity on him and told them we would take him.  He figured since Elisabeth had her kitty and Max had his dog, this one could be Ethan's. 

So that Friday night, they brought him over to us.  Our Jack Russell, Charlie, is a friendly dog and they started playing immediately.  Since Will and Max named Charlie, it was up to Ethan and me to name this one.  We started throwing out different names and finally narrowed it down to seven and then down to one ... Ethan and I determined his new name would be Oliver.  To us it just seemed to fit.

Well, fast forward to this past Monday (October 24) ...  I found myself on a local Lost and Found facebook page.  Of course being curious, I started looking through all the pictures.  I came to about the tenth picture and I was amazed to see a picture of a little dog that looked JUST like Oliver.  The description said that he was lost in the same neighborhood as my friend and ironically, his name was Charlie.  I call my hubby to see what he thought but he wasn't at his desk.  I left a message for him and yelled to the kids to come look.  We were all four intently staring at this tiny picture trying to determine if it was him or not, when hubby called me back.  He looked at the picture and agreed with us.  It just had to be him.

I call the number that was listed with the posting but didn't get an answer.  I left a message and waited.  It wasn't long before I received a return call.  I told her that I thought I had her dog.  We talked a few moments, trying to determine if he was or not.  I got the idea to send her a picture via a text.  But the picture was slow going through, so I told her to just come look at him.  If it was her dog then awesome but if not, that was okay too.

The picture text must have gone through a few moments after we hung up because she called back crying.  She was so emotional telling me that it was indeed her lost dog.  She was so so happy that someone had found her beloved little dog.

I made sure that our Charlie was outside when she arrived so that there wouldn't be any disruption when she saw her dog for the first time in over a month.  The reunion between them was wonderful.  We opened the door and Oliver/Charlie went right to her.  She bent down and loved on him with such overwhelming emotion!!  We determined that he had been gone for 10 days when my friend found him and then we had had him since then. 

When she and her son left cradling Charlie, it was such a wonderful feeling.  I was thrilled to know that he had been reunited with his brother, Cookie and the family who loved him so very much.

What an amazing and awesome day!!