Mother and son traveled hundreds of miles to reunite Piper with her old family.
When Becca Brown’s husband, a member of the U.S. Air Force, was deployed to Germany in 2018, the family of five knew they would have to move to Europe, but they couldn’t take their dog with them.
Piper, a three-year-old blue heeler and Labrador, adored her family, and her humans adored her too, but they knew they would have to leave her behind.
As much as they wanted to take Piper, they didn’t want to put the dog’s new family in a situation where they had to take the dog away from them, making them sad.
“It didn’t have to be temporary,” Becca explained to the Pensacola News Journal. “We didn’t want someone to fall in love with it and then have to take it away three years later.”
So they arranged for Piper to move to Kansas with a man she seemed to get along well with.
The man continued to send updates about his relationship with Piper, and the family was confident their dog was enjoying her newfound time.
We can all imagine their surprise when a veterinarian’s office in Oklahoma called them to report that Piper had been found on the streets.
“We were mostly stunned,” Becca explained. “We were like, ‘Oh.’ wow. This was not at all what we expected. “They were in good condition last we heard…we weren’t expecting this.”
Carla Olmstead’s son had found the dog in the street a month earlier, so she jumped into his car and refused to get out.
Piper seemed to get along well with everyone in the family, including cats and dogs, and the Olmsteds fell in love with the dog immediately.
“She is the sweetest, most polite dog we have ever met.” She was gentle with our cats and dogs. “She adores people,” Olmstead wrote on Facebook.
This is how they concluded that Piper belonged to someone who adored her and trained her well.
They discovered it had a chip and tried to contact the owner, but were unsuccessful the first time. When they tried again a few weeks later, they found Piper’s history with Brown.
The Brown family was thrilled to be reunited with their old dog, and the Olmsteads were happy to take a beach trip to Florida in order to return Piper to her former owners, who now live in Pensacola.
Olmstead shared updates on Piper’s journey to reunite with the Brown family, as well as a video of the dog reuniting with her old owners. There are triplets in the family, so there will be plenty of opportunities to play!
While she was shy at first and missed the people who found her, she gradually adjusted to her new old life and was able to be happy again!
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