After six years apart, the family of a Yorkie that went missing in South Florida was reunited with her dog.
When Rocsi showed up on the doorway of Broward County Animal Care, a pompano Beach good Samaritan called to report her missing. After being deployed, an animal control officer scanned her and discovered a microchip.
This past weekend, Kendrick Range, one of her owners, traveled to South Florida to get his dog.
“It’s been a long journey,” Kendrick Range stated. “It was really unexpected, from the point that we lost her, and we did everything we could to try and find her up until this point.”
When Rocsi, a 13-year-old Yorkie, was 7 years old, she vanished from Kendrick and Jheannette Range’s Fort Lauderdale home.
“We put the kids down, put our stuff down, and then went back out, she was gone,” Jheannette stated.
The Ranges never gave up looking for the Yorkie.
“We walked around the streets, calling her name, putting up flyers. We did pretty much everything that we could do, and we just – we got no response,” Jheannette stated.
It couldn’t have come at a worse time. The Range family was due to relocate to Georgia in two weeks. They believed that they would not see their beloved Rocsi ever again.
Years later, they received a miracle in the form of an unexpected call from Broward County Animal Care.
“There was a call about two abandoned dogs about a home in Pompano Beach,” Doug Brightwell, the director of Broward County Animal Care stated. “The Pompano [Beach] animal control officer went out and scanned him, and found a microchip.”
The microchip identified the Range clan. Rosci was indeed their cherished pet, as Brightwell confirmed when they received images of the puppy.
“And we booked plane tickets immediately,” Jheannette stated.
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“It’s a much more uncommon occurrence to reunite a dog or a cat that has been lost after such a long number of years,” Doug Brightwell stated.
It was quite a loss, according to Jheannette. However, this family is now complete once more. The Ranges hope that by sharing their experience, other people will be inspired to microchip and register their animals.
