Posted on 12/19/2022 10:20:44 AM PST by BenLurkin
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — After searching for her dog for over a year, a West Sacramento woman is going to have him back home in time for Christmas.
Fourteen months after looking for her dog, Sandra O’Neil received a call about the whereabouts of her beloved companion, who was found approximately 1,600 miles away.
“When they told me he was Kansas, I was shocked,” O’Neil said.
Zeppelin, a German shepherd mix, went missing in October 2021.
A woman in the rural town of Louisburg, Kansas found Zeppelin on her property, took him in her home for the night and took him to a veterinarian’s office the next morning. It’s unknown how Zeppelin ended up in Kansas, but the veterinarian clinic discovered through his microchip that he was miles away from home.
Before he went missing, O’Neil said Zeppelin would go to an area near her house that was full of construction workers. Those workers would often give him food, water and treats. O’Neil said she would either pick up Zeppelin or he’ll return home on his own. One day, Zeppelin was nowhere to be found.
The night before she got the call from the veterinarian’s office in Kansas, O’Neil said she drove by the area he was last seen, wishing for him to come home.
O’Neil owned Zeppelin for 18 months prior to him going missing. Zepplin is about three years old. She named her beloved dog after the band Led Zeppelin.
Zeppelin began his trip back home from Kansas on Sunday. He is being driven back to West Sacramento by a woman named Mary Hastings, who volunteered to take him back home after she visited her daughter in Kansas.
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Zeppelin is going to California with an aching in his heart?...
Somehow my dog ended up 25 miles away in the next town after sneaking out of the fence. He only had an hour or two to get that far. I was quite confused and thought it was a joke until, sure enough, there he was hanging out in someone’s shop when I drove up.
I’m a very responsible pet owner and I raise Treeing Walker Coon Hounds and Plott Hounds for fun and little profit.
It happens. Our dogs are tagged to the teeth with phone numbers and addresses embedded in collars. They are also humanely tattooed.
Once in a while one will stray. Trust me, they’re not ALL the sharpest tools in the shed! ;)
I wouldn’t be so hard on the owner. It’s awful to lose a pet; it’s happened to us a few times through the years, but we got the dogs back. No one would do this on purpose; your heart sinks to your knees when it does happen. :(
On he sweeps with the threshing oar
His only goal will be the western shore
Ah ey ahhhh ah!
Ah ey ahhhh ah!
This dog could have gone home if he’d wanted to. she didn’t so she didn’t.
“Even the dogs are trying to GTFO of California”
Poor Zeppelin, now he’s Going to California.
Looking to buy a stairway to doggie heaven.
Who said anything about chipping people? I recommended it for pets.
Nice to read a story with an upcoming happy reunion for Zeppelin and Sandra. We need more stories like this.
So much for the dog went to live on a farm story.
Most people are chipped these days. They carry a modern cell phone.
Lol. They led Zeppelin astray.
There’s no place like home. :-)
Lighten up. When I grew up nearly all dogs ran free. We even loved our dogs too. We didn’t freak out and post in Facebook that a dog was walking down the street.
I was never a big fan of Zeppelin but I did buy their album with “Black Dog” when it was released.
That said, “Going to California” is probably my favorite these daze.
I did not get to have a dog when I was a kid, but I got a white rabbit from a great uncle whom I named Lord Zeppelin.
I meant people in general.
One thing leads to another...
That’s how they premarket chips for chumps. Look it saved my pet=it’s for the children.
Ridiculous argument. Really, voluntarily chipping pets will lead to mandatory chipping of people.
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