After more than a year of wandering the United States alone, a dog was finally found by its owners… more than 1,500 miles from home. Zeppelin, a three-year-old German Shepherd mix, disappeared from the family home in Sacramento, California, in October 2021, his owner Sandra O’Neill told NPR.
The family suspected that he befriended construction workers who worked near his home, and that one of them decided to stay with him. “I had no proof, but I thought someone fell under his spell and just took him home,” the American said.
But 14 months later, when she no longer expected it at all, a woman who arrived from the town of Louisburg in Kansas (more than 2,500 km from her home) to announce to Sonia O’Neill that she had found Zeppelin in her garden . She had taken the animal to the vet, who was able to find the happy owners thanks to the dog’s chip.
“I was gobsmacked, just shocked when they told me that,” Sonia O’Neill told the channel.
Since then, Zeppelin has become a bit of a local celebrity and a press conference is scheduled for his return to California, where he will be repatriated by car. In Sacramento he will be able to find the litter of puppies that he had fathered shortly before his disappearance. Two of them were supported by his family.
Source: BFM TV
