Pets Without Borders

The Hitchiking Dog

In addition to saving lives, transport volunteers can also bring families back together! Here's a case where a couple was able to help out a worried family, just by getting behind the wheel.

In Kanab, Utah, a couple named Mike and Jo Neil lost their sweet dog Tizzy. It turns out that this little guy had the adventure of a lifetime. As far as we can tell, he simply went hitchhiking! What we know for sure is that he'd run away from home and was picked up by a truck driver.

The truck driver, thinking the dog might be a stray, we suppose, decided to bring little Tizzy all the way to his next stop, 500 miles away, in Tucson, Arizona, before dropping him off at the humane society there.

The good news for this furry traveler is that the humane society called Best Friends, and Best Friends figured out that Tizzy was Mike and Jo Neil's missing dog. The question was... How was anyone going to get him home all the way from Tucson?

Word went out to members of the Best Friends Network in Arizona, and when Kristin and Mark Mathews of Scottsdale, Arizona, received the the e-mail, they shrugged and thought, "Hey, we were planning a trip that way anyway!" So they headed down to Tucson, and back on the road went Tizzy.

From the Neils' point of view, two complete strangers arrived in Kanab, all the way from Tucson, just to deliver their darling dog back into their arms.

That's what it means when the Best Friends Network says animal lovers can lend a hand to other animal lovers... anywhere in the country.

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