Reunited with lost dog after decade apart
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TRACY Dove assumed the worst after her 1-year-old dog Charlie disappeared in 2006. Days without the animal turned into years, and Dove figured the brown-and-white pointer was dead.
Then, last week, Dove’s phone rang: Charlie had been found alive near the south Alabama town of Brewton. A veterinary clinic tracked her down using a microchip that Dove had implanted in the dog when it was young.
“I was shocked, overwhelmed. I cried,” Dove said. “It’s amazing.”
No one knows where the dog has been for the last decade, but Charlie has a gray muzzle now and a cancerous tumor in his chest. Charlie will undergo surgery at a veterinary clinic in Mobile as soon as next week, and Dove plans to bring him home as soon as possible afterward.
“It will be a lengthy road for him, but he’ll be home,” said Dove, who lives near Birmingham in Corner and works as a dental assistant.
Dove was living in Cullman with her then 8-year-old son when Charlie disappeared a decade ago. Charlie is a German shorthaired pointer, a breed favored by hunters, and Dove believes someone stole him from an enclosure outside the house.
“It’s an expensive hunting dog. We just kept him as a pet,” said Dove.
Donations from an online fundraiser will cover the cost of Charlie’s cancer surgery.
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