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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

This was in our local (phoenix) paper today.  The very short paragraph is 
what made me really laugh ....bobford

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Missing Fla. dog shows up 1,000 miles away in Ill.

Oct. 31, 2008 09:49 AM
Associated Press 

RACINE, Wi. - A Maltese dog named Max is headed home to Florida after he was 
spotted in Chicago - 1,000 miles from where he vanished.

Richard Gonzalez had reported a pet theft after Max disappeared several 
months ago from his daughter's yard in Brandon, Fla.

Gonzalez says he thought that Max would never get far. But the pooch was 
identified in Chicago by an implanted microchip. 
Gonzalez contacted the Northcentral Maltese Rescue to retrieve Max. Rescue 
director Mary Palmer had the dog taken to Racine, Wis., and he will be flown 
Saturday to Florida.

Gonzalez says he has no idea how his dog got so far away. He says he was so 
thrilled about the find that he almost asked Palmer to put Max on the phone.





http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2008/10/31/20081031distantdog31-odd.html