Woman reunited with missing dog after seeing her picture on a beer can
'Gosh this looks like my dog. I really think this might be my dog,' Monica Mathis said.
A woman was reunited with her missing dog after seeing her picture on a beer can.
Monica Mathis’s mixed breed named Hazel had vanished three years ago in Iowa when she was just a puppy.
Hazel remained missing for years until Mathis, 33, discovered a picture of a dog that looked identical to Hazel as she scrolled through Facebook last week.
The photo was she saw was on a post from Motorworks Brewing, a brewery in Bradenton, Florida that was advertising four new beer cans with pictures of adoptable dogs. The promotion, which was widely shared online, promised to donate proceeds to build a new county animal shelter.
‘(I thought) Gosh this looks like my dog. I really think this might be my dog,’ Mathis, who lives in Minnesota, told NBC.
Mathis called the Manatee County Animal Shelter to ask about the dog, who they reportedly named ‘Day Day.’
Shelter workers were able to verify that Day Day was actually Mathis’s dog Hazel, who had a license and microchip, although the contact information listed for her was outdated.
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No one knows how Hazel made her way from Iowa to Florida – a journey more than 1,200 miles long – but shelter workers were determined to bring Hazel home.
Hans Wohlgefahrt, the Manatee County shelter’s outreach and events specialist, drove Hazel from Florida to St Paul, Minnesota, a three-day trip that finally ended with a warm reunion Friday.
‘I feel like I’ve gotten the greatest gift in the world to have her home. I was crying. I was ecstatic. I was shaking,’ Mathis said.
Wohlgefahrt did not just bring Hazel, who he said was ‘such a good little road buddy,’ but he also brought some gifts including beer cans with Hazel’s photo.
‘Really, this is a simple mission. It’s to get a lost dog home to its owner. That’s what this road trip is all about,’ he said.
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Mathis also recently bought Hazel some new toys and a new leash, as well as the same dog food she was eating in the shelter to help her get acclimated to her new home.
‘This animal is part of my family, and I’m so grateful to get her back,’ she said.