Missing dog’s owner says ‘little prayer’ in CA. The next day, she got call from Kansas
Sandra O’Neil’s beloved dog Zeppelin went missing from her Sacramento home over a year ago. She says she never stopped looking for him or gave up hope that he would make it home.
She found herself driving by the last place she saw him and praying for his return, she told KCTV.
“I said, ‘I hope you make it home someday,’” she told the outlet. “The very next day, I got a call. They found him.”
A woman in a rural Kansas town had found Zeppelin in a pasture on her property and took him into a vet’s office to scan for a microchip the next day, KCTV reported. His microchip indicated he was thousands of miles from home.
“When they told me he was in Kansas, I was shocked,” O’Neil told KTXL.
The German Shepherd mix had gone missing in October 2021. Before he went missing, she told the outlet Zeppelin would visit construction workers near her house who would give him food, water and treats. She told KTXL she would either pick him up or he’d return home on his own, but one day he didn’t turn up at all.
Now he’s on his way back home again, just in time for the holidays. The story of Zeppelin’s journey caught the attention of another California woman as she was visiting her daughter in Kansas, according to CBS News.
“I got a little tear from that,” Mary Hastings told the outlet about hearing Zeppelin’s story. She offered to drive him back to California with her.
“It’s ok ma’am,” she told the dog’s owner, according to CBS News. “You’ll have him by Christmas.”
This story was originally published December 20, 2022 at 5:55 PM with the headline "Missing dog’s owner says ‘little prayer’ in CA. The next day, she got call from Kansas."
