Lost dog returned home after five years

Tootsie the Dachshund went missing from his home in Pleasantville, Penns. nearly five years ago and his owner had since given up the search to find him. It wasn’t until Elba Arguello received a letter in the mail from The Animal Rescue League of Pennsylvania, that she ever imagined she would see her dog again.

Tootsie was found wandering the streets of a Pittsburgh suburb, according to pressofAtlanticCity.com, when the rescue organization took him back to their shelter thinking he was a stray. It was there that they discovered an implanted microchip telling where he belonged.

According to Arguello she had purchased Tootsie from a mall pet store where the microchip had been implanted.

The reunion took place on Monday in Harrisburg, Penns. which is about half-way between Pittsburgh and Pleasantville. According to the Arguello family Tootsie didn’t recognize his old family right away but when he was taken to his old home with familiar scents he fit in right away, and settled in hopefully for the remainder of his life.

View the video below to see Tootsie at the Animal Rescue Shelter before he was returned to his family.

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