A dog disappeared from his California family several months ago. By some unknown means, he has turned up three time zones away…in Bay County, Michigan.
MLive reports that on March 22nd, police in Bay County found the Labrador/pit bull mix running loose and put him in the overnight drop box at Animal Control in Bay City. The next morning, staff scanned the dog’s implanted microchip and learned his name was Benny and he had been owned by a military family in Kentucky.
Staff contacted the family, who said they had bought Benny when he was 6 months old but had subsequently given him to another military family stationed on the same base in Kentucky. That family had later moved to Tennessee with Benny, but his original owners did not know how to reach them.
Bay County Animal Control held the dog for the required time, then in mid April posted a Pets-of-the-Week video featuring Benny on its Facebook page. A few days later, Animal Control received a phone call from a resident of Modesto, California, saying Benny was their dog.
The caller said they had adopted Benny from his previous owner in Kentucky, then been stationed in Tennessee and later California, where Benny went missing about three months prior. The chain of custody matched what Benny’s previous owner had said.
On Tuesday, May 21nd, an Animal Control officer is to take Benny to Bishop International Airport in Flint, where he’ll catch a five-hour flight to meet his family in the Golden State.
How Benny wound up in Michigan, of all places, remains a mystery.
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