Washington, September 7 (ANI): A 3-year-old black labrador travelled 500 miles to reach his home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, after his owner left him at his father's place in Winchester, Virginia.
The journey began in January, when owner Mark Wessells could no longer have Buck at his home and subsequently relocated it.
When Wessells learned that Buck was missing from his father's house, he was devastated.
"I thought he was gone forever," People magazine quoted him as telling Carolina's WPDE News.
As luck would have it, Buck turned up - several months later and some 500 miles away - back in South Carolina, where Good Samaritan Brett Gallagher found him wandering close to his house and took him in.
When Gallagher, who planned to keep the dog, took Buck to Myrtle Beach's Grand Strand Animal Hospital on August 31 for shots, veterinarian Dr. Amanda Thomas discovered a microchip.
A simple click revealed that Wessells, who lives a few miles away from the hospital, was the dog's owner, and Thomas contacted him right away.
"He couldn't get off the phone fast enough, crying," Thomas said.
Wessells reportedly raced over to retrieve his dog.
"He definitely recognized me instantly. It's just crazy he made it down here on his own," he said.
No one knows exactly how the labrador made it back, but Thomas credits Buck's keen sense of smell.
"A dog's sense of smell is pretty incredible," she said.
"As we know from search and rescue dogs, they can track people who are in enclosed cars from the grass along highways. [Buck] traveled a pretty far distance to come back here," she added. (ANI)
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