ENID, Okla. (KFOR) — A family pet that went missing from Pensacola, Florida, two years ago was finally found hundreds of miles away in Enid, Oklahoma.
Enid resident and dog groomer Destiny Druse said she found the dog, Andora, near her house and made several posts to look for her owners, with no luck.
She had a friend, who is also a groomer, come to her house with a chip reader and found Andora had a microchip.
“We had scanned her, and it immediately read, and it gave us her name Andora, so at that point we were like ‘Andora,'” Druse said. “Her ears perked up like she hadn’t heard her name in forever.”
No owner information was listed, so they filed a found pet report. Within 10 minutes, her Pensacola owner was calling.
“Where are you all at? And they’re like, ‘We’re in Enid’ and I’m like, ‘Where’s that? I’ve never heard of that before, and they said, Oklahoma,” said Brenna Denmark, Andora’s owner in Florida.
The Denmarks rented a car, drove nearly 14 hours one way, maxed out their credit cards and put everything on hold.
“They wanted their baby home. That’s all that mattered, and I think that’s just amazing,” Druse said. “I’ve never seen somebody love their dog so much.”
They drove through the night and got to Enid after 1 a.m., reuniting with Andora, who was just as happy to see her owners, immediately begging for belly rubs.
Andora is now back home in the Sunshine State.
“She runs all over the place. As soon as she ran in the door, she found where we keep all the dog toys and she picked up her dog toy, and she’s had that ever since. She slept between my bed and my daughter’s last night,” Denmark said.
As for how she ended up all the way in Oklahoma, that’s still a mystery. Her owners believe someone might have stolen her.
“We don’t live in the best neighborhood and there’s a lot of people that like to fight Pitbulls and stuff, so that’s kind of where we thought she ended up,” Denmark said.
They never thought she would end up in Oklahoma. Andora’s story is a reminder of how important it is to microchip pets, which veterinarians recommend.
“Without that, she never would have made it home,” said Autumn Anderson, who scanned Andora for a chip.
Anderson and Druse have shared the story on social media, hoping to bring the community together to help the Denmarks with travel expenses and future vet bills.
The Denmarks say they’ve been shown the Oklahoma Spirit with around $400 in donations.
“It’s really just amazing to see that people do anything because over here (in Pensacola) they really don’t do that,” Denmark said.
The video is courtesy of Destiny Druse.