‘Christmas miracle’: Senior Chihuahua missing for 3 years reunited with B.C. family | 24CA News
A Vancouver household is celebrating a “Christmas miracle” as they’re reunited with their beloved senior Chihuahua who has been lacking for years.
Delilah, who’s now 13 years outdated, vanished from her homeowners’ again yard three years in the past.
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The pup was discovered shivering in a field exterior a Richmond Trail Appliances retailer final Wednesday, in response to the BC SPCA.
“The poor little thing was in horrible condition,” Richmond SPCA assistant supervisor Emma Michel stated in a media launch.
“She was emaciated, dehydrated, she appeared to be partially deaf and blind, she had no teeth, she had suspected frost bite on the ears, and she was anemic.”
Staff bought the canine fast medical consideration, and posted her photograph on Facebook within the hopes of discovering her proprietor.
One of the SPCA’s Facebook followers thought she acknowledged the canine, recalled a lady in search of an analogous misplaced Chihuahua a number of years in the past, and put two and two collectively.
Not lengthy afterward, Delilah’s proprietor reached out to the SPCA by e-mail to say it may be hers. The SPCA rapidly set to work to confirm that the particular person was certainly Delilah’s proprietor.
“We were in shock. We asked her to provide us with more information, and we were just praying that this really was her dog,” Michel stated.
“We have no idea how little Delilah ended up in that box, alone and cold, but we were just so thrilled that we could reunite her with her family. Our whole team was there for the reunion and there were a lot of tears.”
Michel stated that regardless that Delilah is seeing and listening to impaired, she nonetheless crawled out of her mattress when she realized her household had arrived.
The misplaced canine’s household was equally joy-struck, she added.
“She is so sweet and we are just thrilled that Delilah will be spending Christmas at home, safe and warm, and that she will get to live out her last years with the family she knows and loves.”
The BC SPCA stated that Delilah’s medical payments have been coated by donations to the group. You can be taught extra about donating to the BC SPCA right here.
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