A Chicago-area family was reunited with their beloved sheepadoodle, Charlie, on Sunday, two days after he vanished while tied outside a local business.
It took a team of friends, neighbors, reporters, police, and other assorted good Samaritans using modern technology to make the miracle reunion happen.
Erin Franzblau told reporters she left Charlie tied just outside her children’s day care center in Lincoln Park around 6:00 p.m. Friday while she picked up her little ones.
“[I] really deeply regret this, but I tied him up outside the day care and thought it was safe,” she toldWGN-TV.
“There was a big window where people could see him, and he was right there.”
She elaborated forWLS-TV, “We messed up in that I was running from a long day at work. My husband was out of town in Denver. I was alone picking up three kids: two toddlers and a baby. And, I was rushing. I tied him up outside the day care where there’s a window, where everyone can see him.”
She was only gone a few minutes, Franzblau said.
And when she got back out, she was distraught to find that Charlie was nowhere in sight.
“Surveillance footage later showed someone in a dark hoodie unleashing Charlie and taking him away from the area,” People magazinereported.
The woman in the footage was asking passersby, “Whose dog is this? Whose dog is this?” Franzblau told reporters. “She was kind to him, but he was shaking.”
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