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July 15, 2008

Rocco rolled: NYC Beagle found in Georgia

Rocco, a beagle that disappeared from from a New York City yard five years ago, has been found 850 miles away in Georgia.

Randy Durrence, the supervisor at the Liberty County Animal Control in Hinesville, Ga., told the New York Post that someone dropped off the pooch on July 5. A microchip embedded under Rocco's skin helped trace him to his family in Queens -- Jorge and Cristina Villacis.

The couple's daughter, Natalie, who was five years old when Rocco disappeared, was ecstatic.

She told the New York Post: "I cried hysterically -- just like I did when they told me he was lost. I felt like I was in a dream."

Durrence says the shelter reunites many families with their pets but "it's unheard of" after so many years.

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Wow! What an AMAZING story! It's truly heart-warming, and a simple miracle!

Posted by: cheese | July 17, 2008 4:46 PM

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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