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Missing Black Lab Returns To Family After She Was Gone 10 Years Ten years ago, black Lab mix Abby ran away from home. Now, she has been reunited with her owner Debra Suierveld, who tells NPR's Scott Simon that Abby has fit right back in with the family.Heard onToggle more optionsA dog named Abby is back from the dead. Abby, a black Lab mix, wandered away from her home in Apollo, Pa., outside Pittsburgh, 10 years ago. Abby's owner, Debra Suierveld, and her children looked for their dog but couldn't find her, accepted her loss and had her declared deceased. And then, 10 years later, they from an animal shelter. "They said, 'We have your dog,' " Suierveld tells NPR's Scott Simon. "And I said, 'That's impossible.' " The shelter told her they had a female black Lab mix. Suierveld, who had gotten other dogs since Abby's disappearance — including another black Lab — said her dog was at home. But the shelter had run the dog's identification microchip — and her name was Abby, they said. Suierveld was shocked. "I was like, 'Abby?' I said, 'I haven't seen her for 10 years,' " Suierveld says. Once Abby rejoined their family, it was almost as if she had never left. "She settled right it, I'd say," Suierveld says. "The first night, I have other dogs, and they were all lying in the family room like they'd been spending the last few years together."Suierveld says Abby is probably the smartest dog she has had. The other night she heard Abby in the kitchen, tapping on her bowl asking for more water. Suierveld's daughter, Carly, was 12 years old when Abby left. Abby was her favorite, Suierveld says. Carly taught Abby all her tricks — and she still does them. Now 22, Carly is coming home from college later this month to reunite with Abby. When her mom called her with the news, Carly couldn't believe it. "She was laughing so hard that by the end of the laugh she was crying," Suierveld says. Suierveld says she doesn't know who kept her all these years, but she doesn't blame them. "She's just such a sweetheart," she says. "I just wish they had checked her for a chip because we would have had her back so much sooner."Sponsor Message

Missing Black Lab Returns To Family After She Was Gone 10 Years Ten years ago, black Lab mix Abby ran away from home. Now, she has been reunited with her owner Debra Suierveld, who tells NPR's Scott Simon that Abby has fit right back in with the family.Heard onToggle more optionsA dog named Abby is back from the dead. Abby, a black Lab mix, wandered away from her home in Apollo, Pa., outside Pittsburgh, 10 years ago. Abby's owner, Debra Suierveld, and her children looked for their dog but couldn't find her, accepted her loss and had her declared deceased. And then, 10 years later, they from...

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