“To steal a dog, I mean, I can’t even imagine why someone would do that,” Pittinger told KING 5 news.

Luckily, four days after starting a massive Facebook campaign and plastering “lost” fliers all over town, Macy was found and returned home.

Elizabeth Resendiz who lives 14 miles away from Pittinger’s home found the Pit bull running lose in a park. She recognized the pet from the shared Facebook posts and scared the dog would run into traffic and get killed, Resendiz picked up the 40 lbs. pooch and carried her home.

“I took off my jacket hoping Maci wouldn’t bite me and I wrapped my jacket around her because she looked very scared and cold,” said the rescuer. “But Maci was actually very obedient.”

The kind woman contacted Pittinger, gave her the good news and arranged to have Macy get back home where she belongs.

Macy’s owner is forever grateful that a kind stranger helped the dog get out of harms way and back home. “I owe so much to her,” said Pittinger. “As soon as I got Macy home, she ran to my husband and just curled up in his arms. And has been by our sides ever since.”

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The dog went missing from Espinosa’s horse farm in Central Florida last April, and since the dog’s disappearance, the worried pet owner never stopped searching.

Espinosa posted fliers and checked on leads himself, but from all the lost dogs he met during his search, none of them were his beloved Freda. The desperate man even hired a private investigator to help find his dog.

“I can’t tell you how many calls that I’ve had that people said they have my dog, but then to find out it [only] looks like her,” the pet owner told WSVN.

With the passing months Espinosa’s hopes dwindled, but every night he said a prayer for his dog.

“I’ve thought about [her] every night,” he said. “I have her leash right next to my bed, and I say my prayers, and I hold onto it, and I say, ‘Get her home.’”

On Oct. 26, Espinosa got a call from Jenny, a woman who lives 197 miles away in Minneola, Fla. She left a voicemail saying she had found Freda and when the pet owner called back to verify the identity of the dog, he couldn’t believe what he heard.

Upon finding the dog Jenny called police and was asked to take the dog a vet. There, Freda was scanned for a microchip and one was found, that’s how the Good Samaritan was certain she had found Espinosa’s dog.

The next day Freda was reunited with her owner and the two couldn’t be any happier to be back together.

“You got lots of stories to tell us. Yes, you do,” Espinosa told his dog.

The pet owner might not know for sure where Freda spent the last six months, but he is glad she is back home for good.

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The pet owners are from Fort Collins, Wyo., and in August, they took their dog camping about 60 miles west of Laramie, but according to a Coloradoan.com report, the pet ran away and got lost after getting spooked by gunfire.

The Whitsitts searched for their dog but didn’t find him. They enlisted the help of family members and contacted the local humane society to report their missing pet, but in the end the heart broken couple had to return home without Hank.

For two months, the Whitsitts hoped to received calls with sightings of their dog, but other than one call from a hunter who though he had spotted the dog, the couple had no news of their missing dog.

Knowing  the area was roamed by coyotes, mountain lions and even bears, the Whitsitts believed there was little hope for Hank to be alive. Three weeks after losing Hank a new four legged member joined the family to try to bring happiness back into the empty household.

Two days short of 60 days since Hank’s disappearance, the Larimer Humane Society called asking to get Hank’s registration renewed. That’s when Tiffany decided to officially declared Hank dead, but just 72 hours later, their beloved pet was found.

Home Again, the company with whom Hank’s microchip had been registered called to inform the pet owners that the dog had been found walking along a highway, just an hour-long drive from French Creek. The Whitsitts didn’t want to get their hopes up because they didn’t believe Hank could have survived the wilderness all this long, but they agreed to meet the dog identified as Hank. When they met, tears of joy gushed out because it was true, Hank was alive.

The pet was taken to a vet. He lost about 20 lbs and needed grooming desperately, but the veterinarian who examined Hank ran tests and said he had been surviving on rabbits. His hunting instincts and the few extra pounds he had on when he got lost helped him survive the wilderness.

The Whitsitts are happy their family is complete. Tiffany, Travis, Hank and the new Australian shepherd puppy named Gus.

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