Some road trips end with a flat tire and a bad gas station sandwich. This one ended with a family in Alabama getting their dog back after seven years of thinking she was gone for good, and honestly, it’s the kind of story that makes even the most jaded car guy set down his coffee for a minute.
The Jones family adopted a puppy named Copper when she was just four weeks old, reported WESH. A few months later, she vanished, and the family believes she was stolen along with one of her littermates. They spent about a week driving around the neighborhood looking for her, checking every yard and side street, before finally accepting she was probably gone.
What they didn’t know was that Copper had ended up hundreds of miles away in Port Orange, Florida, a trip that would’ve taken most of a day behind the wheel if someone had simply loaded her in a car and driven her there. However she made the journey, she spent years living rough, far from home and far from anyone who knew her name…