I had my Akitas both microchiped on base in NC as it was the rule for bringing pets on bases though I never thought he'd run off. After bringing him home to FL, my plans to stay with a friend fell through and I had to stay with my parents while the dogs stayed at my dad's warehouse in crates when I wasn't with them. About three days in to the one week stay, I came in to find his office door unlocked and Mr Kubert's cage open. I thought, "Ok he got out and he's wandering around the huge warehouse." Nope, he had gotten out of his cage and opened two locked doors and, as I later found out, ran around the complex looking for me. He made it all the way to a major highway before a women who was scared of dogs saw him and felt so bad for him that she "lassoed" him with a bungee cord and pulled him into her lexus using her leftover Applebee's to keep him busy on the short ride to her house.
He went missing about four o'clock, she had him by six o'clock, and if my HomeAgain info had been updated I would have had my Ku by seven but I hadn't. When I called to update it the next morning they told me whare my boy was. So I drove over there and brought water and some dog food thinking he'd be hungry and scared. When I got there, my happy pooch ran to me and whine-howled in that weird Akita way the whole time I hugged him. The nice woman informed me that she never had a dog and didn't have time to pick up food so she fed him a frozen steak and because he whined out side, she let him sleep in her guest bed. So my poor, poor terrified Mr. Ku had spent the night eating steak and sleeping on a queen sized bed while I spent it crying and calling for him. If I had updated with HomeAgain I could have saved my self a lot of heartache. Thank you HomeAgain, you'll never know what Ku means to me or how great finding him was.

Posted By: Amanda, Bradenton, FL - 2/12/2009
Pet Name: Baku  Species: Dog  Breed: Akita  Sex: Male