Lost Long Beach Dog Daisy Reunited with Best Friend

Today would have been one month since Daisy the Boxer-Pit Bull bolted out of her Long Beach "Dad's" car and vanished. Since then there'd been only one report of a sighting: a caller said a dog looking like Daisy was struck by a car.

That turned out to be blissfully false for Man and his best friend Monday after their unexpected reunion ended a month-long heartache.

Daisy with the brindle coat heard a nearby car's engine backfire around 8th and Locust in downtown Long Beach Dec. 13, which sent her fleeing from her driver's passenger seat. She'd been in a car accident Thanksgiving Day and remained rattled by loud sounds. A friend of her family contacted Belmont Shore Patch, which posted her photo and a story in hopes she'd be found alive and well.

And so she was on Monday.

A Long Beach man named Eric practiced his daily visits to the animal shelter's website with photos of lost animals, and Sunday, there was his Daisy. She'd lost 15 pounds but was still recognizable. The shelter is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays but a kind staffer empathetically responded to Eric's pleas to at least see his lost dog.

"Daisy was in the Long Beach Animal Control shelter, released to her Daddy by Louise Dubois,' his friend, Denise Penn, e-mailed with the accompanying photo. Daisy had been picked up Saturday around Long Beach Boulevard and Willow, after also being seen at 4^th and Junipero, 7^th and Cherry, and Anaheim and Temple.

After Daisy went MIA last month, there was mostly silence about her whereabouts, despite her wearing a tag with her details microchipped in the event of just such a situation. Upon reopening the shelter likely would have found Daisy's home thanks to the chip.

Desite weight loss she was otherwise healthy, and with one loooooong bath, Daisy was back making the coffee house scene by late Monday (see photo).