It’s a reunion that seemed impossible. Eighteen months ago, Richard Brower thought he had lost his best friend forever. The inseparable tandem of man and German shepherd were forced apart, when Dozer was stolen from Brower’s backyard. Brower spent a year and half looking Dozer, and even had a couple close calls.
“I was searching at least once a week and I was disappointed once, or twice when I thought it was my dog, but it wasn’t,” said Brower.
After a painstaking 18 months, Brower finally decided it was time for a new dog. But little did he know, his first internet search for German shepherds would lead him back to a familiar face.
“The very first thing I saw was a huge picture of dozer, and my heart stopped. I started shivering, went kind of cold. I knew immediately it was him, the way he looked, the cock of his head.”
His dad, being the closest family member to the shelter, went to investigate.
“Richard asked on the phone, ‘What’s he doing?’ and his dad told him he was wagging his tail, then I could tell Richard, on the phone, was in tears,” said Sylvia Giroux of the Claresholm Animal Rescue Society.
Sure enough, it was Dozer. He was taken to CARES after being found running on a highway near Granum. It all set up a teary reunion eighteen months in the making.
“Oh man, he just buried his head right under my arm and just started whining like a baby and shaking,” said Brower. “I lost it at that point. That was it. My best buddy was back and probably the best day of my life. We’re going to be together forever, buddies until the end, just the way it was supposed to be.”
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