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ethereal3xp OP t1_jd15l4o wrote

>According to South Carolina's WYFF4, Jennifer, a Travelers Rest resident, was sitting on her porch on a recent rainy evening and spotted a limping dog on the road near her home.

"My first thought was I need to take him to the emergency vet and get him checked for a microchip," Jennifer told the station.

Jennifer followed through on her intuition and brought the canine to an animal hospital. As she suspected, the pup had a microchip — what surprised Jennifer, and the vet, was that the owner linked to the dog lived 1,700 miles away in Farmington, New Mexico.

"When Jen texted me, I was like, wait, what?" Springer told WYFF4. "This dog never left my side, so I thought he had like walked off to die because he was already old."

Carolina Loving Hound Rescue (CLHR) worked with Jennifer and Springer to reunite Springer with Nugget, covering the owner's flight to South Caroline to pick up the pup.

It is unclear how Nugget, who is now 16 years old, ended up so far from home, but the CLHR believes that Nugget could've been picked up by someone on a road trip who decided to take in the pet, not realizing the animal had a microchip and belonged to someone else.

Springer is grateful to everyone who made her reunion with Nugget possible and that she chose to have her pet microchipped.

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Nikkolai_the_Kol t1_jd4xldb wrote

I suspect someone found a dog out in the middle of nowhere, figured he had been abandoned by an owner who thought he was old, so they saved him. Seven years later, he wandered off again.

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Schwartzy94 t1_jd1zggt wrote

"This dog never left my side, so I thought he had like walked off to die because he was already old."

? So what is old according to this woman?

But anyway great that the doggo was found :)

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Breddit3 t1_jd1zu3v wrote

It says the dog is 16. A 9 year old dog is an old dog.

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muhaski t1_jd3rr9j wrote

9 isn't that old for many dog breeds.

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muhaski t1_jd4ot3z wrote

Yeah usually just really big dogs though. Great Danes live 8 to 10 years typically.

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qwertyuiiop145 t1_jd5ntsk wrote

9 is starting to get old for a dog, though most breeds don’t die at that age. It’s like being 60 for a human: dropping dead probably won’t happen for awhile but health problems tend to start piling up and some people do die of natural causes.

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lungshenli t1_jd329s5 wrote

Like a drifter I was born to walk alone

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blazelet t1_jd3lyms wrote

So strange ... this song was playing in my head as I read the article, then I got to your comment. Not even my typical music style.

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saltmarsh63 t1_jd3njdc wrote

He heard how dog friendly Hilton Head Island is, and just wanted a better life for himself.

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x31b t1_jd44ike wrote

And then he’s like fsck, I was gonna die on the beach. Now I’m on a plane back to New Mexico.

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suicidalsyd1 t1_jd3xamx wrote

🎶on the road that's where I'll always be🎶

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