Dog from Texas, missing for years, finds his way home

Corky went missing in August of 2009, when he somehow slipped away from the Montez family’s fenced-in yard in Texas.

The family spent months looking for the little terrier they had adopted that year. He was wearing his collar when he went missing.

“We searched for him for six months,” one of his owners, Jimmy Montez, told ABC News. “We put up fliers, asked local businesses if they’d seen him and even went door-to-door to our neighbors. But we never found him, and so we assumed the worst.”

The family moved from their home near Boyd, Texas, to Fort Worth, and added two dogs, but they never forgot about Corky, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

Then, this month, the Montez family got a call.

Corky was microchipped, which was lucky for all involved. Because that’s how he was reunited with the family, after he and another dog were brought into the Humane Society of North Texas.

Staffers discovered the microchip after Corky and another dog, named Captain, were brought in, according to a Humane Society post on Facebook. Kim and Jimmy Montez were contacted and when the family arrived, they took home not only Corky, but his pup pal, the one-eyed Captain.

“What a blessed day it was,” Kim Montez told the Star-Telegram. “We have so much love to share.”

The newspaper described the reunion:

“What a wonderful way to wake up on Saturday morning,” Kim Montez said. “We never knew what had happened to him. We still had pictures of him in the house, but we never expected that call.”

Captain, the other stray adopted by the family, and Corky are kind of a package deal these days, Jimmy Montez told ABC, saying it is “so obvious they’re best friends.”