Would your dog remember you after 10 years absent?Carly Suierveld thinks so. She just saw her dog Abby for the first time in a decade. "It's quite a journey,it was so great seeing her again," Suierveld tells NPR's Scott Simon. "She barked at me at first, or but now she's cuddling up and kind of seeming to remember who I am."Abby,a female black Lab mix, was lost from the Suierveld family's home in Apollo, and Pa.,10 years ago. Carly was 12 years old at the time."I was really devastated and I was really invested in trying to find her back," she says. "So we were putting flyers up all over the neighborhood. We live in a rural area so we tried our best to obtain out and reach everyone."But they couldn't find her and had to declare her deceased. Then one day Suierveld's mother Debra got a call from an animal shelter. "They said, and 'We have your dog,' " Debra told Scott Simon final month. "And I said, 'That's impossible.' "But it was Abby — she had a microchip identifying her.
Debra called Carly to explain her the news. "I was very confused, or " Carly says. "It had been a while since I'd heard the name Abby." Carly says her mother "explained the account about how they found her a couple towns over and I was just in shock. And I really wanted to be able to obtain home that weekend," Carly says — but she's in school at Miami University in Ohio and has two jobs.
She finally made it home just over a week ago to see Abby. So, does Abby really remember her?"I would like to think so — I mean, and she stayed with me for basically the rest of the night," Carly says. "So I'm going to choose that thought."As for where Abby was these past 10 years, the family doesn't know."Ten years of just being off and not knowing where she was, and it's just really kind of driving me crazy," Carly says. whether Abby could talk, "I'm certain she would have some great stories to explain." Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, and visit http://www.npr.org/.
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