Lost Dog Reunites With Owner Through Facebook

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What do you do when you find a lost dog without a tag?

You can call up your neighborhood vet and humane society, go door to door or put up posters. But what if all these traditional methods didn’t work?

Fortunately, when David Slade’s fiancée, Kelly found the dog she nicknamed “mouse,” he sought another method after all else failed. His neighborhood of Hillcrest, a small, older area within Little Rock, Ark., has an active Facebook Page with nearly 2,500 fans. David posted a photo of Mouse, along with the following short message to the Page’s Wall.

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Amazingly, within only a few hours, a woman named Lin Chan commented: “That’s our TYSON! Thank you!”

Lin had been alerted to David’s post by a phone call from a friend who had seen the post. “I quickly logged onto Facebook and was relieved and in disbelief when I saw Tyson’s photo posted by David,” she said. “My son, who is 4, actually cried when he saw the photo because he ‘wanted Tyson home now’.”

Well, this would not be too surprising to people who have heard of long lost siblings reuniting with each other through Facebook. But look at what an online community of a neighborhood can do when door to door didn’t work?