3 months ago
AKRON, Ohio (CNN) -- An Ohio family thought they had lost their beloved Maltipoo on vacation nearly 3 months ago, only to find out the family pet had survived in the wilderness.
A trip to Maine turned into the adventure of a lifetime for Mindy the Maltipoo.
It began with a stop in a wilderness area of northwest Massachusetts.
"I thought my wife threw the dog in the car and she thought I put her in and we got about 30 miles down the road and made another stop and discovered she wasn't in," John Dunbar said.
They went back for Mindy but couldn't find her.
Her family didn't give up.
When they returned home to Akron, they put Mindy's picture on amberpetalert.com. That was three months ago.
Her profile was a week away from being removed when the call came: Mindy was alive and well.
"At first I'm like this has to be a joke. My dog's dead. she's been gone three months."
When she got home, she weighed three pounds.
"They said she had a diet of mainly grasses and roots and bugs or whatever she could scavenge (and she's a foo foo dog). The Humane Society said it was so unusual for a little dog to be able to survive for three months. But somehow she did it," Kathy Dunbar said. "I can't believe it. I cried because I was sad, now I cry because I'm happy."
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