A Staffordshire bull terrier is back with its owners in Belfast three years after going missing.
Eoin Markey spoke to the Belfast Telegraph about the ‘bolt out of the blue’ of his pet dog Mon being found at Yorkgate train station.
Mon had escaped from her garden in 2012 and presumed missing for good, but the fact that he was microchipped played a pivotal part in his return.
Eoin says that whoever had found her had taken great care of her. He had searched and put up posters long after Mon had gone missing, but to no avail.
“Wherever she was and whoever had kept her all that time took really good care of her,” he said, after finding her in good condition.
“I’d only been talking about her last week and then a day later I got the call and a voice told me they had Mon.”
Markey and his family had never replaced Mon and revealed that the dog – found on the Yorkgate train tracks on May 20th – appeared to remember him.
“I went in and called her and she came to me. The people thought that after so long she mightn’t know me but they said she really seemed to know me,” he said.
“We always wondered if she was still alive. Anyone who has lost a pet will know how heartbreaking it is.”
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