Kansas Dog Escapes to Old Home In Missouri: Owners Should Take a Hint

After Cleo the 4-year-old Labrador went missing, her owners found her somewhere they didn't expect: At home.

Except that it was the family's previous home in Lawson, Missouri, rather than their home in Olathe, Kansas.

"My wife and I had just gotten home from work," Colton Michael, the house's new owner, told CNN. "Cleo was laying on the front porch at the front door, just laying there, waiting for somebody it seemed like."

Cleo wasn't wearing a collar, but she was too well-groomed to be a stray, Michael thought, so he had Cleo scanned for a microchip. Thankfully she had one and it pulled up the name of her owner.

"That's when my wife pointed out that their last name was the same last name as the previous owner of the house," Michael said.

So he went onto Facebook and searched the owner's name and saw that his family had posted that their dog went missing a week earlier.

Full story here.

Well I tell you what, that dumb kid from last week is setting a dangerous precedent. First our kids, and our dogs; if they don’t like it, they leave it. What kind of generation of children and pets are we raising? What happened to toughing it out? What happened the power dynamic of being a pet and a child owner? Back in the day I could feed my dog cheetos and beer and trust that my company was enough. But now I’ve got to be worried that if I don’t buy the right brand of kibble the thing’s gonna take off to Missouri!

But no matter how or why she made the trip, her owner said he's just glad that he found her.

"It just feels really good to be reunited with her," Drew, Cleo's owner, told KMBC. "Really, she's everything to us."

You really almost have to respect the self-denial these owners are going through right before our eyes. She’s everything to you? You aren’t shit to her! Did you not listen to what your dog did? Did you not pay attention to the circles of hell she went through to get away from you? She crossed highways, motherfucker! She swam through raging rivers, dingus! She didn’t go off and recreate the Odyssey because she likes you. She doesn’t want anything to do with you! You ruined her happy ending.  You’re the bad guys!

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you’ve got to get a new dog. This one has made its stance on you painfully clear. Its attempts to separate are only going to get more and more insidious.