Missing dog returned home after five years

Brierley Howard was overjoyed after being told that Iggy had been found 130 miles from her Balladen, Lancashire home, on the streets of Leicester, The Daily Telegraph reports.

Her mother Karen Howard said: "We had given up all hope. It is just so great to have him back - although I would never have recognised him. He has put on quite a bit of weight.

"Amazingly though he is just the same and still plays like he is a puppy. Fortunately for us, the woman took him to a vet, they scanned him and got in touch with the microchip people."

She added: "They said the only thing we have got on this scan is this dog was stolen five years ago.

"When I rang the lady she said 'What did you say his name was?'. I told her and she repeated it and then said 'Oh goodness, his ears pricked up'."

Iggy had originally disappeared in August 2005 as an 18-month-old puppy.


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