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A dog named Razzle has been found in California after he disappeared from his Arkansas home over a decade ago.
According to KARK, Razzle's family had given up hope but kept him in their hearts.
“You don’t just have that pet disappear and it not leave a really big hole,” his owner Aaron Howard told KARK.
Then one day they received a phone call from a person 1,900 miles away from them.
The last time the Howards saw Razzle was in 2011. One of their sons was just 8-years-old when the dog mysteriously disappeared, now he just graduated from high school.
“It was a Saturday morning and we let him out like we had done every morning for six years and that morning, he just didn’t come back,” Howard said of the day Razzle disappeared.
Ten years later, Razzle showed up at a trailer park in Stockton, California. Animal control was able to run his microchip and contact the Howards.
“What? Are you kidding? This can’t be real,” Howard recalled saying. “Just overjoyed that this could even be possible because he’s 16 years old.”
According to KARK, Razzle is being taken care of by a California woman until he's healthy enough to fly home.
“We were like, we want him back for whatever time that he has and if nothing else, he will come home and when he does pass, he’ll be at home,” Howard said. “We never thought that we would see him again and have that hole filled back up again so we’re thankful.”