A missing dog was reunited with her family after her owner saw her picture on a beer can.
DayDay the missing dog’s photo made it to beer cans as a part of an adoption campaign started by the cooperation of Motor works Brewery and Manatee County Animal Services, MCAS.
And, finally, it changed the pooch’s life.
DayDay was rescued by MCAS about a year ago as a stray street dog.
The people at MCAS checked her for a license and microchip. She had them both but unfortunately for her, both were linked to her former owner, meaning the shelter was not able to contact her family.
As there was no way for the shelter to locate DayDay’s family, they decided to put her up for adoption. Unluckily, 10 months passed and the dog could not find a new home.
It was when the MCAS staff decided to increase DayDay’s reach by including her in their promotional campaign they were running in cooperation with Motorworks Brewery, Bradenton, Florida.
The collaboration between Motorworks Brewery, Shelter Manatee and MCAS led to the printing of the pictures of four dogs including DayDay on the beer cans produced by the brewery and also helped raise funds for MCAS to make a new animal shelter in the county area.
This genius idea of shelter pets’ publicity was covered by news agencies all over the world.
The pictures of the beer cans with pets on them went viral on social media and this was when Monica Mathis from Minnesota saw DayDay’s can.
She knew it was her pet Hazel whom she had with her from the day she was born till she went missing.
Hazel went missing from her home more than three years ago in Iowa and despite all the search efforts put in by her and her eight children, they were not able to trace the dog.
After Monica spotted Hazel on the beer can, she contacted the shelter and provided them the proof of ownership to get her pooch back.
MCAS changed the course of their action from finding a new family for the dog to reuniting her to her original family.
Friends of Manatee County Animal Services, FoMCAS, is a non-profit organization that helps raise funds to run MCAS. FoMCAS is now funding the whole arrangement of driving Hazel back to her original owner in Minnesota from Florida within the next week.
Speaking to PEOPLE, a representative of MCAS said: “We are thrilled to be reuniting Hazel with Monica and her children. An important part of our mission is to get lost pets returned.
“Every pet deserves to have a loving home and we know that Hazel is returning to exactly that.”
It is not clear how Hazel made it from Minnesota to Florida in the first place but MCAS is making sure to make the reunion an example for all the pet owners to keep their pets’ microchip and license information updated.
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