You may have heard the song "reunited and it feel so good"...that's exactly what one local woman felt today as she was re-joined with her long lost dog after two years.
Raquel Hernandez and her three children were reunited today with their beloved lost dog, Blanca Nieve, after someone brought the dog in to Bakersfield Animal Care Center.
The family said she had been missing for two years after getting out.
They said they searched for weeks but never found her.
Raquel Hernandez said "she went out with her sister and her sister came back but she didn't and we had her micro-chipped but we thought she got run over"
Julie Johnson, the director of Bakersfield Animal Care Center said,
"they were absolutely ecstatic when the staff called them and said 'hey we have your dog here at the city shelter'. And she didn't believe us at first, she was in disbelief because she has been missing her dog for so long"
Julie Johnson from animal care services said without Blanca's micro chip information this long awaited reunion would have never happened.
Julie Johnson said "we scanned the dog for a micro chip. Low and behold it had a micro chip and this incredible family had been missing this dog for two whole years."
Johnson said if there is one thing that should be taken away from this story, it's the importance of micro chipping your pet, and that it's just as important to keep your information on the chip up to date.
Hernandez says her seven year old daughter has been been praying this month for her dog to return.
So, she says, someone must have been listening to her prayers.
Raquel Hernandez said, "I am just shocked that after so many years we were able to find her. She's just a little bit chubbier, but its her."
Johnson says the person who brought the dog to the shelter today, didn't find the dog very far from the original owner's home.