Arizona Man Who Never Stopped Trying is Reunited with Dog Lost 8 Years Ago in Another State

A man was recently reunited with his beloved pooch Damian after 8 years of separation.

He’s far from the puppy he was when he ran off at a rest stop in Oklahoma, with longer teeth, wobbly legs, and a grey snout, but he hadn’t forgotten his owner’s face even after so many years.

The story begins in 2017 when Paul Guilbeault and his family were moving from Massachusetts to Arizona. At the rest stop, miniature Pincher Damian got spooked, jumped off his leash, and disappeared. A week of searching yielded as much as the first minute of searching, and finally, Paul’s father told him and his family it was time to move on.

“It was devastating—that dog got me through a lot of emotional things, family issues and whatnot, just being there for me as a companion,” Guilbeault told ABC News. “I was his everything, as he was mine, and losing him was really, really tough.”

Years went by, and Guilbeault never gave up hope of seeing Damian again; routinely posting the dog’s face on social media pages for lost animals.

Then one day, a woman from Oklahoma City nearly ran over a small brown dog who darted across the road. Alighting to pick him up, she said the dog tried to bite her, but as luck would have it she was an animal lover, and wasn’t going to let their close call be replicated.

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Bringing Damian to her brother, who then took him to the vet, they scanned for a microchip. Minutes later, whilst Guilbeault and his husband were driving to LA to donate clothes to victims of the recent wildfires, he got the text of a lifetime.

“My Apple Watch gave me a little preview, and it said, ‘Your dog, Damian, has been found,’” he recalled. “And I was like, ‘What the …?!’”

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That spurred a detour of 16 hours that led to an unforgettable reunion.

Guilbeault and Damian have been making up for lost time, going to the park everyday, with the former keeping a close eye on his owner to make sure there are no more separations.

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