Editor, Gazette-Journal:

On Sunday, Oct. 17, while we were out of state, Sedona, our Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, escaped from her pet sitter’s yard.

Sedona is a small, timid girl and we had little hope she would come to a stranger. We arrived home at 1 a.m. and drove through the area calling her name until 3 a.m.

By 7 a.m. Monday, we felt we were looking for a body. There had been no reports to animal control or to the police of a small spaniel type dog being picked up.

Then Sedona’s Angel took her to the Gloucester Veterinary Hospital and told the staff she had found her, bathed her (digging under fences makes you dirty), but could not keep her.

They checked her microchip and called us. A simple lost dog found story—not quite.

Sedona had been bred the week before and probably is pregnant, and I admit she is very shy, so getting her to come could not have been easy.

The office was not sure of your name—maybe Jodie Lane? We looked the name up, ...