It's so nice to finally read a story with a happy ending!
Dog-Gone Story Has Happy Ending http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...p-314702c.html
BY LISA L. COLANGELO
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU
This shaggy dog story has a happy ending.
Janine Segarra's 3-year-old pooch was so terrified by an unleashed pit bull in Carl Schurz Park, next to Gracie Mansion, he wriggled free of his collar and fled.
Fortunately, Shiba the 26-pound Shiba Inu lives in a city of dog lovers.
"Every New Yorker called me to give me a heads-up to say where my baby may be," said Segarra, 34, a senior manager at the Fairway market on the upper West Side.
Posters put up by Segarra urging people to look out for the wayward pet earlier this month generated a massive response.
Dog lovers called in sightings of the wily pooch, and one woman spent hours in Central Park trying unsuccessfully to coax the frightened dog onto a leash.
Finally, animal rescuer Miriam Reik ended Shiba's four days on the run when she was called to pick up the exhausted dog from a W. 97th St. doorway.
"He looked very frightened and tired," said Reik, who heads a group called the Animal Project.
"Everybody says New Yorkers are mean and nasty, but we're not," said Segarra. "Everybody banded together."
Shiba was reunited with his owner by a tiny identification microchip implanted under his skin - a process Segarra hopes her experience encourages.
"Otherwise you can lose your best friend forever," she said.
Originally published on November 29, 2005