A friend found her cat again after years in a city about 50 km away.

The article strangely doesn't say the dog's age. But it has a pic of him as a puppy in 2012, and says he was gone for 11 years.

Since the article was written in the last few days, that means that Forty-Cal was about 3 when he went missing, and was about 14 when he returned.

The article said that two dogs went missing from their backyard at once, and the other came back after a few weeks, so she thinks someone took them from her yard.

Presumably from his description as being friendly, he lived as a family pet for all these years, and then was abandoned.

This brings me some hope I may one day be reunited with my best friend

A pitbull named Forty-Cal bought by a 16 year old with her own money. I hope her children got better names, but at least she got her dog back :-)

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