Prince The Dog Returns Home After 5 Years, Finds Owner Myrna Carillo's New House (VIDEO)

If you move four times in five years, it's hard enough for the mail to find you, let alone a dog. But that's just what one smart Shih Tzu did this past week.

According to NBC News, Myrna Carillo lost her beloved dog Prince over five years ago in California. Since then, she has married, had two boys... and moved four times. And yet, somehow Prince showed up on her doorstep last week. Myrna immediately recognized the furry dog, and more impressively, the dog recognized her. Prince is already bonding with Myrna's sons, and is reacquainting himself with his rediscovered family.

This isn't the first pet miracle. Last year, a cat returned home after going missing during Hurricane Katrina five years ago. And an Australian dog returned home after a nine year disappearance. As for Prince -- while his house may have changed four times in his absence, there seems to be no place like home.

WATCH this adorable dog return home:

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Comments

[Tulka2]

06:50 PM on 02/17/2011

One cream colored Shih Tzu looks pretty much like the next cream colored Shih Tzu, eh? 

Unless you tell me there was an implanted chip, i say this story is hooey. 

Hope she hangs on to this dog a little better than the last one.  What's with keeping it outside the first night if she "knew" it was her "beloved" long lost dog???!!!

[Hatima Transport]

10:02 AM on 01/27/2011

they act like they don't want the dog...they seem distant.

[FrancieL]

02:02 AM on 01/26/2011

WHY WOULD THIS WOMAN LEAVE HER NEWLY REUNITED DOG OUTSIDE OVERNIGHT? I FIND THAT CRUEL!!! WHY WOULD A SMART DOG RETURN 5 YEARS LATER TO SUCH A UNLOVING FORMER OWNER??? I MUST ACCEPT THAT THIS WILL REMAIN A MYSTERY TO ME. ST. FRANCIS, PATRON SAINT OF ALL ANIMALS, PLEASE MEET THE NEEDS OF THIS DOG!!!

[gayleg]

08:39 PM on 01/23/2011

These stories make no sense.

[bcmom]

08:29 PM on 01/23/2011

I have my doubts this is their dog.

[60s Dem]

03:21 PM on 01/23/2011

Dogs deserve owners that will TAKE THEM IN AT NIGHT. Here's hoping that dog runs BACK to wherever he's been living for the last 5 years....and I hope he turns and gives her a little doggie flip-off when he leaves.

[kmeccat]

09:49 PM on 01/22/2011

He finally makes it home and she leaves him outside that same night?
She doesn't seem all that thrilled he's home...poor little guy.
I would have been hugging him for hours and not let him out of my sight!
What is wrong with people?!

[Lori Aretz]

06:27 PM on 01/22/2011

I know it's been said, but add my dismay to the chorus of people upset that she LEFT HER DOG OUTSIDE AFTER HE WAS MISSING FOR FIVE YEARS! Poor, poor, little guy.

[MagicalPossibilities]

02:29 PM on 01/22/2011

Touching story, until the announcer mentioned that they made him sleep outside his first night home. If my fur-baby had been missing for 5 years I certainly would have kept him inside.

[boonesfarmer]

05:14 PM on 01/22/2011

It's almost as if she was hoping he would leave again.

[HawaiianLady]

02:54 PM on 01/21/2011

My mother's cat returned after three years of being gone from home. One day Mama was sitting in the living room and this scroungy-looking skinny cat came marching in as though she owned the place. My mother looked closely and said "Sunshine!" an the cat jumped up on her lap and began purring. Nobody knows where Sunshine had been all that time. They'd scoured the neighborhood for her but no sign until then.

A friend of mine, John Sinor, a columnist with the San Diego paper a long time ago, said the way to get rid of a cat was to spend $250 on it at the veterinarian's, since it would immediately take up residence at a house down the street.

Nobody had spent that much on Sunshine, so I doubt that was why she left. But back she came.

[boonesfarmer]

05:18 PM on 01/22/2011

What a great story! I'm glad Sunshine came back!

[gayleg]

08:43 PM on 01/23/2011

Sunshine was probably taken by a neighborhood "rescuer." (No offense against actual rescuers, I mean people who horde animals thinking they are helping them, but they are not.

Happened to my cat years ago. We thought the poor thing was dead. Some lady up the street who was living with 20+ cats took ours in thinking she was helping him.

Now my cats are indoor cats. They're safer that way!

[seikena]

01:54 PM on 01/21/2011

I notice that there is no "become a fan" icon near my two recent
comments. Is this because HP is afraid that the enormous response
would overload its computers? Or, more likely, as suggested
by my wife, nobody is going to like what I have to say anyway so why
bother.

Just curious.
.

[StopCensoringMe]

03:56 AM on 01/22/2011

It's there. You can't "fan" yourself so you don't see it. Had your post had anything to do with the story, I might have thrown you a bone to be #3.

[camanokat]

01:51 AM on 01/23/2011

F&F for giving me the giggles!

[westreal]

11:48 AM on 01/21/2011

Her mom gave the dog away or someone stole it and returned it when they couldn't afford to take care of it anymore. Simple. No miracle here folks.

[HawaiianLady]

02:56 PM on 01/21/2011

Poof. A lot you know.

[boonesfarmer]

05:20 PM on 01/22/2011

Yup, I definitely think there is more to this story than is being reported. The truth might take away it's "feel good" qualities.

[Thomas Alan]

11:18 AM on 01/21/2011

yeah we had a cat disappear for over a year, then one day just came back scratched on the door and everything, i opened the door to let in the other cat and here he comes right in the door straight to the food dish i was just amazed.

[bioluminescence]

10:56 AM on 01/21/2011

Someone wiser than me once wrote: "Dogs give you all the love they have for all the love you can spare."

[camanokat]

02:02 AM on 01/23/2011

So true! F&F!

[seikena]

10:49 AM on 01/21/2011

If the trend continues, here is a possible story for HP
in the year 2020:

Years ago, 6 year old Tim O'Timmy from Dublin.
Ireland could not find his dog Tam. Tim was inconsolable. Years later, Tim
emigrates to the United States and much later finds himself, at
the age of 88, in the Peoria Retirement Village for Dog Lovers. One day, having left his door open, what does Tim see strolling into his room but his long lost dog Tam. Tam quickly jumps up on Tim and begins to furiously lick his face. Tim in turn, furiously licks Tams face.

Tim does not put Tam out in the cold. Tam becomes a permanent resident of the retirement home and Tim and Tam live happily ever after.

The end.