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LISTEN | Full interview with dog owner Jourdyn Koziak: As It Happens 5:59 She never stopped updating her lost dog's microchip. They were reunited after 11 years
When Jourdyn Koziak got a call on Saturday from a man who claimed that her long-lost dog had been found, she thought he was playing a "sick prank."
That's because her beloved pit bull, Forty-Cal, had been missing for 11 years.
"I said to him, 'This is a prank. It's not funny,'" Koziak told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. "He said, 'No ma'am, we have your dog.'"
Then, the staff at Animal Care and Control Team (ACCT) Philly sent her some pics of the pooch in question.
"Immediately, I could remember his markings from a mile away," she said. "That's him."
She never stopped updating his chip
Koziak hadn't seen Forty-Cal since he disappeared, along with her family's second dog, from the backyard of her former home in Philadelphia.
The other dog turned up not long after, but Forty-Cal never returned. Koziak has always suspected he was stolen from the yard.
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