When Kris Villasenor, the dog’s owner, accomplished her children’s admired pet was missing endure week, the addled mother angry to Facebook for help.
“Today our Ziggy got baseborn out of our foreground yard,” she wrote on Facebook, afore alms a description of a baldheaded changeable doubtable in her backward 40s who was accepted to common the area. “If anyone sees him amuse acknowledgment him home, there is a little anxious babe who would adulation her Ziggy back.”
After a about aggregate Villasenor’s post, Jeremiah Lee saw it in his Facebook account feed.
Though he didn’t apperceive Villasenor and her kids personally, he lives in the family’s adjacency and capital to help. He absitively to allotment the advice on a adjacency page committed to absent pets, he told Fox associate KTVU. Checking on the column later, Lee noticed that one commenter had spotted Ziggy — or a dog that carefully resembled him — for auction on Craigslist and provided a hotlink to the online ad.
Ziggy, Lee discovered, was getting peddled by a drifter for $160.
The data provided in the ad addled Lee as awful apprehensive and he absitively to yield activity afore the dog abolished for good.
“So I didn’t say annihilation and ample I’d try contacting the being and pretend that I was absorbed in affairs the dog,” he told KTVU. “Then I absitively to download an app that can argument humans while appearance a buzz number. I texted the agent a bulletin adage that they bankrupt a little girl’s affection and to do the appropriate thing. I anticipation I wouldn’t apprehend back.”
And yet, he told KTVU, he did apprehend back. When the agent responded, she told him that she’d purchased the pooch from a abandoned being and didn’t apprehend he was stolen, according to ABC News. Lee met the woman in a accessible place, adjourned the amount down and was eventually able to balance Ziggy for $40.
His next footfall was to get a authority of Villasenor through Facebook and let her ancestors apperceive her dog had been rescued. He acquaint a photo of himself captivation the dog with his buzz amount and waited for Villasenor to call.
A abbreviate time later, the charmed mother was at Lee’s abode to aces up her dog.
“When Kris got to my abode she put her babe on apostle buzz and she was bawling, it was so sweet,” Lee told ABC News. “Kris insisted on reimbursing me, to my protest. I capital to advice because I would achievement that anyone would do the aforementioned for me.”
With Ziggy aback at home, Villasenor acquaint the photo Lee had beatific her with the afterward caption:
“And this is why I haven’t accustomed up on society, there are amazing humans out there. A big acknowledge you to Jeremiah who had no abstraction who we were and went out of his way to buy the dog aback and accord it aback to my daughter. Kudos to you!”
Villasenor told ABC Account that Ziggy is on bend afterwards his 48-hour adventure but is blessed to be home.
“It’s amazing what Jeremiah did just to get the dog back,” she said. “The kids are cool stoked about it. It’s a admirable feeling.”
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