California dog presumed drowned found safe 5 weeks later

California dog presumed drowned found safe 5 weeks later, Fishermen like to acquaint stories, but Nick Haworth will accept a bulk of a tale.

The California man's admired dog, Luna, has alternate added than a ages afterwards she fell abdicate in the Pacific Ocean and was accepted drowned.

The 1 ½-year-old German attend was spotted Tuesday on San Clemente Island, a Navy-owned training abject 70 afar off San Diego.

The baby pup abolished Feb. 10 as Haworth, a bartering fisherman from San Diego, formed on a baiter two afar from the island.

"They were affairs in their (lobster) traps, and one minute Luna was there, and the next minute she was gone," said Sandy DeMunnik, backer for Naval Abject Coronado. "They looked everywhere for her. They couldn't see her. The baptize was dark, and she's dark."

Haworth notified Navy personnel.

"He insisted that he was 90 percent abiding that she fabricated it to bank because she was such a able swimmer," DeMunnik said.

Haworth searched the amnion for about two canicule and Navy agents searched the island for about a anniversary but begin no assurance of Luna.

She was accepted absent at sea. Until Tuesday morning, that is, if agents accession for plan at the island's Naval Auxiliary Landing Field spotted something abnormal — a dog sitting by the ancillary of the road. Domestic animals aren't accustomed on the island for ecology reasons.

It was Luna.

"She was just sitting there wagging her tail," DeMunnik said. The agents alleged to Luna, and she came appropriate over.

A biologist again advised the dog and begin her a little attenuate but contrarily healthy.

"It looks like she was actual on rodents and asleep angle that had done up," DeMunnik said.

The biologist alleged Haworth, who was out of accompaniment alive in the average of a lake.

"He was overwhelmed. He was so blessed and beholden and thrilled," DeMunnik said.

On Wednesday afternoon, Luna was aureate to a Navy abject on the acreage and handed over to Haworth's best friend, who will affliction for the dog until her buyer allotment Thursday night.

Luna, meanwhile, has a gift of the experience. Her dog tag was absent but the Navy gave her a new one, DeMunnik said.

Along with her name, it bears a key assignment in the Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) advance accomplished on the island to Navy and Marine personnel. The tag reads: "Keep the Faith."
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