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Dog reunited with owner two years after theft
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Flora Borgstadt and her two children, Alex and Soledad, are reunited with their pet pit bull, Piggy, on Thursday morning in Phoenix. (Photo by Lauren Mansfield, for the Tribune)
A white pit bull named Piggy was reunited with his owner and her two children Thursday in south Phoenix — nearly two years after the dog was stolen from the owner’s home in Texas.
Flora Borgstadt and her two children, Alex and Soledad, left their home outside El Paso on Wednesday after receiving a call that their dog had been picked up and scanned for a microchip by Maricopa County Animal Care and Control.
The owner drove through the night from her home in Texas to be reunited with Piggy at 8 a.m. Thursday.
“We’ve never gone anywhere outside our little town,” Borgstadt said. “We forgot our toothbrushes, but we’ve got his collar.”
Maricopa County Animal Care spokeswoman Aprille Hollis said the dog was in good condition, although he was slightly underweight when he was picked up about a mile from the center.
She said the dog had wounds that appeared to be caused by a rope around his neck.
“It’s a good story,” Hollis said. “It doesn’t happen enough.”
Hollis said dogs picked up by animal control workers are scanned for microchips as a standard procedure. She said a microchip is a good guarantee that a dog will be returned to its proper home.
Borgstadt said she began crying when she received the call about Piggy. She said she decided to get her pet a microchip after seeing advertisements for the procedure in El Paso.
“I lost faith in the microchip,” she said. “But it’s been renewed.”
Borgstadt said she offered rewards, ran advertisements and went door to door in Texas after Piggy’s disappearance.
“I can’t believe I’m holding him,” she said, as she knelt with the dog and her children. “It’s like a hollow in your heart, but it’s time to go home now.”
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