Dog Missing from Kansas for Eight Long Years Is Found 1,000 Miles Away from Home in Idaho

A dog that went missing in Kansas was found after eight years in Idaho, located more than 1,000 miles away.

His owner Nicolle Leon said, “When he got out of the van the morning he came home, he came wagging his tail right to me.”

“I brought him inside, and my kids [had] just woken up. He was all over them, wagging his tail with such excitement. I wasn’t sure if he really would remember us — but the way he acted, I think he does.”

Roscoe was just a year old when he went missing in early 2015, not long after Leon got the puppy as a gift for her kids, Alani and Alex, who were 8 and 5 years old at the time, she said.

The family was not home at the time — and when they returned, Roscoe was gone.

“There were no signs of him getting out or holes dug under the fence,” Leon said.

“I always had a feeling someone stole him, or someone found him and kept him — and whoever had him knew he was missing or stolen,” she added.

“He was microchipped, and I never got a call once after all these years.”

Leon said she called her local Humane Society and animal shelter and posted fliers, but Roscoe never turned up, and her kids were heartbroken over the puppy’s loss.

Leon said the family continued to talk about him for years, even as recently as a few weeks before he was located.