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Dog Reunites With Family After 6 Years

Cujo was a frisky 7-year-old when he sneaked out of his owners' south St. Louis yard in July 2000. Now, thinner and grayer and with a tale that would be fascinating if only he could tell it, the golden retriever is back with the Barczewski family.

"It's a miracle," Noreen Barczewski, 41, said at Friday's reunion. "We found him!"

Six years and a side trip to Columbia can do a lot to a dog, but it was unmistakably Cujo. There was the heart-shaped patch of white on his forehead, the white fur on his toes, his manner of greeting people by rubbing against them cat-style.

Cujo's homecoming was orchestrated by Dirk's Fund, a golden retriever rescue group that has found homes for more than 900 dogs in the past decade.

After slipping away from home, Cujo somehow ended up 120 miles in Columbia in the home of an elderly woman. When the woman entered a nursing home, the dog was sent to the Central Missouri Humane Society in Columbia.

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Cat travels 38 miles back to old house

Dorothy Causey knew her cat wouldn't take well to a new home. So it wasn't a surprise when, days after the feline moved in with Causey's daughter in Naples, Cleo ran away.

But Causey, a locally renown artist, was stunned months later to hear the cat had returned to her old home in Fort Myers.

"I still have a hard time believing it," Causey said.

Cleo, a gray-and-white tomcat with white boots, lived with Causey for most of the past five years, after he was found abandoned as a kitten. While Causey lived at her Caloosa Vista Road home in Fort Myers, she said the cat always preferred to "hide from the world," staying inside and out of view if visitors ever came over.

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