A Rockdale County couple is thankful to have their dog back after thieves broke into their home while they were at church Sunday and took him.
Alton McCollough and his wife left at 8:30 a.m. and returned around 1:30 p.m. to find their home had been broken into.
“The house was ransacked. They had gone through all the drawers just pulling stuff out and throwing them on the floor. We searched for our dog and couldn’t find him anywhere,” he tells WSB’s Sandra Parrish.
Late that afternoon in Henry County, Sheri Pettus and her family arrived home to find a small dog outside their front door. He ran into the woods only to return a few hours later.
That’s when McCullough took to Facebook with a plea to help find his dog and it was quickly shared.
“We took a video of him and posted on Facebook and maybe three to five minutes later, I saw my Facebook friend share Alton’s post,” she says.
Phone numbers were exchanged and Pettus and McCollough connected.
“She sent me a text picture and it was Rambo. So, we drove over--it was about 11 miles from our house to where this was. When we got there, we were so pleased it was our little dog,” he says.
Pettus, who captured the reunion on video, says up until his owners arrived, Rambo just laid on her floor exhausted.
“When Alton and his wife got to my door and he saw them, his whole personality changed,” she says.
McCullough theorizes the thieves got scared and abandoned Rambo. He’s just thankful the dog, which the couple considers a family member, ended up at Pettus’ home.
“If he hadn’t ended up at this lady’s house, I don’t know what would have happened to him. I’m thankful that they did not try to sell or do any harm to him,” he says.
Pettus says Rambo is the third dog she’s been able to reunite with its owners thanks to Facebook.