Lost Dog, Enzo, Found Safe In Baiting Hollow: 'It's A Happy Ending'
BAITING HOLLOW, NY — A Baiting Hollow family was overjoyed Thursday when their missing dog Enzo, was found safe and sound.
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Enzo went missing early Saturday morning when he and the family’s other dog Bella got out of the house after wind blew the door open — and at least one was hit by a car. The driver did not stop.
According to Charmaine DeRosa, who works with tracker Teddy Henn of Long Island Lost Dog Search& Rescue— Henn had been out searching for Enzo. There was video of a car hitting at least Bella; Bella made it home with broken vertebrae and is recuperating.
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Enzo, an Australian Shepherd, was found at the farm of a neighbor near the Scout camp, on the south side of the road, his owner Tilly Sisti said Thursday.
Enzo had apparently been eating the nutrient-filled food left out for cats; there was also a pond and dogs located where he was found, she said.
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“It was the dogs’ barking that led the woman to come down to where her dogs are, and she spotted Enzo,” Sisti said.
The woman called Sisti at work at about 3 p.m. and said she was looking at her dog; Sisti called her son to go immediately.
“Enzo was on a hill, looking down at everyone,” Sisti said. “My son Luke crouched down and opened his arms and called his name. Enzo slowly walked down — he didn’t run — and laid down in front of Luke, then flipped over for a belly rub. Just like they were in the living room. Just like it was another ordinary day.”
Enzo, she said, was healthy but very dirty. “Bella was very happy to see him,” she said.
Sisti said she wanted to thank everyone who’d opened their hearts to help. “There was so much outreach — people sharing posts, people hanging fliers, people calling. I really felt the love. So many animal lovers who were feeling what I was feeling!”
Now, she said, there’s work to be done, taking down all the fliers. “But I am happy to do it,” she said. “This was a happy ending.”
While he was missing, when asked what Enzo means to her family, Sisti said simply, “Everything.”
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