Dog home after 8 years, answering new name

[JonLP24]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A puppy that scampered away from her Texas home is all grown up now and mysteriously back after eight years.

Owner Alison Murphy of Austin isn't sure where Dancer has been but says obedience school is the next stop for her newly recovered pet.

KVUE-TV reports that the brown and white terrier mix was left last week at the Humane Society in New Braunfels, about 45 miles away. A musician found the dog in his neighborhood and after a few days took the animal to the Humane Society to see if she had a microchip implant.

Dancer did.

Murphy says Dancer's teeth "are in great shape" and the dog is "still the same old girl."
http://www.9news.com/news/watercooler/article.aspx?storyid=115249&catid=337

[applegrove]

1. How on earth would they have figured out the dog answered to the name "Fern" if

they had no contact with the people who took care of the dog for 8 years? Fern is not a common name at all. Just weird. Perhaps the name was written on the collar.

[Orrex]

2. Maybe the dog demonstrated an unaccountable fondness for "Charlotte's Web"

[applegrove]

3. I never read Charlotte's Web.