Nanuq. Photo by Mandy Iworrigan.
An Australian shepherd has been returned to his owners after going missing in Alaska. The dog, Nanuq, was found over 150 miles away from his home on St. Lawrence Island.
- Nanuq went missing when his owner, Mandy Iworrigan, visited Savoogna, another community on Alaska's St. Lawrence Island.
- About
a month after Nanuq's disappearance people began posting Facebook
pictures of a dog that looked like him in the Wales region on Alaska's
west coast.
- Wales is separated from Savoogna by 150 miles of ice over the Bering Strait.
- “I
was like, ‘No freakin’ way! That’s our dog! What is he doing in
Wales?’” said Iworrigan after her father alerted her to the pictures.
- Nanuq was recovered in relatively good health apart from a bite wound on his leg from an unknown animal.
- Iworrigan filmed her reunion with Nanuq after he was flown back to Savoonga.
