Dog Thought Dead for 4 Years Turns Up at Shelter Alive and Reunites with Her Stunned Family

6 days ago

Sugar nan maltipoo's family is thrilled to person their canine backmost and is dedicated to caring for nan canine for nan remainder of her life

Published connected June 24, 2025 08:45PM EDT

Albania Sagarra and Sugar. Credit :

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Four years aft Sugar nan canine went missing and supposedly died, she was reunited pinch her family
The canine vanished from location successful 2021. Not agelong after, her family received a telephone from a man claiming they saw Sugar get deed by a car
In June 2025, an anonymous individual surrendered Sugar to a Florida shelter, which later contacted nan dog's family

A family has reunited pinch a canine they were judge they would ne'er spot again.

Sugar, nan Sagarra family's beloved Maltipoo dog, went missing successful 2021 erstwhile she reportedly snuck retired of her location successful a Miami neighborhood, per section outlet WPLG.

The pup's family searched everyplace and offered a $1000 reward for nan pet. After their efforts to find Sugar failed, nan Sagarra family started to springiness up hope, and past they sewage an unforgettable telephone telephone from a man.

"He said that he witnessed her get tally complete by a car going astir 70 to 80 miles an hour," Albania Sagarra told nan outlet.

This eyewitness relationship was sadistic news for Sugar's family, but yet nan animal lovers accepted their beloved canine was dead.

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Yet Sugar was live nan full time, nan family recovered retired 4 years later, erstwhile an anonymous individual dropped a surviving Sugar disconnected astatine a shelter successful June 2025. The shelter, not acold from wherever nan Sagarra family lives, contacted nan pup's aged family aft figuring retired who nan canine was.

The Sagarras admitted that since Sugar isn't dead, they aren't judge what happened to her complete nan past 4 years, but fearfulness personification abducted nan canine and neglected her.

"I'm conscionable very happy and soaking up each infinitesimal pinch Sugar because this is for illustration a resurrection I would person ne'er imagined," Albania told WFTV.

Sugar isn't successful nan patient information she erstwhile was. She arrived astatine nan shelter underweight and ill. Since returning to her family, she has been diagnosed pinch Stage 4 bosom illness and Stage 4 kidney disease. Her family told WPLG they are still overjoyed to person Sugar backmost and look guardant to providing her pinch loving attraction for nan remainder of her life.

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"She's backmost wherever she belongs, and I'm happy that, astatine slightest nan remainder of her days, she'll beryllium pinch her family," Albania said.