--- title: Dog Who Disappeared 3 Years Ago Reunited With Family description: A dog who went missing from his family's yard in San Antonio, Texas, three years ago was finally reunited with his family on Thursday. canonical: https://time.com/4272134/missing-dog-family-reunited/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-25T15:49:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:09.748Z og:title: A Dog Who Disappeared 3 Years Ago Was Reunited With His Family og:description: "It’s like one of my kids came home" og:url: https://time.com/4272134/missing-dog-family-reunited/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Dog Who Disappeared 3 Years Ago Was Reunited With His Family twitter:description: "It’s like one of my kids came home" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A Dog Who Disappeared 3 Years Ago Was Reunited With His Family > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=632edd10-3aa0-4d88-8e2e-cfd7bce70227&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 25, 2016 3:49 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 25, 2016 3:49 PM UTC A [dog who went missing](http://time.com/4263400/dog-found-alive-lost-at-sea-5-weeks/) from his family’s yard in San Antonio, Texas, three years ago was finally reunited with his family this week — at their new home in Virginia. Gucci, an American pit bull terrier, disappeared in 2013 two weeks before his owners moved [1,500 miles across the country](http://time.com/3973782/lost-dog-indiana-arizona-1800-miles/) to Norfolk, according to [The Virginian-Pilot](http://pilotonline.com/news/local/dog-that-disappeared-years-ago-is-reunited-with-tearful-owner/article%5Fe017535f-032c-5f9c-8473-7f81acb3c6f0.html). Ayana Kelly and her family spent the days leading up to the move searching for their [lost pup](http://time.com/4256193/dog-riding-lawnmower/) but were unable to find him. “We were devastated,” Kelly said. “We really felt like we left a family member behind. It was a long, depressing feeling, like an empty void you just can’t fill.” But two weeks ago, Kelly’s husband Gary received an unexpected call from a San Antonio animal shelter saying Gucci — who is microchipped — was there. The family was told that he had been living with someone for a while but had been dropped off at the shelter. **Read More:** [Watch This Emotional Video of a Young Boy Reuniting with His Lost Dog](http://time.com/4183204/boy-reunites-with-dog/) Kelly hired an animal rescue group, For The Love of Paws R.I. Rescue and Transport, to return Gucci to them and he arrived on Thursday. “He’s the same big baby,” Gary Kelly said. “It’s like one of my kids came home.” Watch the cheerful reunion below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4272134/missing-dog-family-reunited/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4272134/missing-dog-family-reunited/"},"headline":"A Dog Who Disappeared 3 Years Ago Was Reunited With His Family","datePublished":"2016-03-25T15:49:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:09.748Z","description":"\"It’s like one of my kids came home\"","url":"https://time.com/4272134/missing-dog-family-reunited/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Dogs","families"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4272134/missing-dog-family-reunited/","name":"A Dog Who Disappeared 3 Years Ago Was Reunited With His Family"}}]}] ```