--- title: Pit Bull Found in California After Texas Floods description: He disappeared during flooding in Texas back in May canonical: https://time.com/4098769/dog-found-after-floods/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-03T21:20:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:58.344Z og:title: Dog That Went Missing in Texas Floods Found in California og:description: He disappeared in May og:url: https://time.com/4098769/dog-found-after-floods/ 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: Dog That Went Missing in Texas Floods Found in California twitter:description: He disappeared in May twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Pit Bull Who Went Missing During Texas Floods Found in California ## Video: Inside the Canine Mind [Watch (HLS stream): Inside the Canine Mind](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dTemQHb7.m3u8) (2:08)  _Published 2009-09-11. Professor Brian Hare at Duke University studies people's pet dogs to understand how canines think_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 3, 2015 9:20 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 3, 2015 9:20 PM UTC A dog that disappeared during flooding in Texas back in May has somehow made his way to California, the Associated Press [reports](http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/thor-texas-dog-missing-in-floods-found-in-northern-california-1.11053673). Thor the pit bull ran away after his family evacuated their home in San Marcos over Memorial Day weekend, his owner Eddie Hurtado told the AP. In September, police found the pooch wandering around Crescent City, Calif. Workers at Del Norte County Animal Shelter used his microchip to identify him, and traced him back to Hurtado, who says he has no idea how Thor ended up there. > [](https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/661277817125015552) Justin Riggs, director of the shelter, [told ](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/thor-pit-bull-lost-texas-floods-found-california-n455826)NBC News that someone probably drove Thor to California. Hurtado couldn’t afford the estimated $1,500 to ship Thor home, but luckily, a California truck driver volunteered to give him a lift. In the meantime, the shelter has offered to keep him safe. “Certainly after everything they’ve been through,” Riggs said, “the least we can do is keep him safe here.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4098769/dog-found-after-floods/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4098769/dog-found-after-floods/"},"headline":"Pit Bull Who Went Missing During Texas Floods Found in California","datePublished":"2015-11-03T21:20:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:58.344Z","description":"He disappeared in May","url":"https://time.com/4098769/dog-found-after-floods/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"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/4098769/dog-found-after-floods/","name":"Pit Bull Who Went Missing During Texas Floods Found in California"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Inside the Canine Mind","description":"Professor Brian Hare at Duke University studies people's pet dogs to understand how canines think","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dTemQHb7/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2009-09-11T01:23:04.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dTemQHb7.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4098769/dog-found-after-floods/","duration":"PT2M8S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4098769/dog-found-after-floods/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```