--- title: Young Boy Reunites with His Lost Dog in Emotional Video description: A woman in Lubbock, Texas, recently shared a video showing the heartwarming bond between a boy and his pet. canonical: https://time.com/4183204/boy-reunites-with-dog/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-15T22:17:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:28:54.737Z og:title: Watch This Emotional Video of a Young Boy Reuniting with His Lost Dog og:description: It's a tearjerker og:url: https://time.com/4183204/boy-reunites-with-dog/ 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: Watch This Emotional Video of a Young Boy Reuniting with His Lost Dog twitter:description: It's a tearjerker twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Emotional Video of a Young Boy Reuniting with His Lost Dog > Sponsored content. 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[Paula Williams](https://www.facebook.com/BradandPaulaWilliams/videos/1063349260351938/) captured the moment when her son was [reunited](http://time.com/4179320/friends-reunion-happening-nbc/) with his [dog](http://time.com/3766943/running-exercise-dogs/) Kase, who had been missing for nearly a month. But not to worry, Williams wrote that Kase was well taken care of during his time away from home. “He was found right down the street from our house. A nice family had taken him in and kept him warm and fed,” she said. In the video, the boy is shown bursting into tears when he realizes his dog is back. “I missed you,” he says. **Read More:** [Man Arrested for Plot to Kidnap the Obamas’ Dog](http://time.com/4173044/obama-dog-kidnap-sunny-bo/) The clip was posted to Facebook on Jan. 8 and has since been viewed nearly 4 million times and shared over 65,000 times. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4183204/boy-reunites-with-dog/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4183204/boy-reunites-with-dog/"},"headline":"Watch This Emotional Video of a Young Boy Reuniting with His Lost Dog","datePublished":"2016-01-15T22:17:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:54.737Z","description":"It's a tearjerker","url":"https://time.com/4183204/boy-reunites-with-dog/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Children","animals","Dogs","Pets","animal videos"],"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/4183204/boy-reunites-with-dog/","name":"Watch This Emotional Video of a Young Boy Reuniting with His Lost Dog"}}]}] ```