#Dedicated dog treks 60 miles to get back to her old home

“#Dedicated dog treks 60 miles to get back to her old home”

July 18, 2020 | 1:25pm

Cleo the canine must have been a homing pigeon in another life.

The pooch trekked 60 miles from her new home in Olathe, Kansas, to her old home in Lawson, Missouri, where she hasn’t lived for nearly two years. She had to cross a river — either the Kansas, the Missouri or maybe both — to make her way back.

Cleo, a 4-year-old Labrador, settled in on the house’s front porch, startling the family who lives there now.

Britney Colton spotted the dog first, said Michael Colton, her husband, according to KMBC News, a TV station in Kansas City, Missouri, not far from Olathe.

“She got out of her car and said, ‘Where did the dog come from?’” Michael said.

Cleo was standoffish, but Colton had a vet check her for a microchip — and she had one. Britney Colton recognized the name and told her husband, “That’s the people that used to live here.”

A week earlier, the owners had posted on Facebook that Cleo had vanished. They were gobsmacked when the call came from Colton.

“It’s the most bizarre story. Really, she’s everything to us and to my mother,” said Drew, who the TV station didn’t identify by last name. “It just feels really good to be reunited with her.”