Missing for eight months, Sudbury-area Chihuahua mix reunited with owners

It’s a story of survival and perseverance. A Chihuahua and terrier mix named Diamond, was recently reunited with her owners after going missing in Markstay-Warren in March.

Diamond's owner, Steve Comeau, said he left the gate "slightly open," and his seven dogs escaped. All quickly returned except for Diamond.

"We put it out on social media that she's missing and that was the beginning of March and (we) hadn't heard a word – nothing," Comeau said.

"Thank God for my wife. She bought collars for all the dogs that had their names and our phone number and Pet Save called us up a few days ago and said, 'We believe we have your dog.'"

Trish Stahl, who has worked with Pet Save for more than a decade, said she was tagged in a Facebook post three months ago that showed a dog that kept appearing on a trail camera nearby.

Stahl said she worked with a woman named Amanda who allowed her to set traps in her backyard in hopes of catching the dog.

At first, they weren’t getting results because the traps weren’t being set off because the dog was so small.

A Chihuahua and terrier mix named Diamond has been reunited with her owners after going missing in Markstay-Warren in March. (Photo from video)

"We were catching raccoons. We were catching, you know, skunks," she said.

"We were catching bears ... coming into her yard now, so I wasn't too sure if she would, you know, keep going on with this because it's been now, you know, quite a while. And she kept on saying, sure."

Finally on Thanksgiving Day, Diamond was captured. Once Stahl brought her back to Pet Save, they realized she had a collar and called the number.

That's when she realized that the dog had been living in the wild for eight months, not three.

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"Right away, the lady said, 'Diamond?' So, as I’m standing there with the puppy in my arms and she's in my chest, I said to her, 'Is your name Diamond? And that little pup looked up at me and started kissing me on the face."

"My wife and I were in tears to hear that this little eight-inch tall, five-pound dog made it in the wild, out in the bush for eight months," Comeau said.

With so much negativity in the world, he wanted to share Diamond's story in hopes of showing people that miracles do happen -- and to hopefully warm people up with positivity.