An
elderly black lab named Lady, who made headlines for walking 30 miles
to return to the family that gave her up, will get to live out the rest
of her days in comfort at the home of a wealthy Florida heiress. Her new mom sent a private plane to pick her up yesterday.
Lady first landed in a Sedan, Kansas animal shelter after her original owner passed away in 2012, KCTV reported.
She quickly grew attached to the first family that adopted her, but
they felt she was too rough with their puppy and worried she wasn't
friendly toward little dogs. They returned her to the shelter.
She
was adopted by a second family in Independence, Kan., earlier this
summer, but Lady missed her previous home so much that she escaped and
pulled a Homeward Bound, walking 30 miles to reunite with the owners who'd rejected her.
After
that, neither of Lady's adopted families would take her back, so the
old dog boomeranged back to the shelter for the third time.
That's
where Wrigley Gum heiress Helen Rosburg comes in. Well-known as a dog
lover, Rosburg once helped out a U.S. Marine who was going to lose his
dogs by chartering a private plane to transport them across the country (they were too big for a commercial flight).
Rosburg
just hired a private jet for Lady, too. She's personally adopted the
dog, who will live at her 10,000 square-foot home on a 120-acre Odessa, Fla., farm, home to 300 rescue animals.
It couldn't have happened to a better dog.
"Super
dog. Gentle, calm dog," Sedan animal shelter worker Kelsey Loyd told
KCTV, "If I had to pick a dog, this would have been the dog I would
take."
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