Dog and late owner's grieving family 'both cry together' upon reunion months after disappearance

A missing dog is back at home months after an emotional plea from a Metro Vancouver family grieving the loss of his owner.

A missing dog is back at home months after an emotional plea from a Metro Vancouver family grieving the loss of his owner.

The husky-shepherd cross named Chief disappeared back in July.

His owner's mother, Dolores Dignan, said she'd let him out into her Burnaby backyard in the morning and went back inside to get ready for the day.

She heard two barks in her yard, she told CTV News at the time, then came downstairs and realized Chief was gone.

Dolores said she was devastated.

She'd lost her son, Darryl, in March of that year. Chief was Darryl's dog, and since his death, the dog had barely left Dolores's side.

"He's really all I have left of my son," she said at the time, wondering if the dog had been stolen from her yard.