Terrier<\/a> available for adoption through Muttville, a San Francisco rescue organisation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n Related video: <\/p>\n
From the moment they met, there was an instant connection. Something about the dog felt familiar, almost uncanny.<\/p>\n
A DNA test that changes everything<\/p>\n
Back home, the Reiffs were struck by the similarities between Ziggy and their late Rufus. Their behaviour, their expressions, certain habits – the resemblances were too numerous to ignore. Curious, they decided to have the newcomer’s DNA analysed. The results left them speechless: Ziggy was actually… Rufus’s biological father. An incredibly rare coincidence, confirmed by the laboratory, that stunned the entire family.<\/p>\n
Even Sherri Franklin, Muttville’s founder, couldn’t believe it. In nearly twenty years of rescue work, she had never witnessed such a story. For her, as for the Reiffs, it was an incredible surprise that brought comfort when they needed it most.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ziggy, of course, knows nothing of this discovery. But since his adoption, he’s been living peacefully in a loving home, unaware that he has found his way back, by the greatest of chances, to those who had already loved his own son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Rufus, their faithful Rat Terrier, passed away earlier this year, the Reiff family felt an enormous void.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[64,63,25064,336,128],"class_list":["post-25691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-extraordinary-tails","tag-genetics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}