{"id":260280,"date":"2026-05-06T07:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260280\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:16:19","slug":"florida-deputies-reuniting-dog-last-seen-in-new-mexico-with-owner-after-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260280\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida deputies reuniting dog last seen in New Mexico with owner after 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After 12 years apart, a 13-year-old Husky named Sierra is being reunited with her owner, Bryce, who had last seen her in New Mexico before she vanished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sierra was found as a stray in Hernando County where she received essential medical treatment and &#8220;endless love&#8221; from shelter staff to prepare her for the trip back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Despite the massive gap in time and distance, a successful microchip scan allowed deputies to track down Bryce, who had never stopped wondering what happened to his long-lost companion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BROOKSVILLE, Fla. &#8211; A 13-year-old Husky is being reunited with her owner after 12 years of being apart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The backstory<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Husky named Sierra arrived at <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hernando\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Hernando County;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Hernando County<\/a> Sheriff&#8217;s Office Animal Services as a stray on April 8. Deputies say she was thing, missing patches of fur, and moving slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The sheriff&#8217;s office scanned her microchip, which led them to a phone number and a man named Bryce. Bryce hadn&#8217;t seen Sierra in 12 years and had last known her to be in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bryce never stopped wondering what happened to her and never expected to find her in a shelter 1,400 miles away in Brooksville, officials say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While with animal services, Sierra received:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Daily walks and enrichment<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And &#8220;endless love&#8221; from staff and volunteers<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deputies say with the help of We Rate Dogs and a sponsorship from Best Western, Sierra started her journey to Texas and back to Bryce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information for this story was collected from the Hernando County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief After 12 years apart, a 13-year-old Husky named Sierra is being reunited with her owner, Bryce,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,7086,19875],"class_list":["post-260280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hernando-county","tag-new-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}