{"id":260333,"date":"2026-05-06T08:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260333\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:40:24","slug":"florida-deputies-reuniting-dog-last-seen-in-new-mexico-with-owner-after-12-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260333\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida deputies reuniting dog last seen in New Mexico with owner after 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/serria-husky.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Courtesy: Hernando County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">BROOKSVILLE, Fla. &#8211; A 13-year-old Husky is being reunited with her owner after 12 years of being apart.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The Husky named Sierra arrived at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hernando\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">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 data-v-871f4c88=\"\">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 data-v-871f4c88=\"\">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 original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">While with animal services, Sierra received:<\/p>\n<p> Medical treatmentMedicated bathsDaily walks and enrichmentAnd &#8220;endless love&#8221; from staff and volunteers <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">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=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was collected from the Hernando County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hernando\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hernando County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Hernando County Sheriff&#8217;s Office BROOKSVILLE, Fla. &#8211; A 13-year-old Husky is being reunited with her owner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,28,30,29,8705,115,628],"class_list":["post-260333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hernando","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260333","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=260333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}