{"id":326206,"date":"2026-07-01T17:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326206\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:42:18","slug":"florida-dog-missing-since-april-turns-up-1000-miles-away-at-long-island-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326206\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida dog missing since April turns up 1,000 miles away at Long Island police station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OCALA, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 A missing <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida <\/a>dog is back home with his family after an adventure that somehow took him all the way to<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/NY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apollo, a 13-year-old dog from <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Ocala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ocala<\/a>, disappeared from his family&#8217;s home in April, leaving his owners searching for answers and hoping for the best. Months later, they got an unexpected call: Apollo had been found more than 1,000 miles away at a police station on Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>His owner, Nicholas Josey, traveled to New York on Friday to bring him home.<\/p>\n<p>The reunion was a happy one for the family, who never gave up hope that Apollo would eventually make it back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had no doubt the whole time he&#8217;ll make it back home; it&#8217;s just mind-blowing that he was all the way in New York,\u201d Josey said.<\/p>\n<p>he went to New York, he went to New York before any of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See also:<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/jafco-childrens-ability-center-helps-families-of-children-with-disabilities-thrive-forever-family-florida-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> JAFCO Children&#8217;s Ability Center helps families of children with disabilities thrive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exactly how Apollo ended up in New York remains a mystery. His family says they have no idea how the dog made the trip from Central Florida to <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Long%20Island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Long Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>What they do know is that Apollo is finally back where he belongs. To celebrate, the family is already planning a big birthday party when the adventurous pup turns 14 in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCALA, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A missing Florida dog is back home with his family after an adventure that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-326206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326206","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=326206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}