Dog That Disappeared on Newark Street Returned to Owners

A New Jersey couple has been reunited with its missing dog after an NBC 4 New York report aired Wednesday.

Grant Parseghian and Jackie Giuffre say their nearly 2-year-old rescue dachshund-chihuahua mix Zuzu was returned to them Thursday, two days after it went missing in downtown Newark. 

Parseghian says he tied up Zuzu on a downtown Newark strip as he dashed into a store Tuesday. When he returned less than five minutes later, the dog was gone and witnesses told him they saw a woman walking away with the dog.

Jackie Giuffre said, "We always tie her up, and we just didn't think that anything would have happened."  

On Thursday, someone who had the dog saw NBC 4 New York's report and called the number on Zuzu's collar, according to Parseghian and Giuffre.

How the person wound up with the dog isn't clear, but the couple didn't ask any questions. They say they're just happy to have Zuzu back. 

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