Woman feeds lonely shelter dog bacon strips. Then dog escapes and tracks her down

     



       
     

They say sometimes animals choose the person, rather than the other way around, and this certainly seems to be the case for Abbey and her new dog Ted.

The two met in January when Abbey was working her shift at the SPCA, where Ted had been brought to the day before.

 He was timid and quiet and only interacted with Abbey when she tried to take him on a walk (he refused to) and fed him some cheese-flavored bacon.

She also tried to get a bigger kennel for him, but besides that, she explains, “I hadnext to no contact with Ted during my shift at the SPCA.

 I left and went home.”


     



The next morning she woke up around 3 A.M. to get ready for her job at the airport, and when she came home, she saw a stray dog sitting at her home.

At first, she was wary of the dog, but she decided to approach him. 

It did take a while for him to get close enough to her, but she noticed a small nick on his nose- the same as the one she had seen on Ted the day before.

“That’s when I realized that it had to be Ted,” she said.After a quick call to SPCA, she was able to confirm that the dog in her house wasindeed Ted.
       
      



       No one seems sure how Ted knew how to get to her home. 

The shelter was 5.5 kilometers away from Abbey’s home and would have had to run past an airport, several neighborhoods, ponds, and lakes to get to her exact house.