‘A Piece Of Him Is Home’

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A girl has been reunited with her pet dog, who ran away when her fiancé was killed in a automobile crash.

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Annmarie Fasano and her fiancé, Michael James March, adopted “Shadow” two yrs in the past.

“We got the doggy, and it was our pet dog. We acquired a property collectively. We acquired our lives with each other,” Fasano advised CBS2’s Ali Bauman.

On Jan. 30, March was driving on the Belt Parkway with Shadow when he misplaced command of the wheel and was killed.

“Tthe pet would not leave the motor vehicle. He just needed to stay with him, and when they went to cut him out of the auto, they had to smash the window. The doggy ran off, he obtained terrified,” Fasano claimed.

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Enter NYPD Freeway Patrol Officer Kevin Lengthy.

“I have 3 canines and one particular of them is a Cane Corso, and as soon as I discovered out that the proprietor handed away, I felt truly negative that the pet dog was nevertheless missing, and I explained, alright, very well, I’m gonna do what I can to assistance find this doggy,” Extensive said.

He teamed up with numerous volunteers to search for Shadow.

“I walked I do not know how a lot of miles,” stated Teddy Henn, with Lengthy Island Dropped Canine Lookup and Rescue.

“They have been out there working day and evening on the lookout for the doggy,” Fasano claimed.

When the significant snow storm hit previously this week, Fasano was so apprehensive she started to drop hope. But it was the snow that basically served them observe Shadow down.

“Finally found some prints,” Henn stated.

Friday, Extensive brought his individual canine to Marine Park to stick to Shadow’s pawprints.

“As I’m adhering to her, she stops in her tracks and just stares straight ahead, and then I seem and I see him,” Extended stated.

After six times of hunting, Shadow and Fasano had been reunited.

“I was so satisfied, I couldn’t feel it,” Fasano reported. “I can’t carry my fiancé back again, at least a piece of him is dwelling, you know. He’s home.”

For the initial time considering that her fiancé died, Fasano smiled.

“When anything like this happens, you know there is very good folks,” she stated.

In the loneliest minute of her life, a team of strangers introduced part of her spouse and children home.

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