{"id":3265,"date":"2025-09-05T12:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:59:57","slug":"a-rescue-dog-came-home-with-us-the-next-night-my-8-year-old-son-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=3265","title":{"rendered":"A Rescue Dog Came Home with Us \u2014 The Next Night, My 8-Year-Old Son Disappeared"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What started as a simple trip to adopt a dog turned into the most terrifying night of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My son, Andy, had been begging for a dog for months. When we visited the shelter, he immediately fell in love with Daisy \u2014 a scruffy, sweet pup who clearly needed love. I agreed, even though my wife, Kelly, had wanted a small, tidy dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That night, Daisy wouldn\u2019t settle. Kelly offered to calm her down, and a few minutes later, the whining stopped. I thought nothing of it \u2014 until I woke up at 3 a.m. to a terrifying sight: Andy\u2019s bed was empty, the window open, and Daisy gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Panic surged as we searched the house and called the police. Hours later, our neighbor reported seeing a boy near the woods. I raced there and found Andy shivering under a tree, clutching Daisy. He sobbed, thinking Daisy had run away because of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back home, relief quickly turned to anger. When I asked how Daisy got out, Kelly broke down and admitted the truth \u2014 she had let Daisy out, hoping Andy would forget about her. She never imagined he\u2019d run after the dog in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was furious, but looking at Andy and Daisy curled up together, I knew one thing for sure: Daisy wasn\u2019t just a pet. She was family. And now, it was time for all of us to learn what that really meant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What started as a simple trip to adopt a dog turned into the most terrifying night of my life. My son, Andy, had been begging for a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":1646,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3267,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}