Blue the pit bull mix has been adopted after a 2,800-mile trek and a heartbreaking rejection, according to media reports.
She went missing from her Florida home, only to turn up in Michigan, and then was driven 1,400 miles back to Florida — where her owner didn’t want her — and driven all the way back up to Michigan.
So it’s been a whirlwind week for Blue. But with a happy outcome.
A Michigan man has given the dog a new forever home, the Detroit Free Press reported.
The known part of Blue’s saga began on March 3 when she was found wandering in Midland, Mich., and taken to a local shelter, where staffers checked her implanted microchip. They learned that Blue’s home was in Lehigh Acres, near Fort Myers.
Still unknown is how Blue got from Florida to Michigan.
“We don’t know how she got here in the first place,” said Beth Wellman, of Humane Society of Midland County, to the Fort Myers News-Press newspaper.
Contact was made with Blue’s owner in Florida, who said she would take the dog back, the News-Press reported.
But when a volunteer in Michigan drove Blue back home, the Florida owner had had a change of heart and no longer wanted the dog, saying she didn’t have time to care for her.
The volunteer, who reportedly didn’t want her name made public, then drove Blue back up north where she was placed back in the care of the Humane Society of Midland County.
Blue’s epic adventure, which garnered headlines around the country, inspired many dog lovers to inquire about adopting her.
According to the Detroit Free Press, Blue was “adopted by a man who was the first person to fill out an adoption application for her.”
On the shelter’s Facebook page, a photo captioned “Blue and her new Dad!!!!” showed Blue with her smiling new owner.