Starlight

 

I don’t know how Roc lost his family. Maybe someone left a door open for a moment. Maybe he wriggled under a gate or jumped the fence. Maybe he slipped his collar and went on walkabout. I know it happened on a hot summer day in 2019, in North Charleston, South Carolina. His family did everything they could think of to find their dog and bring him home, but Roc was simply gone. Until this week, that is. Roc was found living as a stray in St. Stephen, more than thirty miles away. He was brought to the Berkeley Animal Center, where his microchip was read and he was reunited with the family who’d been missing him three and a half years. Had Roc walked all that way on his own? Was he a stray, living by his wits the whole time? His loved ones may never know. But at least they have their sweet boy back again.