Puppy returns to South Bend house from St. Joseph River, Humane Modern society
Ramona Cruz interacts with Pinto, her family’s dog that was recently recovered from a steep riverbank after getting loose, on Friday outside their home in South Bend.

SOUTH BEND — When he escaped through a gap in his yard’s fence, Pinto somehow slipped out of the nice, leather-based collar that his family members experienced purchased him, labeled “Pinto el Vago” — which is Spanish for “Pinto the Vagabond.” 

That inscription was prophetic. The fairly black, brown and white puppy would at some point make his way five miles north to a bank of the St. Joseph River, wherever volunteers and firefighters would rescue him by boat. 

But, Ramona Cruz explained, in the approximately a few many years because they’d bought him from an Amish household, he’s in no way operate off. Then once again, it also was the to start with time they’d experienced a gap in the fence. Cruz, her partner and three young ones, ages 8 to 30, called him “el Vago” because he’d continually roam the yard. 

Pinto's back home now after living along the St. Joseph River for more than a week, before being rescued by volunteers and Clay Fire Territory firefighters with the department's rescue boat.

“He just hardly ever stopped,” she mentioned. 

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