Stolen Florida Dog Found in Maryland

CHESAPEAKE CITY, Md. - Walking past the rows of forgotten animals at the Cecil County SPCA, Debby Stevens had a sickening thought: What if, after weeks of worry and more than a thousand miles of travel, the dog being housed here was not, in fact, her Brody?

Inside the indicated cage, a black Labrador lay prostrate on the concrete floor.

"Brody?" Stevens asked.

The dog leapt up; Stevens began to cry.

"There was no doubt about it," recalled the SPCA staff member who took Stevens through the kennel. "That dog just came alive."

Two weeks earlier, Debby Stevens awoke in her Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., home and found that Brody, her family's 9-year-old lab, had not returned home. She knew something was wrong.

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