FOUND: Missing Dog 'Sam' Reunited with Family

UPDATE: Saturday

Sam, the missing black lab mix, has been found! Here’s a message from his family, who were visiting Northern Virginia from Kentucky for a wedding when he slipped out of his leash:

“SAM IS FOUND! He made his way back to the house he was staying at when he went missing, waiting in the carport for Drew and Allie this morning. We are grateful that all of our efforts were fruitful in bringing our family back together; but, we also learned a lot about ourselves and our community: people are good, and we must at times know to ask for help and be ready to give it.

Words don’t do our mood justice, but suffice it to say that we probably woke the neighbors with our screams of joy. Thank you immensely for everything you said, did, and felt that helped bring Sam home. We’re driving to get him on Friday. When you need us, please call on us. We owe you

We especially want to thank Riley and Felicia from Dogs Finding Dogs, a Baltimore area nonprofit, who helped our friends track Sam’s hiding place yesterday and taught them how to lure him out with food and our scent. They helped our community be our eyes, ears and presence when we couldn’t be there in person and we’re so grateful.”

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UPDATE: Sammy, the 2-year old black Lab mix that’s been missing since Saturday night, may have been spotted Monday night near Cardinal Forest Elementary School, according to the dog’s owners.

They think he was spotted near Forrester Drive and and Rolling Road (see map below).

A family from Kentucky, attending a wedding in Northern Virginia over the weekend, reports there dog has gone missing.

The two-year old black Lab mix dog was last seen late Saturday night in the King’s Park neighborhood of Springfield, the owners say.

The dog answers to “Sam,” “Sammy,” “Buddy,” and “Good Boy,” his family says.

“Sam got scared, slipped out of his collar and bolted,” the dog’s owner said in an email from the family’s home in Kentucky. The family, who used to live in Falls Church, were in town for a wedding.

The family drove “as fast as we could and searched for him throughout the night Saturday and all day Sunday before having to return to Kentucky, brokenhearted, last night.”

Sam was last seen on Southampton Road near Parliament in Springfield (see map below), but there was a possible sighting Sunday night off of Lake Braddock Road closer to Burke.

The family alerted veterinary offices and shelters from Fairfax Station to Annandale (thinking he could be on his way back to their old house in Falls Church), including the Arlington and Alexandria shelters, they said.

If you have any information call: 866-699-3463