Mission Viejo animal services officials used a drone to help reunite a lost dog and a distraught owner earlier this week.

Paula McCabe said her German Shepherd mix, named Josie, jumped the fence and ran into the Mission Viejo hills.

"Something had either spooked her or she was just hypersensitive," McCabe said.

Luckily, she had an AirTag on Josie and tracked her to the Covenant Hills neighborhood. McCabe immediately spotted Josie when she arrived to the area but when she called out to her dog, the German Shepherd ran away.

"She just kept darting," McCabe said. "It's like she wasn't listening to anything."

Struggling to catch her dog, McCabe called Mission Viejo Animal Services, which pinpointed the dog's location by using a thermal imaging drone that was donated by the Dedicated Anima

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