Nearly five years after her rescue dog disappeared, Patricia Orozco still thought about Choco every day.

“I still talked about him all the time,” she said. “I wondered what he’s doing; I wondered how he is … When you have a pet disappear, everything races through your mind. … Is he alive? Is he okay? Is he being treated well?”

Then, unexpectedly, Orozco — who lives in Sacramento — received a text from a microchip company. Choco had been found — 2, 300 miles away in Lincoln, Michigan.

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