$1,000 to find a dog?

Kevin Rowson with 11 Alive has a story about a Kennesaw couple that has offered a $1,000 reward and spent another $1,000 to find their son’s Yorkshire terrier, posing the question: “How far would you go to find your dog if he or she was missing?”

The ironically named “Bolt” ran off from a relative’s apartment complex the day before Valentine’s Day. He belongs to 7-year-old Cayden Harris, whose parents ask anyone who might know the dog’s whereabouts to call them at 404-931-9096.

West Harris says he wants his son to learn that “Money, time, nothing will come between us finding Bolt,” he said. “If there’s a way that he can be found, we will find him.”

Some viewers were incredulous. In the comments under the story, one person wrote:

Actually, I’ll bet a lot of dog owners would go that far — or farther — to track down a beloved pet.

Last year, I wrote about a Marietta tennis pro who spent five months traveling back and forth between Atlanta and Orlando in search of his lost dog, who went missing while the family was on vacation in Florida. Tim Noonan made the seven-hour drive to Orlando nine times to look for his dog, Jake, put up more than 1,000 fliers, called newspapers and TV stations to get the word out, and had a pet detective analyze maps of southwest Orlando to pinpoint the search. The first month, he paced next to highways at rush hour wearing a sandwich board with the dog’s picture on it.

Tim Noonan with his dog, Jake, and the sandwich board he wore to find him.

Noonan’s efforts were rewarded when he got a call from a golf course groundskeeper who had found Jake and was feeding him hot dogs.

In the Harris’s case, a witness told them they saw a man lure Bolt into a truck in front of the apartment’s mail boxes. Kim Harris thinks the man may have picked up Bolt to help him. “We just know that this person who has him will do the right thing and know that this animal is truly loved very much,” she said.