Little Rock, Arkansas — An Arkansas family is celebrating after their escaped dog, returns back to their home.
Their doorbell camera alerted them that their dog was sitting right there, right at the front of the house.
“It was just an absolute accident and I forgot them outside not realizing that we had a hole big enough in our fence for one of them to fit through,” said Christina Muñoz Madsen.
Madsen was on her way out the door to get her daughters from school. That’s when she forgot to bring her dogs back in before she left.
“I take the first kid to gymnastics, second kid to dance, and that’s when I realize I don’t think I let the dogs back in,” said Christina.
It had been about an hour, but as she remembered that the dogs were still out, that’s when her phone started to ring.
“My husband calls and says, ‘I just saw Dexter on our ring doorbell camera,'” said Christina.
“We get a notification saying there’s somebody at the front door, and so I happen to pull it up and here’s our dog Dexter sitting on the front porch,” said Dave Madsen.
Dave stayed on the camera’s speaker making sure Dexter didn’t leave. You can hear him on the video, calling and whistling to Dexter to sit.
“Parts of it he’s very confused. He doesn’t know where my voice is coming from, but he can see the doorbell and he jumps up and tries to lick the doorbell a couple times,” said Dave.
Later, the family found out that the hole in the fence led to a backlot that would cause Dexter to walk around busy traffic, outside the neighborhood before circling back to get home.
It was the happy ending the family wanted, with Dexter sitting on the porch waiting for Christina as she got home.
“It was a great reunion and I wish we would have had that on camera because he was just so happy. I was so thankful he was safe. I was so thankful he was okay,” said Christina.
