'Flyaway' chihuahua reunited with owners

The Utleys were finally reunited with Tinker Bell three days after she disappeared into thin air

A tiny chihuahua which was blown away by a massive gust of wind has been reunited with her owners after a pet psychic stepped in.

Tinker Bell, a long-haired chihuahua weighing just 2.7kg, was caught in a huge storm near Detroit, in the US state of Michigan, on Saturday.

"The storm came up real bad," devastated owner Lavern Utley told local paper the Oakland Press after the black and brown dog vanished into thin air.

"We had her on a leash connected to a cooler and the wind blew the cooler over and she just disappeared.

"We looked for Tinker Bell for hours in nearby fields and weren’t able to find her," Mr Utley added.

Dog dirty, hungry, but unharmed

Mr Utley's sons, grandson, and 50 other friends and relatives spent spent days hunting for the lost pet - with no luck.

But after the family's pleas for help were published, a pet psychic told them to search for her in a wooded area nearly 1.5km from where she was last seen.

The Utleys say their tiny dog was found - dirty and hungry, but otherwise fine - just where the psychic suggested.

Dorothy Utley told The Detroit News that her cherished pet "just went wild" upon seeing her.

"That dog was so happy," she said.
 

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