A dog was lost for 5 years. Then he showed up at a fraternity house.
Neal Rachal walked out the back door of his fraternity house and saw an unexpected visitor: a light brown Yorkshire Terrier wearing a tiny red shirt.
Rachal, president of Kappa Sigma at the University of Southern Mississippi, figured the dog had run off from another house on Fraternity Row, so he sent a picture of the Yorkshire Terrier to his neighbors.
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