LOST AND FOUND: Local dentist reunited with lost dog after 5 years
by Mark McDermott Five years ago, Brian Withers experienced every dog owner’s worst nightmare. His little buddy Luke, a seven-pound Maltese mix, disappeared, as if into thin air. It happened in the early afternoon of July 16, 2018. He and Luke were just hanging out in the front yard of Withers’ home on the 200 block of 13th Street, the walk street around the corner from Uncle Bill’s Pancake House on Highland, across from the Ocean View Cafe. One of Luke’s favorite pastimes was to watch the people on the patios of both restaurants come and go. Suddenly, Luke wasn’t there. He’d sometimes saunter out to greet a passerby, but this time, he was nowhere in sight. “I go to look, and it doesn’t take long for your adrenaline to release the butterflies in your stomach,” Withers recalled. “You are thinking, ‘Wait a second. Something is not right here.’” Withers asked people sitting at the cafe if they’d seen a little white dog. Two young kids said they’d seen someone pick up a dog matching that description and walk off with him. Uncertain, Withers checked with his neighbor, Richard Podgurski, because Luke often paid him visits. Nothing. He searched the neighborhood all day, and over the next…
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