GREENSBORO, N.C. — A lost dog in North Carolina is on his way to being reunited with his family in New Mexico after a deadly holiday car crash.
Coolyay, a 1-year-old American pit bull terrier, ran away from the scene of an accident in Greensboro just before Christmas.
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He showed up two weeks later, as luck would have it, in the yard of animal rescue worker, Lisa Gonzalez.
The Bannerman family lost their 11-year-old daughter, Tori, when their minivan collided with a tractor-trailer on Dec. 18 as they were traveling to see relatives for Christmas.
Making matters even worse for the family, their beloved dog disappeared.
Gonzalez has created a GoFundMe page to help cover the costs of transporting Coolyay 1,600 miles back to his family in Albuquerque.