After the crash, a family is reunited
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Emmy is back with her family in San Diego.
The 11-year-old Jack Russell terrier was ejected from her owners’ car as it crashed and rolled off Interstate 15 early Thursday. MaryBeth Zmuda and her husband, Timon Martin, were not injured but soon became frantic when they couldn’t find Emmy.
They searched, they called. Finally they placed an ad, with Emmy’s picture, on Craigslist and called KUSI-TV. Complicating matters, the couple has just moved to San Diego and not had time to get tags for Emmy.
A woman recognized Emmy as the dog she had spotted about three miles from the crash site and had called county Animal Services to report. Calls were made, and pet and people were reunited Friday.
‘It’s really beyond belief, it’s heaven,’ said Zmuda.
Before they took Emmy home from the Animal Services shelter in Carlsbad, Zmuda and Martin got some insurance against her being lost again: a microchip implanted in her skin. If she ever shows up at a shelter, workers can use a scanner to read her address and phone number.
--Tony Perry
Photo: Zmuda/Martin family album