Genza

A pretty cool thing happened last night that we wanted to tell you about. A West Philly Local reader, Holly, contacted us to tell us that her family found a large brown male dog with cropped ears near 49th and Chester. The dog was found around 7 p.m. He had a collar but no tags. He was docile, clean, and well fed, “clearly someone’s pet.” 

Just when we were about to share this information, we got a message from another reader, Sara, who was looking for her dog, a 13-year-old Mastiff named Genza who went missing from S. 47th and Kingsessing yesterday. The key words in Genza’s description provided by Sara were “large” and “cropped ears” so we immediately contacted Holly with this information. And guess what, Holly’s family had Genza! The dog was reunited with his family just after a few hours he was lost.

“Amazing!…This is one very loved dog and he had a lot of us worried sick,” Sara wrote us later.

We’re very happy for Genza’s quick and safe return to his family and want to thank Holly and her family. We have some of the best readers in the world!