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ALEDO — How many lives does a dog have? Callie, the nearly blind dog, proved she has more than one.

Missing since Feb. 13, the 13-plus-year-old St. Bernard, springer spaniel mix was miraculously found about two miles away from her rural Aledo home.

When Jan Pearson got the call Friday morning that her dog was found — she didn’t believe it. She had told her neighbor there was no way Callie could survive the extreme low temperatures combined with snow, freezing rain and sleet.

She thought, “This isn’t going to be my dog, I’m going to be devastated all over again.”

Pearson believes it was the commotion after a kitchen fire the day before that sent the dog wandering from their home between Gilchrist and Matherville. The damage was confined to the small space and happened when they used stove burners to keep warm, like they had done many times before.

She said it could have been a lot worse.

“We didn’t really lose anything, and no one got hurt,” she said.

The following morning, people were in and out of their home, assessing the damage. Callie, let out to do her business, didn’t return when they called for her.