Midland Park family reunited with missing dog with lymphoma

A dog who slipped off his leash while at a chemotherapy session in Glen Rock is resting back home in Midland Park after being found Wednesday.

Plenty of posters went up around the area to find Sonny, a 5-year-old yellow lab, and bring the dog home to Donna Luciano and John Cornell of Midland Park. In the days that followed many calls came in of sightings but Sonny could not be corralled until Wednesday morning in Fair Lawn.

Lisa Rose Rublack, an active volunteer with the West Milford Animal Shelter, Passaic County Lost and Found Pets and other groups, helped orchestrate the capture of Sonny and the reunion with the family.

The final call that led to finding Sonny came when someone saw him resting near a tree in Fair Lawn.

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"He rested while we gathered our bearings and basically when we approached we knew it would push him into a yard with a fence," Rublack said. "It was a bit rickety so we had a small team ready to help if he escaped the fence. We approached and he went right in the fenced yard and I was able to corner him. His momma and poppa came and leashed him up. It is great news."

Luciano thanked everyone who helped.

"She is our hero," Luciano said of Rublack. "She has given 24/7 effort."

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Sonny was undergoing chemotherapy for lymphoma and will continue treatment now that the search is over.

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