Markie has been found 100 kilometres away from home and he has been reunited with his owners.

"He's here. He's looking a little tired and stressed, but overall, he's OK," said owner Neha Sharma.

The nine-year-old Lhasa-poodle pup was inside a Nissan left running in a Brampton temple parking lot Wednesday night, Dec. 12, when the vehicle was stolen.

His owners appealed for help finding their beloved pooch.

The dog was found in a different stolen car — a Toyota — in the parking lot of a Newmarket strip plaza Thursday. Someone spotted the dog and called animal control. When animal control officers in Newmarket scanned him, his chip gave them a phone number to call, said Sharma.

She was grateful to all of the media and members of the public for their help in getting the word out, and noted it was his microchip that brought him back home so quickly.

"At least they left him in a car," she said. His collar with his tagsand his green jacket were missing.

She had some advice for other dog owners, too.

"Anyone who's thinking of cheaping out on the $50 (for a microchip), this got us our dog back," she said.

This is the second time a car containing a dog has been stolen in Brampton. The first was Paws, a labradoodle that was found two days later running loose in the area of Ray Lawson Boulevard and Hurontario Street, right near where the vehicle had been stolen.