Toronto police say a dog taken from a woman while she was unconscious in October has now been safely returned to its owner two months later.

Police say a dog named Charlie was taken from a public washroom at Kipling subway station at around 4:10 p.m. on Oct. 27. Charlie’s owner, Toronto resident Venessa Shibley, was suffering from a medical episode and woke up to find her dog missing.

“(I have) a sleeping disorder, and I felt like it might come on, so I just went to the bathroom for a second and I (fell) asleep for about a minute or a minute-and-a-half, tops,” Shibley told the Star Friday hours before the dog was returned.

“In that minute-minute-and-a-half, there was a girl in the bathroom that thought that something funny was going on, and she actually taped the girl that stole my dog … and she sent it to me, because she saw one of my posters (saying the dog was missing) on the subway and called me.”

Charlie the dog had a nametag on him.

Police issued a news release about a theft on Friday, nearly eight weeks after the incident, along with security camera images of the suspect holding the dog.

Police said that a person — not the woman in the camera images — turned Charlie over to them on Friday evening. The person also updated all of Charlie’s shots and bought him a new coat.

Police declined to comment on the relationship between the person who turned Charlie in and the woman in the photos.

Back in November, police wrote in a Facebook post that the woman may have taken the dog because she was “most likely concerned for the dogs welfare.” But after waiting months for her to return the dog, their patience had run thin.

TY Tom Yun is a breaking news reporter, working out of the Star's radio room in Toronto. Follow him on Twitter: @thetomyun