Bea and Hal Colby with Missy

Two Christmas angels is what Bea Colby calls them after they knocked on her door and returned her prized pet, a beautiful small Pomeranian that had gotten out without her knowledge.

A few days before, when she got up from bed to go and check on her three house dogs, Missy was gone.“My wife was very upset; she looked everywhere in the house, but Missy wasn’t there,” said Hal Colby.

The couple lives on Huntdale Street across from Lehigh Regional Medical Center and apparently the night that the hospital held its Christmas lighting program, Mrs. Colby had opened the door for some reason, but she didn’t see Missy run out.

“It had to be the only time that she could have gotten out,” Bea said, with tears in her eyes.Her husband said they got in their car and rode all over the weekend while his wife shouted out the door ‘Missy Girl, Missy Girl,’ but to no avail.

The little dog was nowhere to be found and the Colbys feared that she may have tried to get across busy Lee Boulevard and would have been killed, or maybe someone picked her up and they would never see her again.Mrs. Colby had been hospitalized for a week prior to Missy Girl’s departure and seeing her little dog, the smallest of the three, made her feel better when she returned home.

'Missy Girl'

“But then it happened, Missy disappeared and I thought Bea was going to cry herself to death. We looked and looked. I even made up a poster but we couldn’t find our little Missy,” Hal Colby said.Little Missy is three years old and loves people,” the Colbys said.

When Bea woke up on Sunday morning as is her habit at around 5:30 a.m., she lets all three of the dogs outside in the backyard in a fenced-in yard. But where was Missy Baby, Bea kept asking her husband over and over.”I cried all day long; I just couldn’t help it,” Bea said, looking up at her husband who nodded.But what they didn’t know is that little Missy Baby had not been hit.And what they didn’t know was that a couple found her on the sidewalk just inches from Lee Blvd.

They approached the little dog and called out a name that sounded something like “Missy” and the dog let them pick her up.”They had to be Christmas angels,” Bea Colby said, drying her eyes.And also what they didn’t know was that this couple had gone through the neighborhood trying to right the rightful owners of the sweet little dog that they had found.They knocked on a lot of doors in the immediate area, but could not find out who owned the little dog.

Unable to find the dog’s owner, they took her home, but the next day they started off their quest again to find the owners of Missy.Finally they knocked on a neighbor who lives behind the Colbys. This lady was familiar with Missy and promptly let the couple know who the owners where and pointed toward the house behind her yard.

She told them she saw Missy from time to time running around and playing her the back yard.”The couple came and knocked on our door and they had Missy with them and they said, ‘we think we have your little dog’ as Bea heard the knock and came running to the front door.

“We were just awe-struck as Missy Girl jumped into Bea’s arms, licking her face and showing her love after being gone for several hours.Hal Colby said they were so excited that never asked the names of the people who returned the dog.

“And we are very sorry that we didn’t. We are so appreciate of them picking her up and keeping her from being killed. It was just a miracle that Missy went to them and didn’t dash across Lee Blvd., in all the traffic,We went to find them and let them know how happy they made up; how they have made our Christmas, but we don’t know who they are. We would love for them to call us so we can talk to them,” Hal said.

If you found the little while Pomeranian, you can call 303-0289.Hal and Bea Colby had finally reconciled themselves that they would never see Missy again.Then a couple knocks on their door and there she is.

“They are our Christmas angles,” Bea Colby said. “I know it was meant for them to find her. What else can they be but angels,” Bea Colby asked. Missy came running to sit in her lap.

“We want to thank these people and we hope they will see the story in the paper or a friend will and tell them about it.”With Christmas coming, they had to be angles because they found her. We want to know who they are and apologize for not getting their names when they stopped by our house. We were just in shock, I think,” Hal Colby said.”This is one of the best Christmases ever because Missy is back at home,” Bea said as she hugged Missy Girl.