MIA Dog A-OK After Year in Afghanistan

Bomb-sniffer Sabi gone for a year after 2008 firefight
By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 12, 2009 11:46 AM CST
MIA Dog A-OK After Year in Afghanistan
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and US Gen. Stanley McChrystal pat explosive detection dog Sabi at Forward Operating Base Ripley in Tarin Kowt, Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan.   (AP Photo)

An Australian military bomb-sniffing dog that went missing during a firefight in Afghanistan in September 2008 has been reunited with one of her trainers. An American soldier found Sabi wandering near a remote base last week and realized the black Lab wasn’t a stray when she responded to commands. “She’s the last piece of the puzzle,” says an Australian trooper wounded in the skirmish. “It’s a fantastic morale booster.”

“I nudged a tennis ball to her with my foot and she took it straight away,” one of Sabi’s trainers tells CNN of their recent reunion. “It's a game we used to play over and over again during her training. It’s amazing, just incredible, to have her back.” (More Australia stories.)

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