It is cold in Boise, Idaho, in January.
On the morning of January 14, 2015, at around 6:45 a.m., a 71-year-old man started up his 2008 Cadillac CTS sedan in front of his house near the intersection of North Allumbaugh Street and West Morris Hill Lane.
The man then went back into the house to allow the car to warm up. Two minutes later, he heard his car speeding away, with his beloved pet inside — a 3-year-old female miniature pinscher named Minnie.
At 3 p.m. that afternoon, the man’s Cadillac was found abandoned nearly 5 miles away on the 1400 block of South Colorado Avenue just east of Broadway and Highland, but Minnie was not inside.
Minnie wasn’t wearing a collar but was wearing a red and brown checkered vest. She weighs about 3 pounds and has a two-tone brown coat.
Her owner said, “She’s quite smart and she is very well behaved. I would rather have her than the car, I’ll tell you that. It would mean everything to me to get her back.”
The news of Minnie was published on the Idaho Statesman that day.
Happily, a day later, Minnie was reunited with her owner when she showed up at a house near Gowen and Victory. (Source: Idaho Statesman)
What’s the significance of that house near Gowen and Victory?
It’s the man’s (and Minnie’s) former home.
The little 3-lb. dog somehow managed to find her way from the 1400 block of South Colorado Ave. where the thief had abandoned the Cadillac, to her former home at Gowen and Victory — a journey of many miles on little feet.
I plotted the locations on Google Map so that we have some idea of the journey undertaken by that little braveheart of a dog:
St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that there are nine orders of angels, but only the last five angelic orders (Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Archangels, Angels) minister to bodily creatures and, of them, only the last three minister to human beings. That, of course, suggests two angelic orders — those of Virtues and Powers — minister to nonhuman bodily creatures, including animals whom St. Bonaventure called “creatures without sin.”
Minnie’s guardian angel must have been working over time!
~Eowyn