The next week’s events continued to be an “unbelievable” story for Comer, where neighbors and community members from nearby towns would contact her from her missing dog ads and send any footage or photos where they may have spotted Athena.

Athena, a 4-year-old German Shepherd and Husky mix, escaped her home in Green Cove Springs, near Jacksonville, on Dec. 15.

Athena disappeared from her Florida home on Dec. 15 and had her family worried they would spend the holidays without their beloved pet