This isn't just a "dog found after 16 days lost in the wilderness" story. It also makes Paxton, Ill., sound like a pretty good place to live. It sounds like a lot of people in town spent their spare time looking for the couple's dog:
In the following days, they papered the town with fliers with the dog's picture and got help from the local radio station, as well as the police chief and fire chief and their families, who put many hours of their own free time into the search for Abby, too.
I've lived in a couple of small towns, though, and sometimes the natives are nicer to strangers than they are to their neighbors (you know, the lousy newcomer ones who've lived there only 30 or 40 years).
