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Anyone who’s owned a dog can understand the despair you encounter if it manages to run away, and a woman in Louisiana spent five years assuming she’d never see her Yorkshire terrier again after it disappeared in 2020. However, she was finally reunited with the help of a frat at Southern Mississippi that welcomed it into the fold after it wandered into their backyard.
Most people would probably agree that the stereotypical frat house is not exactly an ideal environment for a dog, but with that said, having a group of dudes who are willing to chip in to take care of one certainly isn’t the worst situation.
According to The Washington Post, the fraternity brothers residing in the Kappa Sigma house at the University of Southern Mississippi this year didn’t have a dog when they arrived on campus, but they found themselves taking care of one at the end of March when Neal Rachal, the frat’s president, discovered a Yorkshire terrier wandering in their backyard at the end of may.
He was able to wrangle him and bring him inside the frat house where he was dubbed “Benji,” and the Yorkie subsequently served as a mascot at an intramural softball game and tagged along on a trip to the grocery store as they attempted to track down its owner.
They were able to do exactly that after the vice president of the frat brought Benji to a vet on March 31st to scan the microchip that was used to track down the owner of the Yorkie, who was actually named Kingston and belonged to Debbie LaFleur, who resided approximately 250 miles away in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
LaFleur said she returned home in the fall of 2020 and discovered Kingston was nowhere to be found (she assumed he had managed to escape through a broken window that had been damaged in Hurricane Laura a couple of months before). She and her husband launched a frantic search, but they eventually accepted he might be gone for good after failing to track him down.
The couple rescued a Shih Tzu named Cooper the following year, but in 2022, LaFleur suffered another loss after her husband passed away. She initially thought she was being scammed when she received the message informing her Kingston had been found but made the four-hour trek to Southern Miss for an emotional reunion after confirming the news was real.
🚨#BREAKING: A Yorkie puppy that has been missing for 5 years after Hurricane Laura in 2020, was reunited with his owner yesterday.
The dog walked into a frat-house in Southern Mississippi, 300 miles away from home… the boys called the owner and reunited them.
AMAZING!!! pic.twitter.com/WIaBUJGeFS
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) April 8, 2025
The dog’s temporary owners went out of their way to officially honor him before he headed back to Louisiana by initiating him into the frat and giving Benji/Kingston a letter that certified the fact that he “exemplified the values of a true Kappa Sigma man.”
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