The Mejeurs posted notices, got help from volunteers and hired a professional pet searcher. No luck.
DuPage County authorities got a call last week from a couple in Glendale Heights who had noticed Lola the past few years going into a forest preserve. They had been leaving food for the dog and earned her trust.
A microchip revealed Lola's owners.
"I still had an ounce of hope, I guess, but the majority of me was thinking she had already crossed the rainbow bridge. I was just completely stunned," Debra Mejeur said.
Lola wagged her tail when she smelled her old blanket.
Of course, no one knows how the dog survived for three years.
"If she could talk," Debra Mejeur said.
