When Guilbeault saw Damian again, he was visibly older and scruffier than he had been eight years earlier, but he was undeniably his dog, wagging his tail upon reuniting with his owner. Guilbeault said he has no idea where Damian spent the previous eight years.

A heartwarming reunion in Arizona was nearly a decade in the making. A man now has his lost dog back eight years after he went missing.

Damian, Paul Guilbeault’s miniature pinscher, went missing in 2017 while he and his family were in the middle of a cross-country move.