Meatball is blind, deaf and 15 years old (at least), but that doesn't stop him from getting around his home turf in Lacombe.

"He's a bit of a wanderer," said owner Chuck Gorney.

That wandering took a turn for the worse Monday when Meatball got lost. Gorney said the family searched and searched but couldn't find the 10-pound Shih Tzu.

Gorney's family had equipped the pooch with an AirTag to track his whereabouts. The AirTag was showing Meatball in a location near the Gorneys' property.

But there was no sign of the dog where the device was telling them to look, Chuck Gorney said.

"We were frantically searching," he said. "I was just baffled."

Monday turned into Tuesday, and still no Meatball sighting. Then, Gorney said, there was a bark and what sounded like an echo.

Meatball had made

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