Dog back with a Christmas tale

Bruce McDermott isn't the sort of bloke you'd expect to cry, but right now he can't hold back the tears.
The stoic Upper Hutt father, who put his intellectually disabled adult son into respite care to give him a "less lonely and better Christmas" than he could provide, then a day later lost his beloved pet chihuahua, was almost lost for words yesterday after the dog's return.

David, owned by Mr McDermott's son, Shaun, went missing from a friend's house in Petone on Christmas Day. Four years ago, a Dominion Post story prompted David's return after he and the McDermotts' other chihuahua were stolen from a van. MORE>>