'Lassie's return' produces joy, heartbreak

By Doug Schmitt on February 5, 2012

There was no way this story would have a happy ending for all involved, doggone it.

Not that Lee Eggerichs is unhappy. She was delighted, in fact, when driving this past week along an unfamiliar road not far from her ranch along the Jackson-Jefferson county line east of Mayetta, she spotted what looked like two of her dogs who had broken out of their pens nearly two years ago and hadn’t returned since.