NEW: The prize-winning show dog that disappeared in one of the world's busiest airports for three days has been found and reunited with her family.
The handlers brought Gale and another dog to the Atlanta International airport, where they checked in for their KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight and went through security. Not long after the handlers boarded the Amsterdam-bound plane in Atlanta on Saturday afternoon, they were informed that Gale's kennel was found empty when crews went to load her crate onto the aircraft. The handlers immediately called her owners.
Van Essen said they've been in touch with the airport, the airline as well as the baggage handler, but being thousands of miles away and in different time zones "isn't helping."The American Staffordshire named Gale is seen here in an undated file photo. "The dog somehow got out of the crate and is now running around the airfield," Andrew Gobeil, a spokesperson for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, told ABC News in an interview Monday. "We have about 4,600 acres of field out there, from the airfield and from the woods area. So we're looking throughout the entire airport."
Gale's owners described the dog as "friendly" and "loving," but said she is likely scared and skittish in an unknown area.
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