After a late night at a car race, Carole and Verne King returned to their dog-friendly hotel in Kalispell, but their dog named Katie 1. At the front desk, an attendant(服务员) said she had seen an anxious dog rush out the door hours before.
The Kings were shocked at the news and decided to set out to find it immediately. "Every night going to bed after an exhausting day, we were extremely 2," said Mr. King. "Is she warm? Did she get to eat today?"
Several days later, the Kings spent the night searching nearby neighborhoods, but there was no 3 of the dog. The front-desk attendant asked them to send some photos, and together they 4 making and distributing fliers(传单) around the area.
Hundreds of them were posted on light poles and mailboxes, and handed out by the couple and even strangers 5 them in walking the neighborhoods 6 Katie.
Once, while they were talking to a landowner at a farm, a woman came up to them and said she had seen their dog cross the road and 7 a corn field. The Kings started running, calling for Katie.
It turned out to be a 8 dog.
Missing their house and other animals, the disappointed couple was planning to return home, 9 some of their new friends in Kalispell 10 them to hang on. More than a dozen others spent hours in 11 them to search.
The couple said that they couldn't 12 almost all village was up there and that they received much 13 from people－from a stranger to a stranger.
On the morning of September 15, the couple were walking through that corn field with many villagers joining them. 14 a woman pointed to a dog under a nearby tree. It was her! They all began calling Katie's name, but the dog was cautious. Therefore, others in the group went silent as Mrs. King called out to the dog. Katie was so 15 that she came running and jumped into Mrs. King's arms immediately.
