UPDATE: Guide Dog Found

UPDATE 3:00 p.m. -- Cristina Curry with the Guide Dog Foundation tells News 3 Ronin was located Wednesday afternoon. He returned to the hotel where he was staying.

PREVIOUS INFORMATION:
SAVANNAH – Ronin, a 14-week-old black Labrador Retriever, is missing in Savannah, Georgia.

Ronin is a guide dog in training who was lost near Montgomery Street and Interstate 16 on Tuesday, April 21 at 2 a.m. after his caretaker suffered non-life threatening injuries in a traffic accident.

The puppy was wearing a collar with identification tags, and has the number 6211 tattooed on his left ear.

If you have any information regarding Ronin, please contact Deana Izzo, the Guide Dog Foundation’s field representative at 706-372-6197 or the Foundation’s Puppy Department in New York at 866-282-8046.

Ronin is part of the Vision project, a collaborative effort between the Guide Dog Foundation, the Georgia Department of Corrections, and Middle Georgia Technical College, where inmates learn to be veterinarian technicians or assistants while raising puppies. To expose the pups to experiences outside prison, special weekend volunteers pick the dogs up Friday afternoon and return them Monday morning.

At about 14-16 months old, the dogs return to the Guide Dog Foundation’s Smithtown, New York campus to begin their training as guide or assistance dogs for blind, visually impaired, or other disabled individuals.

Since 1946, the Guide Dog Foundation has been improving the quality of life for people who are blind, visually impaired, or who have other disabilities and who desire the enhanced mobility, independence, and companionship a guide or service dog provides.

The search is on tonight for a dog that's trained to make a difference in a challenging life.

A guide dog in training is somewhere, probably lost in Savannah.

It all started overnight with an accident downtown. A woman was taken to the hospital, with non-life threatening injuries, Tuesday morning after being hit by a box truck while trying to cross the street. See: Accident sends pedestrian to hospital

We're just learning she had a guide dog with her that must have taken off when the accident happened.

The missing dog is Ronin. He is a 14 week old guide dog in training.

He's a black lab golden retriever cross and has the number 6211 tattooed in his ear.

Anyone that has seen Ronin is asked to call the Guide Dog Foundation at 866-282-8046

Witnesses did see Ronin running from the scene. Again that accident was near Montgomery Street and Interstate 16.