Dog reunited with family after swimming across Hudson River to New Jersey
NEW YORK -- A dog who went for a wild swim across the Hudson is now back home with his family in Manhattan.
Ellen Wolpin told Inside Edition she got Bear just last week as a service dog for her son, who suffers seizures, but while on a walk near the Hudson on the Upper West Side on Saturday, Bear got spooked and ran off. Someone tried to catch him, but he was too fast.
"Somebody tried to catch him, and he panicked and swerved around them, and then Bear decided to jump into the Hudson and swim to New Jersey," Wolpin said.
She feared Bear was dead, but two days later, Bear was found near a pier in Edgewater, New Jersey.
He had a microchip and was reunited with his family.
You can see the entire story on Inside Edition at 7 p.m. Wednesday on CBS2.
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