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After 5 years, Georgia woman reunited with dog in Harvard

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Shakira, a 6-year-old female Siberian husky, was reunited with her owner, Heather Jackson of Chatsworth, Ga., on Saturday after being missing for nearly five years. Jackson drove from Georgia with her brother to take Shakira home.

courtesy of the McHenry County Department of Healt

Heather Jackson of Chatsworth, Ga., and her brother, Matthew Asbury, embrace Shakira, a 6-year-old female Siberian husky who had been missing for nearly five years.

courtesy of the McHenry County Department of Healt

Now Shakira, a 6-year-old female Siberian husky who was missing for nearly five years, will be an inside dog, her owner says.

courtesy of the McHenry County Department of Healt

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Being reunited with her Siberian husky in McHenry County after five years was a joy unlike few she's ever experienced, a Georgia woman said Saturday. But Heather Jackson, of Chatsworth, Ga., said the real shocker wasn't the reunion itself, as moving and tear-filled as it was, but that it took so long. Her 6-year-old dog, Shakira, had been implanted with a microchip.