Oregon family finds missing dog after disappearance from San Rafael Airbnb

The Brief

• The dog, who had been missing for a month, was located in a San Rafael parking lot.

• Labradoodle Teddy disappeared from a San Rafael Airbnb in late March while his owners were at dinner.

• The family was visiting the area from their home in Eugene, Oregon.

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – An Oregon family’s dog has been found nearly a month after escaping from a vacation rental in San Rafael.

Rebekah Whittaker of Eugene, Ore. said on Monday morning she received a phone call from a San Rafael resident who had found her labradoodle, Teddy, in a shopping center parking lot. Whittaker said she planned to make the eight-hour drive the same day, and retrieve her dog by Monday night.

Disappearing act

The backstory

Whittaker and her family were vacationing at a rental home in San Rafael in late March when Teddy went missing. The family returned from dinner on March 28 and realized a door they hadn’t noticed was left open, as was a gate, and that Teddy was gone.

The dog’s rescuer reportedly found him the…