Pa. Family To Return Dog To Katrina Victim

A Doylestown family that adopted a dog found in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is returning him to the New Orleans family that lost him. Lynne Welsh took in the now two-year-old dog from a suburban Philadelphia shelter last November. It had belonged to Sheila Combs, who lost virtually everything she owned in the hurricane. Combs had wanted her 10-year-old son's chow-Finnish spitz mix, named Rocket, returned home. Welsh initially said she would battle in court to keep the dog she renamed Rusty, but changed her mind after speaking to an assistant of Cesar Millan of the cable television show "Dog Whisperer." Welsh says that what the Dog Whisperer said is that unless the animal is beaten or abused, it's better to send it back.