Missing Dog Returning Home After 32km of wandering...Even the doorbell "Ding Dong."

Athena, a dog who returns home on Christmas Eve to ring the doorbell. / AP

A dog who had been missing for more than a week in the United States returned home on Christmas Eve and even rang the doorbell himself.

According to the Associated Press and other foreign media on the 28th, Brooke Comer's family in Green Cove Springs, Florida, lost their dog Athena on the 15th. Athena was a four-year-old German shepherd and husky mix dog.

At the time, Mr. Comer's family was out to go to church and received a call from a neighbor that Athena was outside the house. Mr. Comer ran straight home, but could not find Athena, only the dog necklace contained in a box.

The family struggled to find Athena, such as making and distributing missing flyers, to no avail.

"My heart was beating and fluttering as I went to where I was informed, but when I went there, my heart collapsed," Comer said. "Athena was the greatest grand champion of hide-and-seek ever."

A week after the disappearance period, something like the 'Miracle of Christmas' happened when I grew worried about what had happened to Athena.

At dawn on the 24th, Athena returned home on her own.

At around 2:30 a.m., Comer was surprised when he heard the doorbell and checked the front door video with a security app connected to his mobile phone.

Because I witnessed Athena ringing the doorbell as she jumped up. Athena ran into the house and licked her son's face, half asleep on the couch.

Considering the contact received by Comer over the past nine days, Athena appears to have traveled about 32km while leaving the house, the Associated Press reported.

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team