Gone with the wind: Chihuahua blown away

Report: Six-pound puppy found a mile away from where gust sent her flying

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April 28: A Detroit couple was stunned when high winds blew their beloved chihuahua up, up and away. WDIV's Lauren Podell reports a psychic later helped locate the windblown pup alive almost a mile away.

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updated 1:12 p.m. ET April 28, 2009

WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A six-pound Chihuahua has been reunited with her owners after a 70-mph gust of wind picked the puppy up and tossed her out of sight.

Dorothy and Lavern Utley credit a pet psychic for guiding them on Monday to a wooded area nearly a mile from where 8-month-old Tinker Bell had been last seen. The brown long-haired dog was dirty and hungry but otherwise OK.

The Utleys, of Rochester, had set up an outdoor display Saturday at a flea market in Waterford Township, 25 miles northwest of Detroit.

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Tinker Bell was standing on their platform trailer when she was swept away.

Dorothy Utley tells The Detroit News that her cherished pet "just went wild" upon seeing her.

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