La Gorda escaped from her family's backyard in Mexico and was missing for a month before she was spotted celebrating Mexico's World Cup victory on Facebook Live.
Maggie Penman and Maia Nehme
The night Mexico won a World Cup match against the Czech Republic, Ale García was at home. Her brother called, but he was so excited it was hard to understand him. He seemed to be saying he had seen her dog in a jubilant crowd of Mexico soccer fans, but that wasn’t possible, she thought.
García, 24, had been searching for her runaway dog La Gorda for a month and was heartbroken and worried about the pup.
“I said, ‘Oh, I don’t believe you, I can’t believe it,’” García told The Washington Post. “Because it was too far from where I live to the stadium, so I said to myself, ‘How can a little dog get there?’”
