Gizmo the missing dog reunited with Las Vegas family after nearly a decade

Judith Monarrez says she never stopped looking for her chihuahua after he escaped from the backyard in 2015

Judith Monarrez crumpled onto her kitchen floor and wept when the news arrived in an email: Gizmo, her pet dog missing for nine years, had been found alive.

Monarrez was 28 and living with her parents in 2015 when Gizmo, then two years old, slipped past a faulty gate in the backyard of their home in Las Vegas.