Manitoba family reunited with missing blind pug thanks to community support [Video]

A blind pug has been safely returned to its home in Manitoba after going missing for 16 days.

The 9-year-old dog, named Nugget, somehow got out of its Kleefeld residence this past Easter Sunday.

Described as a “velcro dog,” Nugget’s family was shocked to discover their beloved girl wasn’t home.

“We just didn’t realize that she wasn’t there. We thought she was in the house,” said Nugget’s mother Marnie Lee Mackintosh. “You’re just doing your stuff, right, because the dogs are pretty quiet. So it wasn’t until later that night I was saying like ‘where’s Nugget?’ and then all Hell broke loose and the search was on for her.”

The disappearance of the pug seemed out of character for the pet.

“If she wanders far from us or anything she usually cries for us, and barks her head off, so we’re just so completely flabbergasted why we can’t hear her …