Owners “never lost hope” of finding their missing dog — and their faith was rewarded with an emotional reunion 10 years later.

Photos show Cleo getting showered with love as she finally reconnected with her family. The heartwarming moment came after a Florida animal shelter said the 14-year-old cockapoo — a cocker spaniel and poodle mix — arrived as a stray.

“We were hoping for a happy ending and for her to be reunited with her owners but we did not foresee the joy that her story brought,” the Humane Society of Tampa Bay wrote March 5 in a Facebook post.

The shelter facilitated the long-awaited reunion after it checked Cleo for a microchip, a device that stores owners’ contact information. The humane society said it called the family and discovered the dog ran away a decade ago.

The news that a good Samaritan found the dog left the family, which had since moved from the Tampa area to Miami, in disbelief. The shelter was stunned, too.

“We were surprised just because that is such a crazy amount of time,” Regan Blessinger, marketing and content manager, told McClatchy News in a phone interview. “We’ve had it where there’s been a couple of years but 10 years is magnificent.”

So, what was Cleo doing all that time? While the shelter said it can’t know for sure, the dog wasn’t found in rough shape. The facility believes she may have spent time with another family, though no one else claimed her from the shelter.

Meanwhile, the original owners kept updating their microchip and “never lost hope” they would find Cleo, known to be “sweet” and “calm” with a sense of curiosity. The family drove to the shelter March 2 to reclaim their pup.

“We couldn’t be happier for them,” the shelter wrote in its post, which some Facebook users said left them crying tears of joy. “This shows the power and importance of the microchip and never losing hope.”

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