RELATED: 21 heartwarming, feel-good things that happened in 2021"She told me, ‘Our dog's gone’ and that he had escaped the front porch," Slack, a 29-year UPS worker told FOX Business. "I just told her, ‘We’ll find him.’"Credit: Paula Odom Slack said Odom had explained to him that her 7-year-old dog, Pete, was a runner and she was nervous he’d be lost in the 500-plus acres of the Cherokee National Forest which surrounds Odom’s area. "In that forest there are coyotes, there are bears...my fear was that Pete is not mountain-wise and wouldn’t know what to do in a situation like that and the chance we'd see him again was slim to none," Odom told FOX Business.Odom said her husband, Perry, went out searching for Pete but was unsuccessful.