BANGOR – A Bucksport man and his two dogs have been reunited thanks to a photograph and an anonymous phone call.

The Bangor Police Department received a call on Tuesday night about two dogs at a farm on Pushaw road, according to Sgt. Larry Weber. The caller said the dogs looked like the two mixed-breed service dogs featured in an article and a picture in that day’s Bangor Daily News.

David Warrington, 40, of Bucksport had been missing his two 110-pound mixed-breed dogs, Lucky and Flash, for six days after they ran off at a barbecue in Bangor.

Bangor Police Officer Chris Desmond found the dogs at the residence of Craig Hurd, who said someone had dropped the dogs off at his house over the weekend, Weber said Wednesday.

Later that evening, Warrington got the phone call he had been waiting for.

“I was leery at first,” said Warrington, who didn’t want to get his hopes up. “Of course, when I saw them, I was very happy to have them back.”

Flash and Lucky looked as though they had been on quite an adventure, Warrington said, noting their tags and collars either were gone or disheveled beyond recognition. They looked well-fed and healthy though, he said.

“There’s a lot of people that helped make this happen,” the owner said Wednesday, expressing his thanks to the Bangor Daily News, the Bangor Police Department and whoever recognized the dogs from their photographs in the newspaper.

While walking out of the police station, several people driving by called out of their cars, “Are those the dogs? Were they found?” Warrington said.

Despite their celebrity status, Flash and Lucky knew that running away was wrong, Warrington said.

“Their heads were down in the car, they knew,” he said with a laugh, adding that his dogs are very smart.

Both Flash and Lucky work at the Bangor Area Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and have worked at other hospitals visiting sick children.

Warrington hopes to get the dogs back into their work as soon as possible – after they have had a good shampooing and acquired some new collars and tags.

“We’re going to get them right back where they were,” he said.