Positively San Diego: Family reunites with dog missing for over a month and last updated 2021-03-03 21:27:25-05 VALLEY CENTER, Calif. (KGTV) - A San Marcos family is reunited with their dog after it was missing for over a month in Valley Center. Penny is a one-and-a-half-year-old Vizla. Her parents are both essential workers. Mandy Colafrancesco is an ER nurse and Mike Colafrancesco is a fire captain. The family decided to take a vacation and while on their trip they got a call about Penny. Penny was lost, she had escaped from the boarding facility where she was staying while the family was gone. Desperate, the family called Babs Fry, a local woman who's helped hundreds of local families reunite with their pets.