A 10-year-old boxer was reunited with his owner on Saturday after disappearing from his family's backyard nine years ago.

Someone surrendered the dog, named Boozer, who was eight months old when he disappeared, to the Foothills Animal Shelter in Golden, Colo. After doing a quick scan of a chip, they found out that the dog belongs to Lloyd Goldston from Tennessee.

"I cried, especially when they sent the first picture of him," Goldston said, Denver TV station KDVR reported. "My daughter cried. My wife cried. All the kids were excited, and the immediate question was 'Are we gonna get him? Are we gonna get him?'"

Of course, Goldston and his family decided to get Boozer back. So they drove 2,500 miles in 18 hours to reunite with the dog, which Goldston describes as a "joyful if a little bittersweet reunion."

"After all this time to see him again; he was just a puppy and now he's this old guy, both of us have gray hair now," he said. "It's like getting a family member back. It's that level of emotion."

"We are on Cloud 9! Boozer, a 10-year-old Boxer, was reunited with his original family, thanks to a microchip. Even after 9 years, he definitely remembered them," the shelter said on a Facebook post.