Her dog named Blue was lost in New York — until actress Hilary Swank found him

For an hour on Monday, June 6, a New York woman was searching everywhere for her dog, until she found him in the unlikely hands of actress Hilary Swank.

The woman, identified by the Albany Times Union as Chelsea Blackwell, said on Facebook she had been driving around Albany for an hour looking for her small brown dog named Blue.

When she asked a group of people if anyone had seen the dachshund, one man said a woman had picked him up.

“I said ‘Who?’” Blackwell wrote on Facebook. “He replied, ‘A celebrity.’”

That celebrity was the “Million Dollar Baby” star Swank, who later appeared in a vehicle with Blue in her lap, Blackwell told the Times Union.

“I was like, ‘No way,’” Blackwell told the publication. “As soon as she got out of the car, I kissed Blue and said, ‘Thank you so much.’”

Swank is known to be a lover of dogs and told People in 2021 rescuing dogs has changed her life.

She also founded the Hillaroo Foundation, which pairs abandoned rescue animals with youth who “have been given up on.”

This story was originally published June 8, 2022 at 12:34 PM with the headline "Her dog named Blue was lost in New York — until actress Hilary Swank found him."