WHEAT RIDGE, Colo., July 3 (UPI) — A Colorado family’s stolen SUV may still be missing, but they have their beloved golden retriever back.

Jim Seeton of Windsor told the Rocky Mountain News that he got a call from police on Monday.

“They said, ‘I think we got him.’ I asked ‘Is he overweight?’ Yep, that’s our dog,” he said.

The dog, 6-year-old Ute, went missing on Saturday. Seeton and his two sons were on their way to Buena Vista for a vacation when they stopped at a gas station in Wheat Ridge, just west of Denver.

Seeton left his Lexus running with the key in the ignition while he went to look for his sons. Wheat Ridge police spotted the vehicle about an hour later but were unable to halt it.

Ute, the retriever, turned up in a park in nearby Arvada.

The dog ended up at the Wheat Ridge police department when one of the people who found him recognized him from a news photo about the vehicle theft and dog-napping.