by Michelle Stein posted in Parenting

Any parent who has ever lost their child's favorite stuffed animal -- even for a day -- will appreciate the lengths one mom has gone in trying to reunite a stuffed puppy with his rightful owner.
Katie Hoeppner, a mom of two from Iowa, recently happened upon the forgotten puppy in a rest area bathroom, located on Iowa Interstate 80 Eastbound. But she couldn't just leave the poor little buddy there all by himself. Nope. She took to Facebook in hopes of finding the lovey's lost child.
"I don't know his name, so I named him George," Hoeppner wrote on her now-viral post. "'George' was my co-pilot home, wore his seat belt without a fuss, picked the music on the radio, and ran some errands with my family. I'm adding pictures to show George's endeavors and captions to go along with it. Please help me get 'George' back to his family!!!" Can you believe Hoeppner's post has been shared more than 42,000 times on Facebook alone since Sept. 30" If you take a look at the adorable photos of George's adventures, it isn't hard to see why.
"GASP!!! There he sat, sad and lonely," the caption in the photo of George's discovery reads.

"George helped me drive for a little bit (For real, I was still parked in the rest stop lot when I took this. I wasn't actually driving)"

"George knows that seat belts save lives."

"I gave George control of the music we listened to. He likes Kenny Chesney, Shin...