A healthcare executive says he saw an eagle snatch his sister's little white dog.

Felipe Rodriguez says he was visiting his sister in Pennsylvania when the eagle took the 8lb Bichon Frise from her yard and disappeared over the trees.

A biologist says eagles are capable of taking a small dog or cat, though it is rare. Zoey the Bichon lived to tell the tale as a motorist found her some four miles away.

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