Elderly Shih Tzu escaped owner’s yard — only to be found at a bar a mile from home

A Wisconsin woman was shocked to discover that her elderly Shih Tzu-terrier mix was still a paw-ty animal at heart — after the pooch sneaked out of the backyard and ended up in a local bar.

Jenny Hazard, from Milwaukee, was frantically looking for her 16-year-old pet last week, when she got an unexpected text saying, “if this is your dog it’s at Finks,” referring to a bar located a mile away from her house.

“I’m like, what?” Hazard told the station Fox 6.

Hazard said on Wednesday evening she was in her backyard with her three dogs, including Bear, when the pooch slipped unnoticed through a gate that was left slightly open.

“After about 15 or 20 minutes I was just in tears,” Hazard said. “Because he’s old, he’s got a heart condition.”

Hazard took to social media, asking people in the area to be on the lookout for the furry fugitive, who is also partially blind and walks with a limp.

“He can’t go far in snow. I’m like, where could he have gone?” Hazard said.

A short time later, Hazard received a text message revealing that at that very moment, Bear was raising the roof at a nearby bar.

“We get a text. They said: your dog is down at Finks,” Hazard said.

A friend of a friend then sent the relieved dog owner a photo showing the pint-sized boozehound having a tail-wagging good time at Finks Bar a mile away from home.

“They took good care of him, and I guess he was pretty popular,” Hazard said.

It was not immediately known how the senior pooch with a bad heart and mobility issues managed to make his way to the watering hole in the snow.

“Old man breaks free, goes to bar,” Hazard joked.

The owner later learned that her adventurous pet was hanging out at Finks with a group of bar-hopping women.

The drinking establishment’s owner said the patrons must have picked up Bear on the street and had him tag along. 

The carousing canine was later reunited with his owner.