I'm gonna try and make this quick. Some events happened over the past few days that caused me to be pretty quiet over here and wasn't able to post my next update. I think(hope) you will all understand when you hear what has happened.
Last Wednesday, my 2 dogs ran off. No, we don't have a fence. No, they've NEVER EVER ran off before. It's VERY out of character for them. I let them out to do their business and the next thing you know, they were gone. We have woodsy areas around us and I think they may have seen a possum or a skunk. I yelled for them for several minutes and when they didn't return I got pretty worried. Mike was at work...so I searched frantically around the block on foot for a little while. I had no luck on foot, and it was pretty dark out (10:30 at this point) so I walked back home and went out in my car a little further than where I had walked. I kept yelling for them, kept an eye out around other neighborhood dogs, and still...nothing.
I called Mike at work and he came home a little early. We went out again on foot and in the car, on foot again, and in the car again. We searched for about 2 hours. We also got pulled over by a cop saying we were "suspicious" because we were driving around with the hazards on at that time. Okay we were ALSO shining a bright spotlight out the window and hollering, "Coal! Merlin!" And yet, he thought we could be the people who robbed some nearby apartments?? Yeah! Hello...if we robbed someone we certainly would not be in the area and DEFINITELY wouldn't want to draw MORE attention to ourselves. Ugh. Mike sassed him because he was offended, and I tend to just let things like that slide. He let us go about our business and we continued to search a little bit longer til we called it a night. We talked to one person on the street behind us, since he was outside his house. He hadn't seen them.
Fast forward to Thursday during the day. I went to work thinking I'd just keep my mind off of the dogs for a little while. We were supposed to leave that night for Florida and I wasn't thinking that was a good idea now that our babies were gone. We had been looking forward to that trip for months. (Actually we've known about it for almost a year now)
I left work around noon so we could go to the ASPCA, the paper, etc. I had been making calls all morning. We took care of all that mess, and no one had seen either of them. The woman at the paper was SO wonderful in that she looked in her system for all the phone calls from that morning to see if anyone had called in any missing dogs matching the descriptions. She went above and beyond her job duty. No luck there. We drove around our area again in daylight, and walked again too. No luck, AGAIN.
We went home, and not 20 minutes later....Merlin came strolling on home!! We were SO excited but then excitement turned to worry again when Coal didn't follow him in. He would NEVER leave his brother. We took Merlin out on his leash in hopes that he'd lead us to Coal. That proved unsuccessful. To make the rest of the long story a bit shorter, Coal has still not been found.
We have great friends who convinced us to go ahead on our trip to Santa Rosa Beach b/c they'd take care of things for us, and my cousin Christina watched Merlin for us. She and some other friends of ours hung up the flyers we made, and they were constantly searching our house and nearby over the weekend. It's been 6 days now, and our baby is still not home. We think someone has him. Merlin did not gobble up his food or lap his water like we would expect, when he came home. The only dirt on him was a little bit on his paws, and he doesn't have any scratches so I don't think he got into it with another dog/animal. I just wish he could talk so he could tell us where he was, and where Coal is! I don't think he'd have left Coal willingly. We are very worried that our baby got hurt and did not make it. I'm thankful that God brought Merlin back to us, but I feel terrible that our other little one is out there all alone! Or not out there at all
My sister suggested going to a psychic. I considered it for a moment even though I am usually against that type of stuff. I don't even check my horoscope. Dad said there's a woman who is a Pet Psychic (finds lost pets) and I wish I could afford something like that. If anyone has any ideas for us, I'd gladly accept them.
I hope y'all understand now why I have been absent. It's just been hard dealing with all of this and I didn't want to say anything yet---guess I was just hoping I wouldn't have to give you bad news at all (as in Coal would've come home by now)
Now for a little piece of good news (though it in no way cancels out the bad news) We finally picked this up from Walmart's site-to-store:
Now I'll be able to put ALL of our pics in one place and hopefully will be able to download them onto Photobucket MUCH more quickly.
I will try to get a mini TR of my SRB trip by this weekend. We had a good time, and it really helped to keep our mind off of all the bad stuff. It was best that we went and weren't sitting around the house moping all weekend. Thankfully we had good friends who were watching out for Coal for us. I hope that no one places judgement on us for leaving, but you may have done the same thing if you were in the same situation. It was hard leaving, but it was better than sitting at home crying. I did make a ton of calls while I was there, too. Of course I could not pretend like it was not happening.
But I do have some good pictures to share. I think y'all will enjoy them.
I think I said this was going to be "quick" Well sue me, I lied.
I figured my DIS friends deserve the whole story and that's how it ended up coming out.
I'm going to sleep, but tomorrow is another day.
Last Wednesday, my 2 dogs ran off. No, we don't have a fence. No, they've NEVER EVER ran off before. It's VERY out of character for them. I let them out to do their business and the next thing you know, they were gone. We have woodsy areas around us and I think they may have seen a possum or a skunk. I yelled for them for several minutes and when they didn't return I got pretty worried. Mike was at work...so I searched frantically around the block on foot for a little while. I had no luck on foot, and it was pretty dark out (10:30 at this point) so I walked back home and went out in my car a little further than where I had walked. I kept yelling for them, kept an eye out around other neighborhood dogs, and still...nothing.
I called Mike at work and he came home a little early. We went out again on foot and in the car, on foot again, and in the car again. We searched for about 2 hours. We also got pulled over by a cop saying we were "suspicious" because we were driving around with the hazards on at that time. Okay we were ALSO shining a bright spotlight out the window and hollering, "Coal! Merlin!" And yet, he thought we could be the people who robbed some nearby apartments?? Yeah! Hello...if we robbed someone we certainly would not be in the area and DEFINITELY wouldn't want to draw MORE attention to ourselves. Ugh. Mike sassed him because he was offended, and I tend to just let things like that slide. He let us go about our business and we continued to search a little bit longer til we called it a night. We talked to one person on the street behind us, since he was outside his house. He hadn't seen them.
Fast forward to Thursday during the day. I went to work thinking I'd just keep my mind off of the dogs for a little while. We were supposed to leave that night for Florida and I wasn't thinking that was a good idea now that our babies were gone. We had been looking forward to that trip for months. (Actually we've known about it for almost a year now)
I left work around noon so we could go to the ASPCA, the paper, etc. I had been making calls all morning. We took care of all that mess, and no one had seen either of them. The woman at the paper was SO wonderful in that she looked in her system for all the phone calls from that morning to see if anyone had called in any missing dogs matching the descriptions. She went above and beyond her job duty. No luck there. We drove around our area again in daylight, and walked again too. No luck, AGAIN.
We went home, and not 20 minutes later....Merlin came strolling on home!! We were SO excited but then excitement turned to worry again when Coal didn't follow him in. He would NEVER leave his brother. We took Merlin out on his leash in hopes that he'd lead us to Coal. That proved unsuccessful. To make the rest of the long story a bit shorter, Coal has still not been found.
We have great friends who convinced us to go ahead on our trip to Santa Rosa Beach b/c they'd take care of things for us, and my cousin Christina watched Merlin for us. She and some other friends of ours hung up the flyers we made, and they were constantly searching our house and nearby over the weekend. It's been 6 days now, and our baby is still not home. We think someone has him. Merlin did not gobble up his food or lap his water like we would expect, when he came home. The only dirt on him was a little bit on his paws, and he doesn't have any scratches so I don't think he got into it with another dog/animal. I just wish he could talk so he could tell us where he was, and where Coal is! I don't think he'd have left Coal willingly. We are very worried that our baby got hurt and did not make it. I'm thankful that God brought Merlin back to us, but I feel terrible that our other little one is out there all alone! Or not out there at all
My sister suggested going to a psychic. I considered it for a moment even though I am usually against that type of stuff. I don't even check my horoscope. Dad said there's a woman who is a Pet Psychic (finds lost pets) and I wish I could afford something like that. If anyone has any ideas for us, I'd gladly accept them.
I hope y'all understand now why I have been absent. It's just been hard dealing with all of this and I didn't want to say anything yet---guess I was just hoping I wouldn't have to give you bad news at all (as in Coal would've come home by now)
Now for a little piece of good news (though it in no way cancels out the bad news) We finally picked this up from Walmart's site-to-store:
Now I'll be able to put ALL of our pics in one place and hopefully will be able to download them onto Photobucket MUCH more quickly.
I will try to get a mini TR of my SRB trip by this weekend. We had a good time, and it really helped to keep our mind off of all the bad stuff. It was best that we went and weren't sitting around the house moping all weekend. Thankfully we had good friends who were watching out for Coal for us. I hope that no one places judgement on us for leaving, but you may have done the same thing if you were in the same situation. It was hard leaving, but it was better than sitting at home crying. I did make a ton of calls while I was there, too. Of course I could not pretend like it was not happening.
But I do have some good pictures to share. I think y'all will enjoy them.
I think I said this was going to be "quick" Well sue me, I lied.
I figured my DIS friends deserve the whole story and that's how it ended up coming out. I'm going to sleep, but tomorrow is another day.
a new hard drive!! Does this mean day 2 will be done soon?
I was planning on getting new ones for both dogs in FL over the weekend---shame on me for not making that more of a priority! If he had it on, we wouldn't be in this predicament! 
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I hope Coal comes home safe and sound! hugs!!!
Darren's going to tell the guy that has the route by your house to watch for him too. I really hope someone can find him!!
I enjoyed watching whatever was on TV at the time (I remember seeing a lot about the OJ robbery) and woke Mike up when I was about ready. 
, we made it to the MK bus stop about an hour and 15 minutes before our ADR. There was a long line because the MK extra magic hours were that night. The bus pulled up only minutes later, and we managed to get on, standing room only. But we didnt care because we were going to eat our first ever meal at the California Grill!
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