Update... first post!!! sitting here very sad..... my doggy is gone !!

[C.Ann]

I'll be praying that Dash comes home safely - as well as the golden retriever..

It certainly does sound suspicious that 2 dogs disappeared in 2 days.. Maybe a call to the local news network would be helpful?

Best of luck..

 

[Ember]

Dash has been in my thoughts all day, I just didn't post earlier. I'm so sorry you have to go through this. You'll both continue to be in my thoughts and I truly hope things work out.

 

[chloelovesdisney]

Just checking in, still praying for sweet Dash.

 

[pyrxtc]

No Dash... we really don't think he ran off on his own. If he was anywhere close, he would be home. He was one spoiled dog !

 

[agnes!]

I would make a visit to every single vet within 5 miles of your house...*really*. Take a flyer, tell them what happened and leave a flyer there.

Have your kids ask all their friends in the neighborhood.

Go to all school bus-stops within one mile of your house when the kids are going to school and also when they are coming home. Explain to any adults what happened with your dog. Hand adults & kids a flyer.

If your kids ride the bus, have them give some flyers to their driver, ask the driver to hand them around to other school-bus drivers at your kids' school.

Take a flyer in to the school office, ask to leave it there.

Report the missing dog to your animal control/police, I hate to say it but there could be a public safety issue here (possible wild animal/predator, people stealing pets, etc.)



My story about a missing dog is from my childhood. Our dog "Tawn" disappeared one day, we had no idea what happened. He was kind of a free spirit and was the jumping-est dog you ever saw, could jump straight up (kind of boing-boing y'know?) and could clear a five-foot fence if he wanted to. We had some land on the edge of town, horses, etc and for an animal to go missing wasn't unheard of. (We also seemed to take in lots of dogs that people just dumped out near us.)

So, anyway, about a year later, my mom gets a phone call. This lady said "we have your dog", my mom said "Oh, we haven't lost a dog in over a year, it can't be ours" and this lady said "well, he still has his county tags on and I called the Courthouse and it's your dog".

And my mom said ok I guess he's our dog and we'll come pick him up...


I was sick with one of the childhood illnesses we used to get...measles? mumps? so I couldn't go with her, so my mom & my brother got in our station wagon (remember those?) and drove to this lady's house to see if it really was our dog.

They drove up to the house and...
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TAWN came running! He jumped up on the top of the car, he looked down into the front windshield, then he jumped into the car through the open window... and my mom and my brother brought Tawn home. He lived for at least 15 more years, even moved with us and fathered a litter (sorry, it was a different time) of puppies in the spring before he finally passed away in the fall of his last year.



Now, you have to understand a few things here.

Tawn was in another state.
On the other side of a *river*.
And he hated to swim.
And the lady's house was at least 20 miles away from us.
He never would have gone or gotten that far of his own free-will.

My mom (who has always had kind of an ESP thing going) had a suspicion that a neighbor who HATED the dog had transported him north and dumped him somewhere up there, thinking he'd NEVER come back or that he'd just *die*. Now just imagine Tawn, trying and trying and trying to come back home and finally getting to that river and not being able to make it across...

And y'know what? I just thought of something... I bet that neighbor was surprised when Tawn was finally home a year later!

I hope your family gets its own happy ending with your pup.
agnes!

 

[pyrxtc]

I only have one vet within 5 miles and have notified, with pictures, all vets within 30 miles of me. Everyone throughout the town knows about him. There are flyers everywhere, even 4 towns away there are flyers I put up. Everyone that can be notified has been and I carry flyers with me everywhere to pass to anyone who might see him. I know in my heart an animal took him but I will be forever looking. He has his ID tags on for my and my mothers house with at least 4 numbers to call between them. Maybe someday .....

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I know in my heart an animal took him but I will be forever looking.

I know you said you looked in the woods, but did you really scour around the entire area going quite a ways in and around looking for any signs of, er, how do I say this... remains? Or even Dash's collar? My DH said there would also be prints if it was an animal (which he thinks it was, having snapped that run like that as well as the swiftness of the disappearance).

We're not in the woods, really, yet we have a ton of coyotes around us. The Audobon Society studies their droppings to see what they've been eating and they know it's in part, pets. Last summer my friend let her cat out and heard a loud sound (can't think of what that's called in cats). She went out just in time to see a coyote standing there with her cat in his mouth, then he ran off. Other cats were missing from their neighborhood also and the coyote was hanging around every evening. Another friend in that same area went out in his fenced yard one morning to find signs of a struggle - though his dog was safe inside, thankfully. His stockade fence was broken and there was hair and blood caught on the top of it. He's not exactly sure what happened but thinks it was probably a coyote chasing a deer and somehow they wound up in his yard and then jumped back out. It's nuts.

I'm wondering if the Audobon, or another wildlife organization like it near you, might be able to provide some information. Also, does your town or area have a website that has message boards? There might be information there if others have been having the same problem.

 

[pyrxtc]

yes, we scoured, more than my family has. Neighbors have been going in randomly to looks for any signs. It's hard tho cuz there are more woods than not woods and we live on the side of a mountain so he can climb high. No prints or scat. Ground was too dry and cold to hold any prints and no sign of any scat anywhere.

 

[chisnpeke]

Just wanted to let you know I am thinking of you and your sweet pup. He'll always be with you in your heart. My heart is breaking into pieces for you.

 

[kirbydog48]

The not knowing makes it so difficult. So sorry.

 

[pyrxtc]

Still no signs, we'll walk the woods again tomorrow to look for any signs but people have been in there ever day and the town is plastered with flyers. Still miss him crazy and watch for him whenever we go anywhere. The police have reported that there have been 3 unconfirmed sightings and two dogs missing suspiciously. Sow weird being a 1 dog family.

 

[tevagirl]

Don't give up hope.

 

[pyrxtc]

He is home !! covered in ticks and lost about 10 pounds but he is home after 19 days missing !

 

[Pea-n-Me]

OMG!! Hooray!!

What do you think happened??? (If only dogs could talk!) How'd you find him???

 

[StacyMarie]

OMG, I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!!!!!! I remember reading your original post and feeling so sad and hoping that he came home to you! Thank goodness he found his way home!

 

[Mommy2three]

been following this thread and so glad to see he came home and is safe! Now go give him that big T-BONE steak u know hes been dreaming of since hes been gone

 

[luvsmickeymouse]

Oh I am so glad he is home, I have been following this. Poor thing, I wish they could talk, they would have so much to say.

 

[npmommie]

I am SO happy to read this, I have been following this thread, and I was soooooo sad reading how your doggy was lost.
So happy to hear he found his way home

 

[design_mom]

YAY!!!!! Welcome home, Dash!

 

[kinntj]

He is home !! covered in ticks and lost about 10 pounds but he is home after 19 days missing !

I'm so happy to hear that he's back home! He must be so happy to be back.