Boy the system can kick into action sometimes - which is absolutely lovely! Reassuring to know that people are still looking out for us (and Sky!) after all this time but yet again, it wasn't Sky.
This is what happened:
Phone call 23.15 this evening. Not a problem as I'd only just got in from work. I answer the phone thinking oh no, that's my sleep disappearing down the plughole, phone calls at this time generally meaning I have to go back in.
The lovely Kate from doglost.co.uk (the best lost dog website by far) said there had been 3 or 4 postings about a dog found today in Croydon which was a black labrador with a 'skin complaint' on its back. The dog was in the lady's garden and she couldn't get a dog warden to come out.
Anyway, I rang her, and it turns out she tried a vet instead and the dog was fortunately microchipped and has been successfully reunited with its owners.
Last week saw 2 Spinone's go missing (same breed as the lovely Jacob who went missing soon after Sky and is still at large). One stolen by a travelling community and the other missing in woods, who ran to the owner's car 5 days later! The stolen dog was reunited following the offer of a reward.
A large reward stands for both Sky and Jacob.
Kate says the police are getting more proactive about travellers these days and many stolen dogs have recently been reunited with their owners, which is nice.
We are still very happy tonight - when a dog matching Sky's description appears, there are lots of lovely people all over the UK jumping into action. Thank you Doglost.co.uk
Saturday 7 August 2010
Tuesday 3 August 2010
Activity to report, but still no success.
Many thanks to the kind person (anonymous) who sent us the link to the black lab with what looked like a patch of fur missing on the animalsearch website: http://www.animalsearchuk.co.uk/view_found_pet.php?id=11109
This dog looked so like Sky from the face and the hair loss on the back. By far the best match we have seen. However the white patch on the chest was not right. For a while we dared to hope that a white patch might just develop with time (OK, silly, irrational etc, but hope can give a powerful distortion of reality!). Unfortunately when we contacted the nice lady who had taken him in it clear that it was definitely not Sky.
Val sent us a lovely story of a lost lab reunited after many years:
Made us happy and sad at the same time. Still, maybe next time it will be us.
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