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Sometimes it's a storybook ending. Sometimes just an ending.
I think it is important for people
to understand that search dogs are just one tool in a full search
effort. Search dogs are not magic. I often find the expectation is that the search dog will
come out and in minutes, magically pick up the track, find the missing pet,
and bring it home.
Sometimes all we can offer is closure. In one case, a missing cat had been hit by a car, and was found
deceased under a shed. Although it was very sad, the cat’s
guardian positively learned what had happened and was able to recover the
remains of the pet.
On another more fortunate search we were lucky, and
found the missing cat under a shed less than a day after she knocked the
screen out of a window and had disappeared. On another occasion, although we
didn’t find the missing cat we were after, I suspect we flushed it out of
hiding. He appeared on his front porch the next morning.
On other
occasions, we were able to put searchers into a neighborhood where their
flyers and door to door visits produced sightings and ultimately contributed
to locating their pets.
Here are some of our search stories, sent
in by the pet owners we helped:
Tinker's Story:
The Tracker Process in Action
Goober's Story: "Find the
Kitty!"
Keeper's Story: Escape at
the Airport
Baxter's Story: The
Skeptic
Sassy's Story: Keeping Hope
Alive
Eddie's Story: Just in
Time (tissue alert!)
Bobo's Story: One Clever Dog |
