Doug welcomed her into our little family with open paws and Clover took on her role as emotional support animal to her little brother with great appreciation.ĭid it help? No. There was no barking or growling or tense moments. When we let them both out in the meet area, Doug and Clover looked at each other and then went to sniff different corners. Lauren agreed to drive all the way back to my home to pick up Doug so that we could introduce the two of them together. I don’t know what came over me, but I needed to adopt this dog. She was balding all over her body, with her fur coarse and practically un-pettable, she was chewing on rocks and rubbing her skin dry from pure anxiety. Sweet, innocent, calm, and had recently given birth to a litter of puppies. I wasn’t actually going to adopt one.īut then I met Clover. Maybe another dog would help?Ī month later I dragged my closest friend, Lauren, off to an animal shelter, promising myself and my family that I was only looking at a companion for Doug. He couldn’t be left alone without having a full-blown panic attack. Despite how much I loved him, I felt like a prisoner to Doug. But I couldn’t live the way I was living either. No, they were just going to take him away from the life he began to grow comfortable in. He just greeted these strangers, without any apprehension, trusting that the people I decided to let into the apartment weren’t going to harm him. His tail began to slightly uncurl and my heart broke as I realized how content and trusting he was. While they sat talking excitedly in my apartment, I watched Doug greet them calmly and then walk to his favorite spot on the couch and assume his position, taking a deep breath as he gazed out the window, watching squirrels climb up trees. After interviewing them and finding little fault, though… I couldn’t do it. I met and spoke with a couple of people and found a family that lived about 45 minutes away who were very excited to meet him. I posted on Facebook and sent out an email blast to my network requesting help in finding someone suitable to adopt my 1-year-old, tail-wagging best friend. Since it was founded by dog lover Graham Burton, it has helped find 2,750 missing pets across the UK.Four months ago I was about to make the most painful decision of my life.įor those who haven’t been following the story of Doug’s separation anxiety journey, let me rewind a little.įebruary of last year I decided to re-home Doug - my scruffy, blonde, sweet mutt. It has appealed for people to come forward in the Lancashire region to increase its capacity to locate lost dogs, the Lancashire Evening Post reports. However, in places like Warrington and the rest of north-west England, the charity feels it needs more volunteer searchers and drone pilots. It has over 62,000 members nationally who use drones in their searches. While the tale of Max had a happy ending as he is now back home, it can often be a tough task looking for missing pets, especially if there is nobody actively trying to reunite a lost animal with its owners.Įfforts to find lost dogs include the existence of the charity Drone SAR For Dogs. In this case, Max was chipped so his identity could be easily confirmed. The incident may act as a reminder of the need to register a dog microchip when it is implanted, to help detect and identify them. Max had escaped through a gate but after being found by the boys, they went from house-to-house to try to find the owners until they were eventually successful. One of the owners, giving her name as Beverley, declared that “the boys deserve a medal”, while another Culcheth resident to the paper that it was “lovely that they cared so much”. The two boys, known only as Riley and Thomas, were publicly thanked on social media by the daughter of the owners after Max was safely returned. However, there was a much happier outcome in Culcheth near Warrington, where two unidentified teenage boys found a missing King Charles spaniel called Max and looked after him before reuniting the dog with his owners, the Warrington Guardian reports. Many times when a dog s lost the ending is a sad one as the pet is either found dead or is never found, sometimes because it has been stolen and sold on to someone else.
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