MISSING FOR FIVE LONG YEARS TODAY: Rags, female Terrier X from Raven Hayes Woods, Frankley, West Midlands B32.
Caroline Key on 2nd September 2016 at 06:26.
It’s just a day, the sun will rise, and will set. like every other day. It is just a date, a whisper in the wind, something written on the ocean. So why the hell does it feel like a big black hole?
Five years missing today. And five years of fighting to get missing and stolen family members back home. And what has changed? Not a massive lot. Birmingham CC, bless them, now scan domestic animals killed on their roads. Many more vets scan new patients.
BUT. Many people still don’t understand how chips work, that they need to be scanned and checked against the correct database (with the details up to date!) to work. A frightening number of people think if they find a cat or a dog they have “run away” from a cruel owner so it is kind to keep them, or if they look tatty or thin, they have been abused; it doesn’t occur to them that these animals may have been neglected or abused by a thief, or they may have been picked up and dumped, and been trying for weeks to get safe home.
If you think that way, then read on. You try taking a lost crying child home and see what happens – but you think it’s ok to do it with my lass because she walks on four feet?
So you think I’ll “get over it”, “move on”, “get a replacement”? Grow up. Missing NEVER heals.
Doglost link:- http://www.doglost.co.uk/dog-blog.php?dogId=32420
What changed in your life 5 years ago come Friday, 2/9/11? That was a Friday, too. Did you find a funny, loving, energetic terrier?
DO YOU KNOW THIS DOG?
Did you maybe pick her up apparently lost on the roadside, or apparently abandoned at Frankley Services on the M5 2/9/11. Or maybe bought her “in good faith” since? Or know someone who has? At the time she was wearing a Tuff-Stuff blue fabric competition collar (no dangly tags) which had her postcode embroidered on it, though that was very faded.
She would now be 11. She is a female terrier cross, bright gold curly coat, with white running from under her chin, down her chest and over her tummy. She has a short upright tail, and half pricked ears which blow back when she runs. She has a cute “sit up and beg” and many other tricks. She loves agility, and her most favourite hobby is swimming – she leaps into water from a distance, and swims in anything – canals, rivers, the sea, anything.
She came to me off death row via Manytears Rescue, and bonded very deeply with my other dogs – she lived with them for 7 years – yes she was very young when she came here. I am sure she is alive because I believe the others would not still be grieving if she had died – they would know. They knew when my Mum died in hospital, they would know about Rags – this loss they do not understand. Since she left, they have suffered with immune system failures resulting in weird health issues. Three have died, too young, the other one……..still misses her, isn’t well.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME – OR YOU – if you have her, you know her as lovely, funny, infuriating, adorable and you must love her deeply too. If you have her, please, please let her meet her surviving friends again while they are still here. ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTIONS, NO BLAME, NO RECRIMINATIONS.
You can talk to me anonymously though K9searchuk or doglost; we could let Rags and her one surviving friend meet with a third party present to ensure that everything was ok – that I didn’t kidnap her, and you didn’t take her mate.
Please, though, give her this chance. If her friends have suffered this much with the parting, I can only imagine that she feels the same. If you love her, let have meet her friend again, so she can understand and be at peace, not checking everyone she meets who likes like Ragsie.
