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I'm so sorry that this happened.  I've been through it and I know it is hard.  My dog was in a car wreck years ago and she ran from the scene.  She didn't go far but she did make it a cross a seven lane highway.  She stayed in a ditch for four days and waited for me to find her.  The day before a guy found her I searched right around her.  I was calling for her and she had to have heard me.  When we got the call that she was found we drove straight there and there she was in the ditch looking at us.  I think she didn't beleive it was us until I touched her.  She may be like Abby and be to scared to come.  Don't give up.  We did 850 posters because we didn't know what else to do.  We put them on people's mailbox flags.  We rolled them up and rubberbanded them to it.  The guy that found her told us what poster he had seen.  It was one of the very last ones we put up.  I hope you find your baby.  Our paws are all crossed.  Don't get up!  Amy 

Oh no! I'm so sorry to hear shes missing, I hope your able to find her soon!

http://www.findtoto.com/ I used that service when we lost the husky in Minnesota last year. It was hugely helpful and generated calls and leads from people that hadn't seen the signs. It helped me to narrow down the sightings to a particular area.

I also found the newspaper and radio ads very helpful in terms of sightings/leads. Local PD and highway dept. helped in my case too.

Best of luck, we'll be thinking about you.

Karen

I want to say this- and please don't think I'm weird but this insistant feeling I have I must share it even if it does turn out to be bunk.

She is very worried and confused. She is backed up against a "building" (which could be a house or a shed or a car) that has large leaves she can sit under, smells of dirt and damp and she can hear an airconditioner or motor running. 

She is convinced the people chasing her are mad at her and so is avoiding her.  She might be less afraid to come out if Coke were with you.  ANd don't yell, just call like you are calling her for dinner.   The fear in your voice(s) is making her feel like she should be afraid to approach.

Ok, there-   I am an animal communicator 'drop out' as I dealt a lot with self doubt but she keeps insisting, so I hope in some way this might be helpful.

She doesn't move around very much, especially where there are lots of cars/people about.

Good luck!!

 I really hope you can find her! Sending all the "find Kenya", "go home Kenya" and "good luck" vibes I can muster!!!

shamrockmommy

She might be less afraid to come out if Coke were with you. 

Excellent idea to bring Coke with you. 

Don't you have friends/training cohorts who do tracking who could track her?  That's how we caught a spooked dog from the rescue.  Used the tracking-trained GSD to find her.

miranadobe

Don't you have friends/training cohorts who do tracking who could track her?  That's how we caught a spooked dog from the rescue.  Used the tracking-trained GSD to find her.

Only Schutzhund tracking, very impractical.

I've been taking Nikon with me every time I go, he has keener senses of course and may attract her attention, but he tracks me or a track, he isn't trained to air scent another dog.

Still no luck.  It takes me two hours to canvass an area she could probably cover in 5 minutes. I did find some really nice spots where I would hide if I were a lost dog.

So sorry to read this, Lies.  *Stay safe*  and *be found quickly* vibes coming your way.

Joyce

There was a dog I used to walk that another dog walker in my area took (well, I gave her the client, long story). She lost the dog, total accident, the dog slipped it's collar when it was spooked by a loud motorcycle. We looked all over the place; parks, woods, backyards, etc. We talked to people. The police and ACO kept an eye out for the dog. We handed out flyers. We took dogs (she was attracted to dogs more than people). We took food. We called and called and whistled. Nothing. 9 whole days went by, NOTHING.

Then there was a call from a roof construction worker, he found her- she dog was curled up in someone's yard, behind a shed, napping. She was practically right where she was initially lost, too! We told him DON'T approach her, just watch her from a distance and we'll be right there. We went over and sure enough there she was, sleeping beauty. We took a slip collar/lead combo, and just gently slipped it on her and walked her out of there. She was filthy, hungry, and thirsty, but no real damage was done.

There's always hope! 

I've asked everyone I talked to NOT to touch her, just throw out a bunch of food and call me and tell me where she is.  Even when she isn't spooked, she is aloof and does not respond to other people's coaxing unless they are giving her commands.  So if someone said, "Kenya, come!" and then "down" they could probably get a leash on her but if they just say her name over and over she won't understand and will run away.

Any more sightings?

Good thoughts and vibes!

My phone rang (well, one of them, I'm keeping all of our phones with me at all times) while I was driving around looking, so I pulled over to answer but missed the call.  It was a number not in the contact list, so I frantically called the number back.  It was just some $^*(^% trying to sell me a retirement fund!  I was so pissed, told him now is NOT the time and hung up.

I feel like I'm not making any headway because I have the flu right now so I can go about an hour on foot before I need to stop.  Then in the car sometimes I have to move with the speed of traffic, or I'm reluctant to call her because of how busy the streets are.  I'm thinking of making a flier for everyone in the area, just asking everyone to please check their own property for any sign of a dog.

The people who lost her went to all the shelters and filled out the paperwork so they will call us if she comes in.  Plus she's chipped and wearing an ID collar so they'd call me anyway.

Oh no, sending all our good vibes that she gets back home quickly. 

PS- Last lost dog I located, what really helped was my scent. When I found he was circling a certain area due to sightings I went there, stayed for hours with no sign of him. I dropped a shirt and a pile of cookies in that spot, on the advice of a musher friend. Hal stayed there until I came back holding my shirt in his mouth and chewing it to bits (he was a stressed out dog).

I've had to catch quite a few lost dogs in the last few years and they all following the same pattern of bolting and then picking an area to circle in, searching, in a pattern, never straying far from a few mile loop.

I know it is hard, but keep up hope, you will find her, calls will start to come in and you will be able to try what I mentioned. The hunters up here use it for the beagles they lose as well.

Where are you? Are there any board members up there that can help you? can I help in any way at all? (like locating phone numbers/faxes of vets and faxing for you, etc?