Monthly Archive for May, 2010

Reward offered for safe return of our missing dog Suds

Missing: A small brown and grey female Yorkshire terrier. She is 10 years old.

She was last seen on the Cork-Kinsale road, on the Cork side of Riverstick on Saturday May 1st.

Somebody may have picked her up as the road was very busy over the bank holiday weekend. Many people visited Kinsale for the Rugby 7s and may have seen her.

If you have any information please call 0863160974 or email deniseomeara08@hotmail.com

Lost Dog in Cork Website or the Lost Dog in Cork Facebook group for more information.

Yesterday we went around sticking up posters and talking to people. I’m not even sure that people particularly notice posters once they’re up, but the benefit of walking around the area and talking to lots of people while they see you putting up posters is very real. I’ve heard a lot of similar stories of dogs being taken in the area. I understand that one dog being taken is of very little consequence to anyone other than the family it was taken from, but I can’t understand how dogs can go missing every other week without something being done.

Anyway, I spoke to someone yesterday who might have seen a dog matching Mac’s description near Kilbride Lane in Bray. This road runs between Killarney Road and Herbert Road. The group she described didn’t sound unlike the teenagers and dogs I mentioned previously. I know it’s all a bit tenuous, but please keep your eyes open if you’re in the area. Thanks.

So it’s been a pretty long day, but it’s felt fairly productive.

First up I headed to the Wicklow ISPCA pound in Rathdrum. There’s a dog warden and pound and also a dog sanctuary, they seem oddly connected, yet separate. It almost seemed one was there to save dogs from the other. It was fairly heart breaking all in all, lots of really nice dogs with very uncertain futures. If anyone reading this is thinking about getting a dog, I’d strongly urge you to consider rescuing a pound dog.
On a side note, Mac was originally a rescue dog, we got him when he was about 10 months old through Dogs in Distress. It’s a great organisation, and everyone involved in it seems really clued in to finding the right dog for the right person/family. I know it’s really exciting to get a puppy, but there’s a lot to be said for getting a slightly older (usually) trained dog.

So after visiting the pound, I headed home to sort new flyers out, but my printer (useless HP photosmart) died, so I had to peg it over to Dun Laoghaire. Star Office supplies upstairs in the shopping centre sorted me out. They printed out the flyers at a reduced rate and laminated a bunch of them for free. Really nice of them.

After that, I basically trudged around Bray going into every shop/cafe/headshop/charity shop etc and telling the manager and anyone else listening about Mac. A lot of places agreed to stick up posters, even places that don’t usually take in that kinda stuff. I got around 40 shops to put something up, which isn’t bad. It took a couple of hours, but was well worth it, wish I’d done it sooner.

When I came back up from Bray, we got fairly excited when someone mailed us a pic of a dog that had been found in Meath that looked a lot like Mac. I knew it wasn’t him, but I still had to pull up photos and compare markings. Not our dog unfortunately. Bizarrely I discovered I have a few hundred photos of Mac’s left side, but less than 10 of his right. Weird, don’t see why it doesn’t average out. If you were thinking about getting a dog though, that Meath one certainly sounds nice.

I wrapped up the evening by following up calls with a few people who are helping out on the ground and chasing up on mails etc.
Not a bad day all in all.

My dog Mac was stolen from our family home in Bray on the 26th of April 2010. He is a 2 year old Jack Russell terrier. He is tan and white, fairly small. His tail is docked, but is longer than they usually are. He is chipped and neutered and was wearing a blue bandanna collar with a name tag (though I doubt he still has that on).