November 5th 2009 2:47 pm
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UPDATE: FRIDAY 7/24
Emily IS HERE!!!
Lost Chihuahua mix - 8 months old - 6 pounds - microchipped- very shy! She has been spotted in this neighborhood on Marrow, Benton, and Northington Streets.
DO NOT CHASE AFTER HER! She might run away from this area.
$200 Reward for capture. Contact: XXX XXX XXXX
with any information at all, even sightings.
(From the flip side of the original flyer printed July 2009:)
All About EMILY...
Important: Emily is up to date on all shots!!! - Incl. Rabies.
Emily is one of 72 dogs seized from an animal hoarder by Animal Control Officers in South Carolina a few weeks ago. She is being rescued my Animal Adoption & Rescue Foundation (www.AARF.org)
of Richmond. Emily was on her way to that rescue group when she escaped from the volunteers making a transport switch at the Cracker Barrel Saturday July, 11. Sadly, she had only that final distance to go for safety.
Emily has had little human contact in her short life, and what contact she has experienced has been bad. She started off at the hoarder with so many animals that none received the attention and care needed to become used to human contact... Then she was seized and turned into the Pound, scary! Then she was spayed, and given all her shots, ouch! Next, she was passed to various drivers she had no clue about.
Her last human contact was when one of the volunteers made a failed grab for her at the Cracker Barrel.
She does not know her name, and will not come to you! We do hope she might get hungry enough to accept smelly food , such as: Canned cat food, canned Salmon, or she might be attracted to your cook out...
IF YOU SEE EMILY...
1) Call us and let us know! We are trying to keep track of her and have humane traps set in the area in hope of capturing her. The traps are being checked regularly by local residents.
2) PLEASE DO NOT CHASE AFTER HER! That will only make this bad situation worse. She might move out of the area and be lost forever.
3) If she has cornered herself, or can be lured inside a secure building or yard, we encourage you to take the chance to capture her.
AARF CONTACT: XXX XXX XXXX
Local Contact: XXX XXXX
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Several of these flyers were printed in the following weeks. Each time another neon color paper was used. I think the neighborhood got used to looking for updates and the different colors.
November 5th 2009 11:47 am
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Sunday continued my string of driving weekends as I ran my daughter up to a summer camp in Northern Virginia, another 140 mile round trip. On the way back I got a call from my AARF contact; She had been fielding sighting calls all afternoon. Emily was indeed in that neighborhood that was my last gasp from the day before! South Hill was across the State from where I was at the time.
Back at work Monday, I resolved to create more and better flyers and make sure no home in that neighborhood missed word of our search for Emily. The flyers were created, and I arrainged to take Tuesday off to distribute the information and to do another search.
November 5th 2009 11:36 am
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Going to work Monday was a relief! I was totally exausted from the weekend. I was depressed, my legs were cut and the posion ivy was going strong. I made the obligatory calls to the police, the two local vets, the SPCA the next town over...
A word about the South Hill police... THEY WERE WONDERFUL!!! They were with us evey step of the way. They searched that first night, and agreed to check the traps left behind for Emily or anything else captured. I do believe the entire force made some effort in the recovery. The police got us in contact with a few locals that ended up playing a major role in the chase. We never head from the Animal Control guy.
Monday, I got the only picture of Emily we had and made a flyer with her picture. We didn't hear a thing about Emily that first week, but the plan was to return Saturday and search again.
A couple of transport girls from way south got in contact with the search group. They told this interesting story:
They transported Emily too. When they were making the swap with the driver that I met up with, Emily almost escaped them too! Long story short, the grabbed her as she almost slipped loose and tossed her into the crate I was to open an hour later. Remember, the only warning I got was, "She is shy and scared." Almost evey dog ever transported is 'shy and scared'. No one ever mentioned she almost escaped!
The Saturday a week after her escape, we all met back in South Hill. We searched all afternoon, no sightings, no luck.
Thinking she would be likely killed or lost forever if she actually crossed the Interstate, I posted signs on both sides of the Interstate but concentrated on the original side nearest the cloverleaf Emily was last seen in. There was an open field near by, some more woods and a neighborhood after that.
Feeling hopeless for this six pound dog, I blanketed this neighborhood in hope she might check their trash cans for food if she were still alive.
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