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Leave a bone for BLUE *** MISSING ***
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Nicknames:
YUKONWINDS DOOBIE BLUE
Doggie Dynamics:
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Favorite Food:
Mackeral!
Best Tricks:
opening the door by himself thats how he escaped!
Arrival Story:
A faithful dog owner who has already gone to great lengths to find her 4-year-old Siberian husky, missing since May 8, was surprised to find support from hot air balloonists and powered parachutists.
Sharon Young of Brighton Township planned to rent a hot-air balloon to get a bird's-eye view of the area, but instead found Scott Lorenz of Westwind Balloon Co. willing to organize an air search with fellow balloonists, many of whom competed in Howell's Michigan Challenge Balloonfest last month. His friend, Gordon Boring of Wicker Basket Balloon Center, is pitching in.
"I didn't know Scott (Lorenz) from Adam. He has been great, sending e-mails out to his balloon friends to help," Young said Wednesday.
A massive land and air search will scour the Brighton-Milford area on Saturday in search of the lost dog, named Blue.
Lorenz, Boring and others have already been keeping their eyes open when taking passengers up in the Kensington Metropark and Island Land Recreational Area and have passed along sightings of the black-and-white Siberian husky to Young.
Blue has been spotted near the General Motors Proving Grounds in Milford, near Pleasant Valley Road and Commerce, south of M-59 and most recently, July 1 and 2, in the Corlett and Hyne roads area.
"Part of this is about getting the word out. Someone may have been taking the dog in and feeding him, or nursing him back to health," Lorenz said.
Young's story of her lost dog tugged at his heartstrings, too, since Blue ran off the same day Young's father died.
"We're going to have a coordinated effort on Saturday. We'll have some (powered) parachutists helping out since they can control their path. We balloonists, we're going with the wind," Lorenz said.
The air crew will communicate sightings to the ground crew led by Young and her friend Anita Rosenberger. Volunteers will meet at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Park and Ride at Interstate 96's Exit 155/ Milford Road.
Blue is part of a dog sled team and has been trained in agility, as well as self-taught door-opening skills, which is how he escaped from Young's Brighton Township home in the Hyne Road and Old U.S. 23 area. Blue can wrap his mouth around lever door handles and pull, she said.
"I raised him from a pup. He's just one of those babies with an extra special personality," Young said.
Young has posted fliers and issued an "animal Amber Alert" with various dog rescue organizations and Internet sites.
Bio:
BlueBlue acquired his novice Jumpers title at the Siberian Husky Club of Greater Detroit
Agility trial on April 15
He acquired his Novice Standard title on May 6 at the Grand Rapids Agility club Trial in Kentwood MI..
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