January 21, 2013

Hachi was a rescue cross breed who was being walked with the foster family when a dog off lead charged towards Hachi and he ran off after breaking his lead.

Tiga and I went to help as there was a possibility that Hachi was injured.

Tiga immediately picked up the scent and tracked from where he was attacked and on around some rugby fields but instead of going on around the fields where he knew he turned off into a housing estate much to the surprise of his fosterers as they had never been that way before. I was confident that Tiga was right due to the background of the dog. We continued on around the housing estate and then back out across some fields into a valley before coming back round again into the housing estate and heading almost back to the rugby club where Hachi was attacked. Not far from here was a row of shops and Tiga took us behind these shops to a cafe and insisted on having a look around. There were a lot of food scraps and it was a challenge deciding if Tiga was hungry or if Hachi was there or had been there. We spoke to the owners of the cafe and asked them to keep an eye open for Hachi.

From here we picked up the scent again and headed back to the Rugby Club and it was now dark and the owners had other dogs to feed and walk etc so we called it a night.

Tiga had defined the area that Hachi had travelled with a strong possibility that he would return to the cafe.

In the morning I had a call from Hachi’s fosterers to say that Hachi had been picked up behind the cafe. A trip to the vet revealed an infection presumably from when he was attacked.

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