December 5, 2013

Lauren is a Bichon Frise and only been adopted the day she went missing from the M5 north bound service station on her way to her forever home.

Many searchers had been out and were keeping watch at the service station in the lorry park hoping for a sighting.

While out tracking and happily reuniting another dog further up the M5, I had a call to help and was happy to do so and so arrived a few hours later.

As soon as Tiga was out of the van he was off but not on Lauren’s trail – he immediately picked up the trail of turkey that had been laid to entice Lauren back down the slope where she was seen to run. After this turkey trail had been removed and/or eaten by TIga, he paid attention and stuck to his task in hand. After much snooping around the wooded embankment Tiga came down and led us around the back of the service station shopping centre over to the car park and with great relief did not venture too near the motorway but kept to the car park and then took us over the footbridge to the services the other side much to the great disbelief of the foster team. As we walked over the bridge we could see a white ‘thing’ in the top corner of the field, two fields away. This was investigated by a helper but as approached had disappeared. Tiga continued across the car park on on the southbound side and headed towards a hedge which he was keen to go through. On making our way through to the other side of the hedge it was decided by the helpers that due to the very frightened nature of the rescue dog, she would not have made her way over the bridge, so we pulled Tiga off this scent and continued to follow around the car park before going back over the bridge.

It was thought that Lauren would have continued up the bank through an open fence into fields and towards a farm, so I took Tiga into these fields but indicated that Lauren had not gone that way.

After several more searches it was clear that Tiga could do no more and we headed home leaving the helpers to man the services until the early hours.

Two days later we had a call to say that Lauren had been sighted on the southbound side of the M5 and after a very careful and well executed plan Lauren was safely caught and on her way back to her foster home before being again united with her forever home.

Tiga we should have trusted you.

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