January 14, 2013
Maisie a Cairn Terrier was being walked by her elderly owner on the National Trust Heathland at Dunwich on the Suffolk coast when she slipped on the ice and dropped the extending lead which then bumped along behind Maisie frightening her which caused her to run off. A distraught owner was still not reunited with Maisie after extensive searches by friends, family, volunteers and National Trust staff. The temperatures were below -8 and with snow having fallen after 8 days with no sign, it was not looking good for Maisie.
Someone had heard of Tiga and we were called up to Suffolk and agreed to go up and stay overnight in the NT car park. We arrived and when I saw the landscape – I thought ‘Oh’ – it was a huge expanse of heather and gorse for as far as you could see. Undaunted we set to work and met the lady in the Coast guard kitchen who gave us the coat belonging to Maisie for him to get the scent from and off we went. With misleading stories of where Maisie ran off from didn’t help the situation but Tiga had picked up the scent and after about two hours was on the trail and now with a National Trust warden we heard a terrier bark, we stood and listened to see if we heard it again but Tiga was already heading towards something that was moving. We followed and my first sight was that of a waggy tail – it was Maisie who was tied up by the extending lead which was wrapped around the bush about a dozen times with only about twelve inches of lead free. Clearly Maisie had tried to chew through but had failed. I quickly picked her up and to my delight she was warm and didn’t seem to be distressed but happy to have been found.
We rushed her back to the kitchen to await a very overjoyed owner, who found it very difficult to believe Maisie had been found and was perfectly ok.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-21233780
http://www.lifewithdogs.tv/2013/01/dog-survives-eight-days-lost-in-freezing-temperatures/
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