July 11, 2013

Meg was a tri coloured Border Collie that was being walked on lead by the owner and was approached by two other dogs that were let off their leads and rushed towards Meg frightening her causing her to break free and run scared.

This was fairly local to me to so I offered to help find Meg as I had just a few hours to spare. Tiga picked up the scent from where she was last seen two days before. He took us into the gardens of a very large house which quite by coincidence the owner of the house was calling to say that she had seen Meg in her garden two nights ago. Tiga then tracked through some very dense bramble and out onto a footpath and round and back to the church where the owners car was parked and was parked when Meg went missing. Tiga also took us into a shaded wood next to a house where also the owner later reported her dog barking late at night and wanting to go out. Both these reports came in after posters had gone up as a result of Tiga tracking these areas.

It was extremely hot and very very difficult for Tiga to track and he needed constant rests in the shade and lots of water which we were soon to run out of. This was a concern for Meg as everywhere was dry but we believe she had found water in one of the gardens bird baths as Tiga gave it a good sniff.

There was also another sighting reported the day before in the car park so this clearly indicated that Meg was staying close by as expected.

My time was up as I had another appointment but left the owner with lots of instructions including staying in the car park for as long as she possibly could that night. This she did until she couldn’t keep awake any longer so home she went only to drive past a commotion of cars stopped in the road and people running about. She then returned immediately to the car park having received a call to say she was there in the car park and that commotion was members of the public trying to catch and/or shepherd  Meg off the road.

The owner called me asking for advice and I told her to go back to the car park and wait for as long as it took and gave her advice on what to do when she saw Meg in order to catch her so as not to frighten her off. At 5 in the morning I had a call to say she had seen Meg so I talked through instructions and at 5.30 Meg was on her way home very thin and with very sore pads but otherwise ok.

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