December 22, 2013

Nelson was a young two year old Springer Spaniel that decided to chase a deer while on a walk in a large country estate close to home and hadn’t returned home.

We were contacted by the owner to see if we could help and because Tiga was tired from lots of tracking in recent days I decided to give Yogi a go who is Tiga’s half brother and is training to be a tracker dog.

We arrived at the house of the owner and I gave Yogi the bed belonging to Nelson and off we went to the place where nelson was last seen. Yogi seemed to have picked up the scent immediately and off we went in the direction in which Nelson was seen to go, soon after Yogi went round and round and in all directions in a woodland which is where we suspect Nelson chased the deer. On we went eventually going along a field edge and it looked like we were heading towards a railway but thankfully Yogi stuck to the field edge and took us out onto a road and into a small field alongside a river. From here we went back onto the road and continued along this road going into and out of a number of gardens before eventually arriving back at the main entrance to the country estate much to my surprise.

Yogi continued along the main drive and took us up a drive of a house where the owner received a text from her son about a dog barking. She was unable to get a signal to get back to her son to clarify and so we pulled Yogi away and along the road until the owner was able to make contact and confirm it was an old text from the night before. It was now getting dark and the owner had to collect her children from school and so we called it a day having established that Nelson had returned to the country estate and would more likely than not be close by.

Sadly in the morning I had a call from the owner to say that Nelson had been found in the pond at the house where Yogi had taken us to. This confirmed that Yogi’s training was going well and he was ready for more challenges. It was a blessing in disguise that Yogi had been pulled away and that he did not find Nelson in the pond in the early stages of his career as I know how upset Tiga is when he finds dogs in this situation.

Bizarrely Nelson went missing on the day that Mandela died and the owner was from the same city that his state funeral was to be held.

R.I.P Nelson and Run Free.

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