Dogs

#976
#976
Spartacavolus said:
Its been a long day. Still no calls. No sightings. No body. No buzzards. Walking and driving around to try and find a dead body or look for signs is mentally taxing for everyone. I covered some pretty good thick woods today on foot. I started on the opposite end of where he last was seen going in and worked back. Just picked off about the 30th tick, but I got through.
I now hope to get news one way or the other so we can move on. Then again, supposedly terriers like this have the survival skills of a ninja at times. I don't know what to think or do obviously. Why hope if he's already dead. Then I get a call from a good friend that is a pretty big name in the dog world and he tells me that a dog like that in this area could hide out for a month before deciding its time. Its possible he is dead. And its possible he has set up camp somewhere and laying low and sleeping during the day while keeping on the move at night with night predators.
Thanks for the place to rant. Not a lot of words being shared in my home right now.
Click to expand...

Good luck Sparty. If it's any consolation I know a guy that found his dog a month after it went missing. It was a little dog. A hunter saw coyotes chasing it one day. Remembered a poster of the dog so be shot the coyote and then went and found the owner. However long it takes hopefully you'll find yours too.
 
#980
#980
Nothing fellas. Not trying to be suspenseful. Just tired of it. Don't even want to talk to anyone or post. No lulz's right now for me and I'm a happy dude. Or I was.
 
#985
#985
thinking about taking down the signs and writing him off. That sounds bad, but this hope and constant looking isn't healthy. Everytime I see a dead animal or a deer, or fox, or dog, my stomach sinks for a second. Our vacation is coming up Saturday and we need it more than ever, but I don't believe my wife will want to go unless we know something, and we won't. And I can't leave her here waiting for a probably dead dog to show up by herself. And the kids need to get away from this.
Honest question. Would it be bad to say I found him dead, had him picked up and tried to move ahead? If he showed up one day, I wouldn't be in too much trouble.
Does that sound stupid as hell?
From what I have read and dog people I have talked to, he's either dead or hiding out in the woods staying away from people. The worst thing they did was all go after him immediately and that scared him even more. There is plenty of water, rabbits, rats, chipmunks, and all kinds of creek bugs and animals in a creek that basically runs a big circle.
If he's alive, he won't come out until he's desperate or loony and this weather has been perfect, and the water/food available to him in the woods or to sneak up near peoples garbage cans at night. With Rat Terriers and their stubborn and skittish temperament, he could live there and noone would see him. Still no bad smells of death. Still no dogs on the side of the road. Still no calls or sightings. Every second I think he could come up scratching on the door is immediately followed by me picturing him getting torn up by coyotes and its driving me crazy. It's like a movie rerun. Over and over.
 
#986
#986
Sparty, at this point I think you should try to move on. If you find him at this point, its not going to be from actively looking for him. It's going to be him coming back to you or getting picked up. I would keep calling the shelter every few days and don't take the signs down, but stop searching and begin preparing your family to move on.

Sorry buddy.
 
#987
#987
Thrasher865 said:
Sparty, at this point I think you should try to move on. If you find him at this point, its not going to be from actively looking for him. It's going to be him coming back to you or getting picked up. I would keep calling the shelter every few days and don't take the signs down, but stop searching and begin preparing your family to move on.

Sorry buddy.
Click to expand...


I agree. I don't feel that he is still alive anyway, in my gut. Same feeling I had with Stevie, except he was hit immediately. As this has drawn on, it's been harder than before.

They were all 3 studs. I had to put Mousse down and we got Stevie a few days later.

mousselast.jpg

stevieporch.jpg
lennyT.jpg
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#988
#988
Don't make up a story. That could turn out bad. I would leave the signs up just in case. You never know, he could've been taken in by someone who hasn't seen your signs
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#990
#990
I've been praying you would find him every day, but I just have to throw my 2 cents in here, for what they're worth.

Don't make up a story to tell your kids. They are smart enough to understand the situation and they deserve to be trusted with the truth. Don't give up on Lenny either. If you all never see him again, so be it, you will rest assured knowing that you did everything you could for his well being and happiness. Miracles still do happen, and it could turn out that he is found eventually. He may already be found, but by someone who doesn't know who he belongs to yet. I don't know who is telling you this stuff about him hiding from everybody, but he has had positive human interaction from you and your family and when he gets hungry enough, he will try trusting a human again. As the dog whisperer always says, dogs live in the now!

As for me, I will continue praying that God will reunite you, and trusting the outcome one way or the other to Him.

I know you don't know me from Adam, so I'm sorry if I'm intruding. God bless you!
 
#991
#991
SDV said:
Don't make up a story. That could turn out bad. I would leave the signs up just in case. You never know, he could've been taken in by someone who hasn't seen your signs
Click to expand...


unless it's Usain Bolt or a blind person. That's the problem with this breed and his personality. If he hears a human, he is so scared right now that he would run the other way.
If he is alive and somebody is able to help him, it would be because he basically keeled over in a spot where someone could see him.
Reading up on Rat Terriers has been interesting though. Roosevelt loved them. Stubborn and very smart dog, in some ways. Bred to live on farms and roam the land.
 
#992
#992
J-P said:
I've been praying you would find him every day, but I just have to throw my 2 cents in here, for what they're worth.

Don't make up a story to tell your kids. They are smart enough to understand the situation and they deserve to be trusted with the truth. Don't give up on Lenny either. If you all never see him again, so be it, you will rest assured knowing that you did everything you could for his well being and happiness. Miracles still do happen, and it could turn out that he is found eventually. He may already be found, but by someone who doesn't know who he belongs to yet. I don't know who is telling you this stuff about him hiding from everybody, but he has had positive human interaction from you and your family and when he gets hungry enough, he will try trusting a human again. As the dog whisperer always says, dogs live in the now!

As for me, I will continue praying that God will reunite you, and trusting the outcome one way or the other to Him.

I know you don't know me from Adam, so I'm sorry if I'm intruding. God bless you!
Click to expand...


Thank you. I wouldn't post this here if I didn't want input and noone is intruding.
I'm down 8 lbs from Thursday now and haven't slept much, so my already crazy mind is going haywire.

And I repeat, there are people reading this that have much more important issues, but this is the dog thread, so I'm leaving it all out there.

Now, if I go to the ff and start a prayer thread, send somebody to whip my ass. Pronto.
 
Last edited:
#993
#993
You may have already done this, but being that we're dealing with a rat terrier, expanding your animal shelter contacts beyond Brentwood would definitely be a good idea. I have a rat terrier, and the two times she was able to get out, she ran and ran and ran, so she covered a lot of ground in a real big hurry.

Come to think of it, this sort of thing really illustrates the need for a more central communication website to track lost and found dogs. There are hundreds of organizations, shelters, blogs, etc. Far too many to contact. If there was one website per state or something where people could post photos of dogs that have been lost and of dogs that have been found, it might make it easier to reunite owners.

Maybe some of you younger IT types out there could run with that idea.

EDIT: I guess I was confused when I wrote this yesterday. I have what we believe to be a wire haired Jack Russell terrier, not a rat terrier. Similar in their desire to escape and run, but not the same. :fool:
 
Last edited:
#996
#996
Spartacavolus said:
unless it's Usain Bolt or a blind person. That's the problem with this breed and his personality. If he hears a human, he is so scared right now that he would run the other way.
If he is alive and somebody is able to help him, it would be because he basically keeled over in a spot where someone could see him.
Reading up on Rat Terriers has been interesting though. Roosevelt loved them. Stubborn and very smart dog, in some ways. Bred to live on farms and roam the land.
Click to expand...
My grandpa had a rat terrier. He lived on 10 acres but that little Fawker thought he owned 1000 acres. Good luck Sparty. Maybe he'll be like a Tom cat and get into a little trouble out on his own but come home on his own licking wounds. We had a tomcat growing up that I swear went on spirit quests regularly. He'd always come back near death but limping along.
 
#997
#997
IMG_20130801_165227_122.jpg


Anyone want a husky?
 
New Posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

Advertisement



Back
Top