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As many of you know, since I told just about EVERYBODY, Georgie a border collie puppy(not the German Shepherd). Since the story has a happy ending I asked Jennifer to send me what happened. See below for her story:  Georgie is on the left and Sasha on the right Last Saturday while we were at my sons baseball game, my 21 year old step son came to the house and spooked out Georgie enough that she escaped from the back yard. She had never met him before and she is the more nervous of the two puppies. I'm sure that Michael was just trying to calm her, when she squeezed herself through the rod iron fence. The house sits on two acres of land and has a very long curvy driveway. Georgie went so fast up the driveway that Michael could not see which way she went. Shortly after all this, we got home and began looking for her. We roamed the hills calling her name, asking neighbors if they had seen her and as it started getting dark we began to worry even more. The search went until midnight as we could not bear for our little 5 month old puppy being out in the wilderness all night on her own. Sunday we posted over 50 signs, checked with the local humane society, posted missing puppy notices on Craigslist, K9Alert, and Youtube. Monday the 5th of May (day three) the kids were off from school and we continued searching. Georgie belongs to our 10 year old son, and by this time the impact and reality of not finding he had become more then he could bare. He finally broke down and just cried a very deep an emotional cry. We all cried thinking that we may never get her back. Even though we had Georgie's sister Sasha, seeing my daughter with her puppy made it even harder on my son. Sasha was also visibly sad and confused without her sister. Monday evening we had their obedience class at Petsmart. My son Cheyne would not go, but my daughter still wanted to take Sasha. Ironically the lesson topic was teaching your dog to come when called and what to do if your dog gets lost. During that lesson I received a call from a man who had seen our signs. Not wanting to get my hopes up, he had a lead. Saturday afternoon he and his daughter saw Georgie going down a long driveway about a 1/4 mile for our house. This driveway was more like a private drive with 3 homes on it. They were having a garage sell that day and I can only imagine that Georgie was attracted to the activity. After the first call, we received two other calls suggesting the same location. Hopes were high thinking that she was still OK and we now had a general location to search. The kids dad went to search that area after work on Monday. He asked the neighbors about Georgie and called out for her. The 3 private drive homes back up to a big bushy hillside. Just as Bruce was going to go home and change his clothes to search the bushy hillside he decided to take a peek in a garage window. To his amazement, there she was looking back at him. We can only assume that she hid in the garage during their garage sell and the owner never knew that she was there when they closed the door. Yes, a very happy ending and a very happy 10 year old boy. Georgie was a little thin but otherwise fine. We are looking forward to taking both puppies to their obedience class on Monday. Thanks for caring, Jennifer WOOHOO! A happy boy and bc siblings reunited. My favorite, a bc happy story. Congrats to the Mintor clan. -bikeguy |