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[Maltese Cat]

I know this is a long shot, and I'm sorry its not really an SCI topic, but the more people that know about it, the more likely we find her again, so please could you help if you can, and pass this on to anyone you know who may be in the right area?

My mother's dog, Twiggy, a four year old, female, sandy, long-haired lurcher (looks a bit like a scruffy greyhound), jumped over the garden wall onto the Yorkshire dales near Masham, after a bunny, and hasn't been seen since. She is quite used to taking herself off hunting but on Christmas Eve it was really foggy and deep in snow, so she might easily have got lost. She is microchipped, but typically the tag on her collar with our phone number broke off the week before, and we hadn't got round to replacing it.

She has stitches in her left shoulder already, as she cut herself on a nail a week before. She has no body fat at all, and it is REALLy cold up there at the moment. I'm just hoping someone might be looking after her and waiting till the end of the bank holiday to take her to the vet to have her microchip scanned. I am stuck down in Southampton on call all weekend, so feeling totally useless and helpless. I know my mother is trying to be brave and level-headed about it all, but I know that if we lose Twiggy she will be distraught.

Thank you for any help

[StellaLAtella]

I sure hope your Mother's beloved pet has returned home by now. Please keep us updated.
~Stella

[Maltese Cat]

Just to say that today we found Twiggy's body. She was lying next to a fence very near where she had gone missing. My mother thinks she must have run into a fence in the fog and stunned herself, and then died in the cold. She looked totally unhurt - not a mark on her, so maybe it was a peaceful way to go.

[Tetracyclone]

Cat,

Sorry to hear of your family's dog. It was an odd ending. Foolish dog, not to have echolocation. Very sorry.