Tuesday 24 February 2009

Just like buses.....


......you wait and wait and then 2 come along at once !
We had our second call today, a lady called saying she thinks she saw him in the car park of a children's play barn in Birchanger, Bishops Stortford on Wednesday 18th Feb around 7pm.
She said she was sure it was him, he was tall, very, very skinny, and orange and white.
She saw him on her way past initially, as she was travelling towards the airport at Stansted.
On her return back past the same road half an hour later, he was still there (oh how I wish we knew that - that is SO painful to know)
She said this time she got out to see if he would come to her, but as she had 2 young children in the car couldn't make a chase for him.
She also said she remembered his eyes, and thinks it was him having seen a poster yesterday.
The lady said he ran off towards the car sales place just across the road to the play barn, and then disappeared.
Jon came hurtling back from work about 11.30am and we gathered 120 laminated posters and 100 flyers and went off to the area. We have literally postered the whole place and surrounding villages to within an inch of our lives !
Now we have to sit, and wait......
I really hope that someone sees the posters in the next few days.
Surely one person only couldn't have seen him.
The road is the main road through to both Stansted, Stansted Airport and Cambridge, so people would be going through there all hours of the day and night.
Again, we are at the mercy of the public, and all we can do is hope for that call.
We have called the local police, dog warden, Homebase, children's play barn, Focus DIY, car sales lot, BMW garage all of which are in the direct vicinity of the sighting.
The JD's (our name for the 5 Jacob Detectives!) have been keenly emailing and calling everyone from taxi companies to dog trainers this afternoon.
Once we get a call, those JD's act with military haste, whilst we get out and search and poster, to have such dedication and help from these girlies, well, they are just brilliant.
As I said earlier, now we just have to sit patiently (yeah right) and wait for the calls -
Much the same scenario is playing out for Ffion and Tim with their missing Labrador Sky.......
3 calls today, something that no doubt would have had them reaching the ceiling with hope, but sadly all were about a dog which seems reliant of dashing their hopes. ROCKY !
I wish Rocky's owners would keep their dog from wandering.
Keep the faith you two, we'll share that champagne once our boys have found their way back from the Dogs Club on Mars....!

1 comment:

  1. Oh how I wish he was just ON one of those buses for you! Thinking so positively for you that this LEAD is going to bring results.....Alyson

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