We today released a reward amount of £500 for Jacob's safe return
Today we decided to 'stalk' the village of Wimbish as there have now been 2 separate phone calls to us reporting a dog very similar to Jacob, being walked on the lead by a man.
The first call early this week, from a reputable farmer, who knows his dogs, and who even went home to check his breed book. He phoned us back and said was sure it was Jacob.
It just seemed incredible that anyone would have enough gall to walk a missing dog past the many, many posters, and through the village without a care in the word ?
Surely not......?
The second call came through last night from a lady, also stating the same man, walking the dog described as being Jacob. Spooky.....
Having been out in Wimbish with friends earlier in the week to rule out the farmers sighting, this second sighting kind of prayed on our minds, we needed to rule it out, find out whose dog looks like Jacob, and mark it off the list.
So, this morning we set off armed with 50 more laminated posters (would we find a bare telegraph pole there needing postering I wonder!) and 100 flyers.
Between both of us, Jon and I used every last poster, and came home with about 10 flyers left.
We spoke to many people in the village, asked about this dog that had been sighted, but no one seems to know anything.
Hardly surprising really though....
Wimbish is a drive through kind of village, whereby houses are set into clusters, or large farmhouses are set back from the road and are lonesome.
If someone did have Jacob there, he could quite easily be being kept without causing any reason for suspicion.
To try to fathom out who he is, we have put flyers through each and every door and farm, basically in the hope that others in the village might also report a dog being walked by this man, and know who and where he lives so we can go and talk to him and see the dog in question.
We have 'stalked' the place this man and dog were seen, and at the same times, but have seen nothing.
We just have to rule it out as a dog that looks similar as we know through friends there are no other Bracco in that area.
I guess that the problems in general you are faced with with a scenario of people 'seeing' our dogs, or any missing dog are pure and simple, and it makes all the difference as to who it is that 'sees' him or her.
You are faced with a few things that really can and do hinder information being forthcoming:
1. Some folks simply don't like dogs, so wouldn't really care if they saw your dog, knowingly aware that it is missing, matters not
2. Some folks don't want to be 'involved', so even if they are privy to info, choose not to pass it on for fear of getting involved
3. There are folks out there that believe a dog without a collar, rough, underfed and 'found' means it's anyones for the keeping - i.e no collar, no home. I am sure these people really do exist.
These 3 pointers worry us, and I guess most others riding this rollercoaster.
You have to rely on information from all of those above, and more so on the good people out there that have dogs, and generally do care and want to help you be reunited. They are the ones who have the ability to bring the missing dog back home.
It will be 2 weeks tomorrow since we had the Purton End sighting, it's been a long 2 weeks, but we are very hopeful that now we have released a reward sum of £500 for Jacob's safe return, someone who knows something, or even anyone that has him, can let us have him back.
Hoping so much that tomorrow will be (as Jackie would say!) 'J' Day, and the day we can all celebrate his homecoming
If someone did have Jacob there, he could quite easily be being kept without causing any reason for suspicion.
To try to fathom out who he is, we have put flyers through each and every door and farm, basically in the hope that others in the village might also report a dog being walked by this man, and know who and where he lives so we can go and talk to him and see the dog in question.
We have 'stalked' the place this man and dog were seen, and at the same times, but have seen nothing.
We just have to rule it out as a dog that looks similar as we know through friends there are no other Bracco in that area.
I guess that the problems in general you are faced with with a scenario of people 'seeing' our dogs, or any missing dog are pure and simple, and it makes all the difference as to who it is that 'sees' him or her.
You are faced with a few things that really can and do hinder information being forthcoming:
1. Some folks simply don't like dogs, so wouldn't really care if they saw your dog, knowingly aware that it is missing, matters not
2. Some folks don't want to be 'involved', so even if they are privy to info, choose not to pass it on for fear of getting involved
3. There are folks out there that believe a dog without a collar, rough, underfed and 'found' means it's anyones for the keeping - i.e no collar, no home. I am sure these people really do exist.
These 3 pointers worry us, and I guess most others riding this rollercoaster.
You have to rely on information from all of those above, and more so on the good people out there that have dogs, and generally do care and want to help you be reunited. They are the ones who have the ability to bring the missing dog back home.
It will be 2 weeks tomorrow since we had the Purton End sighting, it's been a long 2 weeks, but we are very hopeful that now we have released a reward sum of £500 for Jacob's safe return, someone who knows something, or even anyone that has him, can let us have him back.
Hoping so much that tomorrow will be (as Jackie would say!) 'J' Day, and the day we can all celebrate his homecoming
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