New campaign

After the activity of the weekend, and the lack of anything else as far as sightings go, i've been putting on my pro-active head in order to get the publicity machine back in full swing.

Knowing that we have Crufts coming up, and how much we are looking forward to seeing all of our friends (and fur friends), it suddenly dawned on me that there is an opportunity to be had there. A real audience to be told that our dog is still missing.An opportunity not to be overlooked.

So, hot chocolate at the ready, and wrist poised, I went to the website for Crufts, clicked on the exhibitors page, and hall by hall emailed every single stall holder, from Arden Grange to Pet Boutiques.

I think all in all I sent nearly 420 emails, and had an astonishing response from then emailing me back, telling me how very sorry they were that Jacob was missing and that "yes absolutely" they would display his poster on their stand. RESULT !

Fantastic ! My aching wrist, and headache for sitting emailing straight for 6 hrs was very much worth it !

On the back of those emails I can only hope that coupled with the missing posters on many stands, and our joint effort in offering out flyers to every single person we meet, I just hope more than anything that someone sees the information about Jacob and remembers something.

A neighbour who mysteriously has a new dog but is cagey about it's origins?

A dog someone has seem roaming about in their area many times (wherever that be),

someone acting suspiciously with a uncooperative or perhaps frightened dog,

just something that could lead to us seeing our lovely boy come home.

I am sure that someone knows something. I don't believe that a dog can mysteriously not have been seen, not for almost 5 weeks straight without anyone knowing something.

Please tell me that this world hasn't become so hostile and uncaring that the general public would rather walk away from a dog seen wandering than calling someone, anyone, to make them aware of it perhaps being lost or in danger.

This quiet, this awful quiet always sets our minds wandering.

The luxurious allowance of deep thought and contemplation isn't something we relish.

The mind can play out many 'what if's', and can (if allowed) end up making us just so distraught with those scenario's racing through our minds, that is can be difficult to not think the worse has happened to him.

We of course aren't naive enough to not know that this is a possibility, but then so is the fact that either he's out in there on a huge adventure, or he's with someone being fed cake and digestives whilst perched on a comfy sofa. I just want that to be our comfy sofa !

Quite frankly, we'd much rather be out there, hot on a fresh lead, driving round an area, hoping, really hoping this will very much be 'J' day.

I'm hopeful the 'Cruft's campaign' can realise some information for us. I'm excited at the prospect.

I have to mention Ffion and Tim, as they head off to New Zealand for a few weeks, we can only hope that now that you have dared to step out of the comfort zone, that boy of yours will decide it's party over, time for warm log fires, and snuggly blankets 'Thank You very much'.

I do so hope that come a few weeks down the line, the souvenir Sky brings back from his travels will be just himself :-)

Have a wonderful trip guys, you so deserve it.