2-Year-Old Shepherd Chow Named Louie Missing
POSTED: Wednesday, July 20, 2011
UPDATED: 2:47 pm EDT July 27, 2011
HIGHLAND, Mich. -- A dog who was the subject of a social media-based search initiative since early July has been found.
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| More pictures of Louie at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LXKWA_b4UI |
Meredith Miller, of Highland, said 2-year-old shepherd chow mix named Louie is her pride and joy.
"He means everything to us," she said.
Miller said she and her fiancee were in Chicago on July 6 and had left Louie with her parents. She said she was heartbroken when she got the call that he had gotten away.
"My initial reaction when they called was that I was standing in the middle of Chinatown crying in front of just groups of people," she said. "Because I'm emotional and I'm very attached to this dog."
Miller said she wasn't immediately able to get home to search for Louie, so she started a virtual one.
"I didn't know what else to do. There was nothing that I could do from that hotel room. So, I got on Facebook on my laptop and put it here," she said. "And meditatively, I don't remember how many there were in the beginning, but all of my friends pretty much responded right away."
Miller started the Facebook page "Looking for Louie," which garnered more than 1,000 followers.
Details on where or how Louie was found weren't posted on the page, but group members posted pictures of Louie and Miller being reunited and messages of thankfulness and congratulations.
Source: http://www.clickondetroit.com/family/28614267/detail.html
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Skittish pet rescued from hoarding situation on the run in Highland Township
By Carol Hopkins, The Oakland Press
Published: Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Louie ran away from a home in Highland Township on July 6 and has been missing since.
Meredith Brown and her fiancé were visiting Brown’s parents in Highland this month when the couple decided to take a short trip to Chicago.
The couple left their dog, Louie, at the parents’ home, but the dog ran away July 6. Brown has been trying to locate the dog, which has had a hard life.
“It’s been the worst week of my life,” said Brown, who has been frantically searching for the dog.
Louie — a 2½-year-old, 50 pound shepherd chow mix dog — is mainly brown with a dark muzzle, floppy ears and a curly tail. The dog is skittish and afraid of people.
Brown, who has resided in Baltimore for seven years and works as an elementary school teacher, has the summer off.
She and her fiancé decided to visit her parents, who live in the Axford Acres subdivision, located east of Harvey Lake Road between North Milford Road and East Wardlow Road in Highland.
The couple brought along Louie, a dog with an unusual history.
“He was in a horrible situation,” Brown said. A man in Clark County, Ohio, was hoarding dogs, including Louie.
“He had 300 dogs and 70 were dead,” she said. “This is why Louie is so scared and doesn’t trust people.”
Rescue authorities recovered the dogs and, because there were so many dogs, the Washington, D.C. shelter took 30 of the dogs, she said.
“Because our dog died, we were looking for a dog,” she said.
Brown said her parents were well-informed about Louie’s behaviors, but while Brown and her fiancé were away and her parents were home sleeping, the dog went up on a dresser, managed to open a window, tore through the screen and jumped out.
“Louie has severe separation anxiety when I’m not there,” said Brown. “He bonded with me so quickly. I was his world. He focused on me 100 percent of the time and follows me from room to room. He left to go in search of me.”
Brown’s father spotted the dog early on. After Brown posted fliers in the area and announced on her Facebook page she was searching for the dog, she received calls about people seeing him.
“I’m driving 15 hours a day but I’m always five minutes behind,” she said. Milford police contacted Brown, telling her they saw the dog and were tracking him.
“When the officer got out of his car, Louie took off,” said a weary-sounding Brown.
Brown is asking anyone who sees the dog to follow him but not to scare him away. Then call her.
“I think the only chance is if he sees me,” she said.
Brown worries her dog by now is suffering and hungry.
She said, “He doesn’t know people are looking for him.”
Source: http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2011/07/13/news/local_news/doc4e1db6f595c27787923128.txt?viewmode=fullstory
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