WestJet employee sees wayward dog safely home
By The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
March 28, 2008
There was a wagging tail and plenty of sloppy dog kisses at the Saskatoon airport Thursday, after Leya the Bichon-Shih Tzu cross was reunited with her 78-year-old owner.
Calgary airline technician Russell Humphreys was there to hand the dog to her eager owner. He rescued Leya, who was separated from her Saskatoon owner, Kay Gall, in Calgary. Gall's car had rolled on Deerfoot Trail Monday. The two doggy passengers, Leya and Angel, fled the wrecked Volkswagen Westfalia, leaving their owner trapped in her seatbelt waiting for help. By the time Gall was freed, the dogs were nearly out of sight.
"They were way down in the field quite a ways. They were just scared I guess," said Gall. "One of the guys that stopped to help me after the accident went down there to see if we could catch them. . . . He came back and said he couldn't get them. So I wanted to go get them, but the ambulance came and once they got a hold of me they wouldn't let me go."
Gall, who suffered a bruised knee and elbow, was forced to leave the damaged vehicle and lost dogs behind, taking an overnight bus home to Saskatoon.
A day after the crash, Humphreys, a Westjet employee in Calgary, spotted one of the dogs in a fenced-off area while he was driving around the airport.
"She was just a little spot . . . light against the dark background," said Humphrey, who caught the dog in 45 minutes, after recruiting five others to help with the capture. "She's a fast little dog when she gets going . . . It was like the OK Corral."
After the dog was reported to animal control in Calgary, a quick check for a licence showed the dog belongs to Gall.
She received a call from her daughter in Calgary, with both good and bad news: Angel was dead after being hit by a car, but Leya would be returning to Saskatoon on Thursday.
The expectant owner was at the gate at the Saskatoon Airport, waiting for the flight to arrive. She stood as the plane pulled up to the airport, smiling and murmuring she'd "wish they would hurry."
Leya and Humphreys came down, making their way towards Gall, as she called her dog's name over and over. Gall picked up the dog, whose tail was wagging but who was shaking under the scrutiny of local media.
"So you're the man that found her," said Gall.
"Thank you very much."
Humphrey, who owns a Shih Tzu himself, said he requested to come back with the dog, to meet the owner.
"I thought I might as well put an end to the story," he said. "I'm a pet owner myself, so I understand what (Gall)'s going through. I don't get to be in the limelight very much, so this is really nice."
He said the dog put on a whole new front when reunited with Gall.
"She's been scared all morning," Humphrey said to Gall. "Now she's really excited. She's a whole new dog."
Although Gall and Leya were reunited, the dog's owner couldn't help but mourn the loss of her other canine.
"It's nice to know that I still have the one, but it's heart-breaking because we don't have Angel anymore," said Gall.
WestJet spokesperson Gillian Bentley said using the story for promotional material is a "considerable" option.
"I think this fit right in with our caring campaign," she said. "But we'll most likely use it internally."
As the media fray and onlookers departed, Gall was left standing with the pup. She said she plans on going for a walk with Leya when they get home, but Humphrey said the relieved dog will probably want a little break after such a long week.
"She'll sleep like a baby tonight. That's for sure," he said.
Source: http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/local/story.html?id=5d00561d-3667-48f4-853d-879342d3d535
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Monday, August 2, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Maya, chow
Dog Trapped in Foreclosed Home Saved By Bank
Dog owner blames county Animal Services for leaving her pet to die in abandoned home
By Todd Wright
Updated 4:52 PM EDT, Thu, Jun 24, 2010
Just how did the 9-year-old chow chow manage to get a bank to help her out of foreclosure? Easy. Just bark.
The dog had escaped from her North Miami Beach home on June 10 and somehow managed to find herself trapped in an abandoned house a few blocks away. Somehow Maya got into the home and was locked inside with no food or water.
Maya's owner, Kathy Sanchez, put up fliers of the lost dog throughout the neighborhood, hoping someone had seen the well-groomed animal.
Miami-Dade Animal Services apparently was the first to see the dog inside the foreclosed home on June 14, but instead of retrieving the dog, a warning was posted on the house's door that leaving the dog inside was illegal and that they would be fined $1,500.
The employee also took pictures of Maya through a window, but did not try to help the animal.
"They basically left her there to die," Sanchez said.
Animal Services officials said they have no authority to enter private property and take an animal, but apologized to Sanchez for not actively working to free the dog. It has become a disturbing trend that people evicted from homes have left their animals behind.
So like many homeowners, Maya was still stuck in a house she desperately was trying to get out of. She clawed at windows and chewed on the window blinds of the house, her owner said.
Almost a week later, a representative from a bank called Sanchez and said she had found the dog laying in a pool of its own urine inside an abandoned home owned by the bank. She recognized the dog from the flier posted directly outside of the house.
When Sanchez arrived to save Maya, the dog was severely dehydrated and malnourished. She had lost over 8 pounds in the at least 10 days she spent trapped and alone.
"She tried everything possible to survive,"Sanchez said. "I'm just ready to get her home."
Maya has been taken to a local animal hospital for treatment, but things could have been much worse if the bank had not come to the dog's rescue.
Imagine that - a bank looking out for someone trapped in a home.
Source:
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/weird/Dog-Trapped-in-Foreclosed-Home-Saved-By-Bank-97088869.html
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Dog owner blames county Animal Services for leaving her pet to die in abandoned home
By Todd Wright
Updated 4:52 PM EDT, Thu, Jun 24, 2010
There are thousands of South Florida homeowners who want to know Maya's secret.
Just how did the 9-year-old chow chow manage to get a bank to help her out of foreclosure? Easy. Just bark.
The dog had escaped from her North Miami Beach home on June 10 and somehow managed to find herself trapped in an abandoned house a few blocks away. Somehow Maya got into the home and was locked inside with no food or water.
Maya's owner, Kathy Sanchez, put up fliers of the lost dog throughout the neighborhood, hoping someone had seen the well-groomed animal.
Miami-Dade Animal Services apparently was the first to see the dog inside the foreclosed home on June 14, but instead of retrieving the dog, a warning was posted on the house's door that leaving the dog inside was illegal and that they would be fined $1,500.
The employee also took pictures of Maya through a window, but did not try to help the animal.
"They basically left her there to die," Sanchez said.
Animal Services officials said they have no authority to enter private property and take an animal, but apologized to Sanchez for not actively working to free the dog. It has become a disturbing trend that people evicted from homes have left their animals behind.
So like many homeowners, Maya was still stuck in a house she desperately was trying to get out of. She clawed at windows and chewed on the window blinds of the house, her owner said.
Almost a week later, a representative from a bank called Sanchez and said she had found the dog laying in a pool of its own urine inside an abandoned home owned by the bank. She recognized the dog from the flier posted directly outside of the house.
When Sanchez arrived to save Maya, the dog was severely dehydrated and malnourished. She had lost over 8 pounds in the at least 10 days she spent trapped and alone.
"She tried everything possible to survive,"Sanchez said. "I'm just ready to get her home."
Maya has been taken to a local animal hospital for treatment, but things could have been much worse if the bank had not come to the dog's rescue.
Imagine that - a bank looking out for someone trapped in a home.
Source:
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/weird/Dog-Trapped-in-Foreclosed-Home-Saved-By-Bank-97088869.html
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Friday, July 30, 2010
Mikey Brown, terrier mutt
Dog Missing For 5 Years Reunites With Family
Dog Was Living In Home Less Than A Mile From His Mission Hills Family
July 26, 2010
SAN DIEGO -- A Mission Hills family received the surprise of their lives when they were reunited with the dog they had lost five years ago.
Scott Alix never thought he would ever be reunited with his terrier mutt Mikey Brown.
Mikey disappeared five years ago while hanging out one day at Alix's garage door business in Clairemont.
"We're assuming someone had grabbed him thinking he was a lost dog, and I had just taken his collar off," said Alix.
Since then, Alix never forgot about Mikey, and neither did Alix's two sons who grew up with the dog by their side much of the time.
"For some reason, my sons kept having dreams ... they kept saying, 'He's still around here, he's still around here,'" said Alix.
Alix always stayed positive, but he never thought those dreams would actually come true.
Recently, Alix's girlfriend, who did not know Mikey Brown but always heard about him, received a call at Alix's shop from San Diego County Animal Control.
"I immediately said, 'Is this a joke? Because this is cruel if it is … and it's not funny.' They said, 'No, seriously, he's alive. We see that Scott's the owner,'" said Kandee Cole, Alix's girlfriend.
Animal control got a hold of Mikey after a woman caring for him passed away. Mikey had a microchip implanted when Alix adopted him 13 years ago, and that allowed animal control to track down Alix.
"Almost unrecognizable as far as his body, but as soon as you looked at his face, you knew it was Mikey Brown," said Alix.
San Diego County Animal Services said microchip implanting began in the 1990s, and since then about 212,000 pets have had chips implanted. That number also includes every animal the county adopts out.
Placing a microchip in a pet costs $20, and local shelters do clinics every Thursday for licensed pets.
"The babysitter who's been around all these years was in tears," said Cole.
"From what we heard, he was there for someone in their last years, so no ill will at all," said Alix.
Alix told 10News Mikey happened to be living less than a mile away from the family during the five years he was away.
Source: http://www.10news.com/news/24401082/detail.html
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Dog Was Living In Home Less Than A Mile From His Mission Hills Family
July 26, 2010
SAN DIEGO -- A Mission Hills family received the surprise of their lives when they were reunited with the dog they had lost five years ago.
Scott Alix never thought he would ever be reunited with his terrier mutt Mikey Brown.
Mikey disappeared five years ago while hanging out one day at Alix's garage door business in Clairemont.
"We're assuming someone had grabbed him thinking he was a lost dog, and I had just taken his collar off," said Alix.
Since then, Alix never forgot about Mikey, and neither did Alix's two sons who grew up with the dog by their side much of the time.
"For some reason, my sons kept having dreams ... they kept saying, 'He's still around here, he's still around here,'" said Alix.
Alix always stayed positive, but he never thought those dreams would actually come true.
Recently, Alix's girlfriend, who did not know Mikey Brown but always heard about him, received a call at Alix's shop from San Diego County Animal Control.
"I immediately said, 'Is this a joke? Because this is cruel if it is … and it's not funny.' They said, 'No, seriously, he's alive. We see that Scott's the owner,'" said Kandee Cole, Alix's girlfriend.
Animal control got a hold of Mikey after a woman caring for him passed away. Mikey had a microchip implanted when Alix adopted him 13 years ago, and that allowed animal control to track down Alix.
"Almost unrecognizable as far as his body, but as soon as you looked at his face, you knew it was Mikey Brown," said Alix.
San Diego County Animal Services said microchip implanting began in the 1990s, and since then about 212,000 pets have had chips implanted. That number also includes every animal the county adopts out.
Placing a microchip in a pet costs $20, and local shelters do clinics every Thursday for licensed pets.
"The babysitter who's been around all these years was in tears," said Cole.
"From what we heard, he was there for someone in their last years, so no ill will at all," said Alix.
Alix told 10News Mikey happened to be living less than a mile away from the family during the five years he was away.
Source: http://www.10news.com/news/24401082/detail.html
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Logan, husky
Carlisle couple reunited with dog they thought stolen
By Elizabeth Broughton
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
A Carlisle couple have spoken of their joy after the happiest of reunions with the puppy they thought may have been gone for good.
And it’s all thanks to the News & Star that loveable husky pup Logan is finally back where he belongs after nine days of worry for owners Claire and Stewart Norman.
After reading the News & Star article on Saturday, a woman from the Scotby area – who had taken Logan in after finding him on the streets – contacted Claire and Stewart to reunite him with them.
Claire, of Bedford Road, Denton Holme, said: “It was just amazing.
“After it appeared in the paper we were contacted by a woman who had had him for eight days – she said she found him wandering in Scotby but I don’t think he could’ve got there on his own.
“But she took beautiful care of him and it was absolute heaven to see him again.
“The response we had from that article was overwhelming, 100 people must have phoned us. If that article hadn’t gone in I don’t know when we would’ve got him back.”
The couple, who also have another husky pup, Kiefa, were reunited with the 13 month-old just before they were due to board a train to Blackpool for the weekend – and it was the perfect start to their weekend away.
“We felt so bad because my brother-in-law was looking after the puppies for the weekend,” said Claire.
“But we met the woman at the train station and my husband ran round the corner with Kiefa – when she saw Logan they just went mad, it was so nice to see. My husband had been so upset as he felt responsible because he was walking them both when Logan went missing. But it was such a lovely moment being reunited.”
Logan went missing when Stewart was walking him along the River Eden, near Waverley Bridge, and the couple feared he had been stolen to order outside of the county.
“But now he’s back at home Claire, who’s five months pregnant, said it’s like he’s never been away. He has slotted straight back into life with the Normans,” she said.
“We’re so happy he is back where he is supposed to be, this is home.”
Source: http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/carlisle-couple-reunited-with-dog-they-thought-stolen-1.738963?referrerPath=home
By Elizabeth Broughton
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
A Carlisle couple have spoken of their joy after the happiest of reunions with the puppy they thought may have been gone for good.
Claire Norman with Logan
And it’s all thanks to the News & Star that loveable husky pup Logan is finally back where he belongs after nine days of worry for owners Claire and Stewart Norman.
After reading the News & Star article on Saturday, a woman from the Scotby area – who had taken Logan in after finding him on the streets – contacted Claire and Stewart to reunite him with them.
Claire, of Bedford Road, Denton Holme, said: “It was just amazing.
“After it appeared in the paper we were contacted by a woman who had had him for eight days – she said she found him wandering in Scotby but I don’t think he could’ve got there on his own.
“But she took beautiful care of him and it was absolute heaven to see him again.
“The response we had from that article was overwhelming, 100 people must have phoned us. If that article hadn’t gone in I don’t know when we would’ve got him back.”
The couple, who also have another husky pup, Kiefa, were reunited with the 13 month-old just before they were due to board a train to Blackpool for the weekend – and it was the perfect start to their weekend away.
“We felt so bad because my brother-in-law was looking after the puppies for the weekend,” said Claire.
“But we met the woman at the train station and my husband ran round the corner with Kiefa – when she saw Logan they just went mad, it was so nice to see. My husband had been so upset as he felt responsible because he was walking them both when Logan went missing. But it was such a lovely moment being reunited.”
Logan went missing when Stewart was walking him along the River Eden, near Waverley Bridge, and the couple feared he had been stolen to order outside of the county.
“But now he’s back at home Claire, who’s five months pregnant, said it’s like he’s never been away. He has slotted straight back into life with the Normans,” she said.
“We’re so happy he is back where he is supposed to be, this is home.”
Source: http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/carlisle-couple-reunited-with-dog-they-thought-stolen-1.738963?referrerPath=home
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