Sugar, the GSD, sold on Craigslist

OK well, if this isn't a lesson to keep the efforts to publicize a missing pet going, nothing is. The story doesn't really portray the family as working relentlessly to find their beautiful German Shepherd, in my opinion, but in the early efforts that they took, they did post fliers at animal hospitals. And at least one of them left it up (unless the family did put up continuing efforts that weren't discussed in the article) for as long as nine months.


Family reunited with lost dog
March 26, 2009 09:28 PM EDT

SPOKANE - A strange twist of fate has reunited a local family with their long lost dog who has been missing since last June.


"We came one home day and Sugar was missing," Miranda Remington said, referring to her 9-month-old German Shepard who disappeared from her home one day early last summer.

"I honestly didn't think I've ever see her again," Ryan Remington added.

Miranda and Ryan printed dozens of these flyers, posting them at Spokanimal and local vet clinics offline while also posting messages on Craigslist online. Weeks and months went by without any word about their dog. Then last Sunday they received a phone call.

"It was somebody saying, are you the owners of Sugar, and we were like yeah, we lost her last June, she said, I've got your dog and I need to return her," Miranda said.

That call came from Brandi Gimbel, who found Sugar advertised for sale on Craigslist last September and paid a woman $150 for the dog.

"We brought her home and she followed the kids around in the back yard she was great, we had little kiddie pools out there, because it was September, still kinda warm," Brandi said.

As far as Brandi knew, everything was on the up and up, there was no reason to think otherwise. Then last week, during a visit to the vet, she learned the truth.

"When we got there, I actually seen her flyer and that's when my heart just kinda dropped in my stomach, I didn't know what to think about it," Brandi said.

The flyer had been posted by Miranda and Ryan Remington for their missing dog Sugar.

"It was pretty astonishing, I was just amazed that somebody would called, she's a great dog, I was just shocked," Ryan Remington said.

When Miranda and Ryan showed up at Brandi Gimbel's home, "we all cried, when we got there, we all cried over her" Miranda said.

"I was crying because I was sad and they were crying because they were happy," Brandi Gimbel said.
For one family it was a homecoming. For another family it was heartbreak.

"She was my daughter's best friend so it was hard to give her up," Brandi Gimbel said.

"Not everyone is good, not everyone is bad, we just happen to start off with some bad people and who had her and ended up with some great people who gave her back," Miranda Remington said.

Source: KYLX http://www.kxly920.com/Global/story.asp?S=10079734
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