It’s now been 186 days since our family member, Digger, was lost by the boarding facility (Baxter & Beasley in Palatine) whose business was to safely and securely take care of him while we were on vacation. The search hasn’t stopped. The emotions haven’t subsided. The roller coaster continues. When it’s your family member, and there’s no closure, moving on is practically impossible.
Because he’s microchipped, and we’ve been in constant contact with so many entities who would have been able to reach us if he was no longer of this world, we believe he’s still out there somewhere. He’s such a family loving / people loving / food loving dog, it’s not unreasonable to think that someone has taken him in, and he’s living with another family somewhere.
So what can you do to keep helping? Keep being our extra sets of eyes and ears. Keep asking your vet to scan dogs that come in without shot records. Keep educating those who believe that a stray dog has been abandoned by their unworthy family and needs a home. Teach them that those dogs likely have families out desperately looking for them.
And keep sharing pictures.
Pictures are the ONLY way (besides a microchip scan) if the dog you’ve seen or found is him. On the Sightings page on our website (http://www.finddigger.com/sightings.html), you’ll see just 70 of the voicemails we’ve received, plus the last 81 pictures we’ve been sent (and in many cases, we’ve received one of these pictures 10-20 times). It’s hard to know if any of the voicemails were actually Digger. But with the pictures, we can be sure...and unfortunately none of these are our boy.
We know your passion for this. We know it’s so hard to believe that the dog you’ve found isn’t him...because you want it to be him as badly as we do. Pictures are the only way we can be sure. And for those who are apprehensive about sharing a picture that may not be him in worries that you’re getting our hopes up, please don’t. We’d rather get 20 pictures of a dog that isn’t Digger, than not get THE picture that turns out to be him.
If you’re reading this and you have him...just take him to a local vet, tell them you found him, and they’ll take it from there. We just want our boy back.
If you have any information that can help, you can send it anonymously through the website’s Lost & Found page.
If you’re new to this, you can find the whole story, (almost) every technique / approach we’ve used to try to find him, all the specifics on Digger himself, and a downloadable flyer at www.finddigger.com.
If your dog is lost and you’d like some advice, reach out any time. We look forward to paying this forward for the rest of our lives.
For everyone else, please keep looking, keep sharing, keep sending us pictures, and keep praying. We still believe this story will have a happy ending…
#FindDigger
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