A dog owner was joyfully reunited with her Labrador this week after it went missing for nearly a fortnight.
Julie Maxwell feared the worst when her seven year old black Lab vanished from her back garden in Gesnaire, Le Petit Val on July 23rd and was then not seen for 13 days.
Searches were organised and posters put in shop windows in a desperate bid to get the animal back.
With no sightings and no rainfall, leaving Mrs Maxwell to fear that if Cassie was injured, dehydration would have made her condition worse.
Mrs Maxwell told how Cassie, a seven-year-old gun dog, seemed to vanish into thin air."I was out in the garden watering plants and went to call her for a walk and she was gone," said Mrs Maxwell. "It was completely out of character for her to disappear."
With day after day of hot weather and no sightings, despite the number people who generously mobilised to try to bring her back, Mrs Maxwell's hope waned.
Then, last Monday, at 7.40am she got a phone call from a resident in Alex Court. 'They said had heard yelping and howling in the early hours of the morning coming from the direction of the Valley Gardens, and they wondered if it was Cassie." Mrs Maxwell and her daughter Nicola set off to investigate. "She appeared from out of the undergrowth as if nothing had happened. We couldn't believe it. Her nose was wet and she didn't appear to have lost weight, so she must have found water somewhere."
She added: "Words can't describe how it felt to see her again- I'm just thrilled to have her back. I want to thank everyone who offered their help - I can't think of anywhere else where a missing dog gets that sort of reaction from the public."
The Guernsey Bereavement Service has made three visits to Alderney over the past few months and would like to continue to help you. We are visiting the island again on
Tuesday, 23rd February 2024 and would invite anyone who feels they would like Bereavement Counselling to telephone the Bereavement Service Office on 257778 to make a time to meet one of our counsellors.
The Guernsey Bereavement Service has made three visits to Alderney over the past few months and would like to continue to help you. We are visiting the island again on
Tuesday, 23rd February 2024 and would invite anyone who feels they would like Bereavement Counselling to telephone the Bereavement Service Office on 257778 to make a time to meet one of our counsellors. 