Wally’s Story-A Lost Dog Found After 5 Weeks
Thursday, December 10th, 2009Many of you may know, I donate my services to many Non-Profit Animal Rescue Groups all over the US.
In late October, I was contacted by Cindy from Rescue Our Furry Friends or ROFF.
Cindy said they desperately needed my help to find a 2 year old lab named Wally. Wally was an owner surrender who came to ROFF in an effort to find him his new forever home.
Here is Wally when he came to ROFF.
After only a couple days, Wally’s new foster mom took him outside and he slipped out of his harness and disappeared. After searching the area day and night for four days, Cindy and the ROFF volunteers were devastated when they could not find him.
In desperation they contacted another Animal Communicator. Apparently this other Communicator made contact with Wally but was unable to provide any details about where he was. Finding a lost animal is extremely difficult and takes a tremendous amount of energy.
Cindy kept searching the Internet until she found my website and contacted me.
Cindy explained that they had even hired a scent tracking dog but they got no new leads.
After reviewing his case and photo I felt I could get enough information to help Cindy and the ROFF volunteers find Wally.
Here is Wally’s story from Cindy:
We took Wally in from the local humane society as an owner surrender due to divorce. We knew immediately this poor boy was afraid of all humans and we knew it was going to be a task to get him to trust again. We only had him in rescue for two days when his foster mother called and said Wally was missing.
She took him outside and he slipped his collar and was gone! We searched day and night, we contacted all of the local vets in case someone brought in a hit by car, we posted fliers on every telephone pole, we contacted all the local radio stations begging the people in this neighborhood to please check around their porches and garages, then we set a humane live trap.
After a few days and no sightings I brought in a tracking dog. We were not successful with this. So at this point I was out of options, or so I thought. I got on line looking for a Pet communicator, it was my last resort. We found Karen Anderson who worked diligently to help us find our boy.
Wally was terrified of humans and trusted no one. Karen was giving us locations and land marks to look for, she was also letting us know he was still alive. We then got our first sighting on him in a field about 2 miles from where he went missing. We set the live trap and a game camera. The next morning I went out to check the trap and there was a yellow lab in it. I wasn’t getting too excited because I thought I trapped someones dog. Wally has a scar under his left eye. I walked up to the trap and saw a scar under the left eye…it was Wally!
Wally was missing for 5 1/2 weeks. I was desperate to get him out of the field with hunting season and the cold weather upon us. Other than testing positive for Lyme disease removing ticks, Wally was in pretty good shape. I am fostering Wally at home with my four other labs and Wally loves them all. I am working with my trainers to help Wally to learn to trust people and he is coming slowly out of his shell. The other night he crawled in bed me and two other labs to watch television. His photo is below.
All the details Karen gave us fit to a “T” including where we found him after 5 1/2 weeks. Thank you Karen so much for bringing our boy back to us.
Thank you,
Cindy McClellan
Rescue Our Furry Friends
Here you can see CeeJay on the left, Jayden in the middle and Wally on the right.
I love happy endings don’t you!