This is from the email I received:
I got a call from a lady in the Henson Cove are last Sat. morning. Her name was Jean Wilkes and she said she remembered I had shelties and have done some rescue. She had a sheltie that had come there 6 days before. She had looked out the window and tangled in some barbed wire by the pasture was a black dog, her husband went with her and it was a tri sheltie. She said they had to hold him down to cut the wire off him, it was about 30 ft. all wound up and he had got in it. She took him to a confined area there and started calling everyone and this included vets. sheltie rescue and neighbors. Then she put notes up at the vets, a day or two later, at the shelter and all the other places. No one knew a thing and she waited calling each place each day to check and see if a call had come in for a missing sheltie. In meantime she had a couple sick dogs and 2 very sick cats, (nothing catching, cancer) and had to put all her effort to making these animals comfortable and make more vet trips. She uses Cherokee Vet. Hospital and they had even been alerted about the sheltie. Then when all this went past and no one replied she asked if I would try to find him a home. I met her in Bethel at the church and she brought the sheltie to me. We sat and visited in a field for a while and he became very comfortable with me and we decided I would take him home. He was fine riding and after I had him a few hours I gave him a shampoo and trimmed all the burs out of his back hair, he was full of stuff. He rested with me on the deck and I let him loose in the yard as he had been confined for a week. We are fenced in. I started making calls and found a friend that's sheltie had died last fall from old age. This couple lived on Hemphill by the Baptist Church. They wanted to meet him and came on Sunday. They loved him and he done fine with them. So we decided he would go with them. They went to Tractor Supply and got everything a dog would need and he settled in and rested and had a good meal that nite. He seemed to be a little picky with his food too. Anyway, the man doted on him all evening Sun. & Mon. when the wife got home she walked him a couple hours, when she started in the back door Angus just startled and broke loose from her running down the yard and towards the field as fast as he could. That was on Monday late evening. They got all the neighbors as a search party and even crawled thru the underbrush with flashlights searching and have been searching each day since. So he was last seen in the Hemphill area by the Baptist Church on Monday late evening. Could be in that vicinity, there are campgrounds, homes and lots of farmland and mountains there. I still believe he can be found, oh, one of the girls from our dog club (WCDFA) Joetta does search and rescue and she even went over there. She lives in the Ironduff area. Thanks for taking time to listen. Joy
I got a call from a lady in the Henson Cove are last Sat. morning. Her name was Jean Wilkes and she said she remembered I had shelties and have done some rescue. She had a sheltie that had come there 6 days before. She had looked out the window and tangled in some barbed wire by the pasture was a black dog, her husband went with her and it was a tri sheltie. She said they had to hold him down to cut the wire off him, it was about 30 ft. all wound up and he had got in it. She took him to a confined area there and started calling everyone and this included vets. sheltie rescue and neighbors. Then she put notes up at the vets, a day or two later, at the shelter and all the other places. No one knew a thing and she waited calling each place each day to check and see if a call had come in for a missing sheltie. In meantime she had a couple sick dogs and 2 very sick cats, (nothing catching, cancer) and had to put all her effort to making these animals comfortable and make more vet trips. She uses Cherokee Vet. Hospital and they had even been alerted about the sheltie. Then when all this went past and no one replied she asked if I would try to find him a home. I met her in Bethel at the church and she brought the sheltie to me. We sat and visited in a field for a while and he became very comfortable with me and we decided I would take him home. He was fine riding and after I had him a few hours I gave him a shampoo and trimmed all the burs out of his back hair, he was full of stuff. He rested with me on the deck and I let him loose in the yard as he had been confined for a week. We are fenced in. I started making calls and found a friend that's sheltie had died last fall from old age. This couple lived on Hemphill by the Baptist Church. They wanted to meet him and came on Sunday. They loved him and he done fine with them. So we decided he would go with them. They went to Tractor Supply and got everything a dog would need and he settled in and rested and had a good meal that nite. He seemed to be a little picky with his food too. Anyway, the man doted on him all evening Sun. & Mon. when the wife got home she walked him a couple hours, when she started in the back door Angus just startled and broke loose from her running down the yard and towards the field as fast as he could. That was on Monday late evening. They got all the neighbors as a search party and even crawled thru the underbrush with flashlights searching and have been searching each day since. So he was last seen in the Hemphill area by the Baptist Church on Monday late evening. Could be in that vicinity, there are campgrounds, homes and lots of farmland and mountains there. I still believe he can be found, oh, one of the girls from our dog club (WCDFA) Joetta does search and rescue and she even went over there. She lives in the Ironduff area. Thanks for taking time to listen. Joy
