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Here is the latest update … cross post wherever you can please:
quote :Dear Friends & Dog Lovers,Firstly please forgive me for the en mass email.
Time is always at a premium, and so by emailing everyone together it means I can spend more time searching for Jacob elsewhere.
Many of you already know about Jacob, our much loved Bracco Italiano, who sadly has been missing from the Saffron Walden Essex area since January 21st 2009, therefore today marking him being missing for some 16 weeks.
For those of you who do not know about Jacob, quite simply, he is a much loved family pet, who went off after deer one morning on a familiar walk to him, and hasn’t really been spotted ever since.
We have had a few vague sightings, or ‘Jacobesque’ lookalikes, but nothing firm leading to his homecoming. Something we desperately want, and hence us contacting you today to advise that yes, he is still very much missing.
I do get a lot of rescue centres phoning me through the week to see if he is home, and many individuals and companies are also kind enough to pick up the phone or email asking after him.
Many of you have added Jacob’s appeal to your catalogues, websites, and mass emailed your customer lists and friends and family, all of which we are eternally grateful for.
Your kindness in thinking of Jacob and trying to help is what spurs us on in the plight to keep his name very much in the spotlight.
We have tried the media circles without much help, it seems a ‘dog lost’ story is one which doesn’t raise much media interest.
There needs to be an ‘angle’ to it. What that angle is I will never know, but we cannot do more than we have already done I don’t think, and with, or without the media on side, we battle on.
All we would like to ask today is that you please continue to pass the word to your friends, your customers, maybe even add him to any literature for shows or events, or put up his poster (attached) wherever you can – be that your local shop, your vets, your place of work.
Any extra poster placements and emails are what could bring him home.
Just anything you can do to help us spread the word.
I have to remember that Jacob could be anywhere out there, maybe even with a new, un-suspecting owner.
As I said before, we all pass on the “email 10 friends” emails, and those horrible chain letter emails, so if we could all do this for Jacob, as an utterly worthwhile cause I hope you will agree, it would be absolutely fantastic, and the word would hopefully continue to spread rapidly.
We cannot let our lovely boy just disappear without a fight, and be forgotten he was ever a huge part much loved part of our lives.
As heartbreaking as it is as time goes by, we just have to keep the campaign moving, with an air of positivity, hoping that one day someone, somewhere will have information which will hopefully lead him home to us.
Thank YOU all for any help you can offer, your generosity, and time given is very much appreciated.
Shelley & Jon Haggerwood
BLOG: http://missingbraccojacob.blogspot.com/MISSING
JACOB
BRACCO ITALIANO MALE
MISSING SINCE 21/01/2009
MISSING FROM : SAFFRON WALDEN, ESSEX CB11
WHITE/ORANGE STANDS 27” AT SHOULDER
MICROCHIPPED
NO LONGER WEARING COLLAR/TAGS
PLEASE LOOK OUT FOR HIM IN YOUR AREA
HAVE YOU SEEN HIM WITH SOMEONE
OR KNOW OF ANY INFORMATION
£1000 REWARD FOR HIS SAFE RETURN
CALL 07828 671550
Or DOGLOST ON 0844 800 3220 quoting 16735
I have received the following – please crosspost and forward on where you can …
quote :Dear Friends,We have reached 6 months without our gorgeous boy……
It’s been a while since I got in touch, but so much has been going on lately.
Today I feel is a good day to remind you all about Jacob STILL being missing.We have endured, as some of you will know, a 2 month search over at Welwyn Garden City after a woman supposedly saw Jacob with a man she vaguely knew, walking him round Stanborough Lakes.
He had apparently acquired this dog from Gypsies, the lady was very convincing indeed.
Something about this lady didn’t quite fit, but keeping the saying “keep your enemies closer” in mind, we ‘befriended’ her in the hope that something would come it, and she may well have led us to our dog.
After a whole lot of time and effort, too many weekends, days and nights travelling a 2 hr round trip to search, built up purely on hope, we had a call from the police stating that the lady (I use that term very loosely) had been arrested on serious fraud charges.
We were in her sights, being ‘groomed’ for fraud.
We went to her sentencing a few weeks back whereby she was jailed for 4.5 years, (sentence was much more but stupidly, each runs con-currently nowdays) she having duped £100,000 from elderly and sick cancer patients. She herself purporting she was terminally ill with the same disease.
Another huge blow for our search for Jacob.Our last insult was knowledge that recently a lost pedigree dog was found prior to being ready for being neutered at a reputed dogs home, it had been in the care of this large organisation for some 7 days and had gone through the hands of many.Thankfully it was re-scanned by the vet there before the op and a chip found for it’s owner.
This not unusual I know, it can happen, but this dog had been in the care of the shelter for a week, during which time Doglost volunteers (www.doglost.co.uk) had been there at their fundraising weekend, displaying the missing dogs posters loud and clear.
Staff even checked the dogs listed during the day.
This same dog was in their care all the time.
This really worried us as you can imagine –
Could Jacob have gone through a rescue and rehome procedure, maybe his chip isn’t scanning ?
Could he be listed as a cross breed/hound/pointer mix perhaps ???PLEASE, PLEASE IF YOU ARE A RESCUE ORGANISATION, CAN YOU CHECK YOUR REHOME RECORDS TO ENSURE A CROSS-BREED WITH JACOB’S COLOURING, BUILD, OR LIKENESS HASN’T GONE THROUGH YOUR REHOME PROCEDURE
I know this is probably exceptional circumstances, and I am in no way knocking the fabulous work the rescues do, most of them on a tight budget, I am just very frustrated to read and have phone calls about this sort of thing happening and wanted to ask for help.
I hope you understand this from our point of view, knowing you would, put in our position, do the very same, we simply have to react by doing something pro-active.Thank You so much for reading this far !
Thank You even more for taking time to check your records, or dogs currently in your care.We will find our lovely boy, we just have to.
We cannot and will not rest until we know what became of him.
He was part of our lives for 3 years, and we owe him this search to bring him home againTHANK YOU
Jon & Shelley
http://missingbraccojacob…blogspot.com
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