Author: Bev

Guinness, the missing Corgi, has been caught and reunited with his owners!!!

We hadn’t had any Guinness sightings since we first saw him last Friday night.  Then, yesterday my mother-in-law was at our place and spotted him in our backyard.  We moved the live trap to the backyard and baited it with tripe (mmm) last night and were rewarded with a little Corgi guy in it this morning!  I was so excited at 6AM upon spotting him in the trap.

We carried him inside the live trap into the basement before attempting to get him out.  Weren’t taking any chances.  He was actually a pretty calm little guy.  In surprisingly good health after being on his own for almost two weeks.  He went happily into a Dane crate and scarfed up a bowl of his food.  Gave him a can of tripe a couple hours later, which he quickly gobbled up.  Then he seemed pretty content to curl up with his owner’s shirt and wait in the crate.

Called his owners at 6:30 and they were on the road by 7ish, here by a little after noon.  Not a lot of dry eyes during the reunion.  🙂

Some images from this morning:

A few additional images

We had a sad situation here in my area.  A family traveling through on the interstate were in a car accident (see Newton Daily News article) a week ago today.  They were traveling with their two Corgis.  One was killed in the accident 🙁 and the other escaped in the confusion.

This was a week ago today and the dog has remained missing (second Newton Daily News article).  There haven’t been any reliable sightings of the dog.

Until tonight.  We spotted him in our yard a couple of hours ago!  We live right off the interstate where the accident happened and don’t have any Corgis in our area, so fairly positive that we saw the dog in question.

I talked to his owners on the phone and needless to say, they are very excited.  Unfortunately, the dog is super shy and has now been loose for an entire week…making him even more skittish.  He took off when I attempted to call him and I didn’t pursue for fear of driving him out of the area.

The owners are working with someone here in the Midwest that specializes and tracking and catching dogs in these type of situations.  I spent some time on the phone with this person, getting tips of what we could do to help.

My initial thought was to put out a lot of food, to keep him here.  However, she cautioned that we want to keep him hungry, so not to put out too much.  Did some cooked hamburger and spread the juice out over the grass and tree leaves, to make the area smell stronger.  We also set a live trap, although it’s doubtful he can be caught in one.

Some Corgi friends are coming out to our acreage tomorrow with one of their Corgis – who is in season.   We’re going to put her on a long line and walk her around the area, hoping she might draw him out.

Sounds like the owners are driving back (they’re several hours away in IL) here tomorrow.

Please cross your fingers that this boy can be reunited with his family very soon!!

Update: Check out our happy ending!