TWIGGY FOUND!
I went to the Humane Society in Hobart and they did indeed have Twiggy! We are now laying in bed together as I write this. I want to thank everyone who has helped me with this. It has meant so much to me. I do have some details from today but am exhausted from everything. I will post a longer, more detailed post this afternoon. Once again, Twiggy is found and seems to be very happy and content  |
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I started to  happy tears!!!! We are all so happy for you here!!!!!  |
 
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!  |
| What wonderful news.
I am SO relieved that you've been reunited. The story she could tell if only she could talk... |
WHOO-------HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Tasker's Mom wrote: :yay:
Add to that
Thank God! |
| Thank God, alot of prayers were being said for you both. |
| We're sobbing tears of joy here for you both. (Well, Hudson's actually supportively gnawing on the table leg, but the intent is there I'm sure!)
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!! What wonderful news... Tracie , Portage , and Hudson  |
 We are so happy! Can't wait to hear what you learned!!! |
| Oh I am so glad!!!! |
| Oh thank GOD!! I'm so happy you have her back!! |
| Happy bananananana man dance of joy!!! |
| YEAH!!!!! I was so hoping it was her! |
| I'm so glad you had a happy ending. Having had one of my akitas missing years ago, I know the emotional roller coaster you have been through. This is wonderful news. |
| That is amazing! I am so happy for you two! I can only imagine the butt wingle you saw when you picked Twiggy up!
Again, I am so happy for you!!! |
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Oh, what FANTASTIC news!! Can't wait to hear the rest of the story. Give that little girl a big hug from all of us unofficial aunts and uncles here!! |
| Our thoughts are with you in your happy time with Twiggy. I am so happy she is safe and sound. What a relief
Barb Lamb shaggylamb |
| Whew! |
wendy58 wrote: :banana: I started to happy tears!!!! We are all so happy for you here!!!!! traciels28 wrote: We're sobbing tears of joy here for you both. Amen!
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!! What wonderful news... Not a dry eye in the house! |
| what a relief!! i am sure you will stayed glued to her for a while |
| YAY |
loried wrote: YAY
you can say that again! |
| So first and foremost I want to once again thank everyone who helped me during this most difficult time from words of encouragement, to emails to shelters, to just keeping us in your thoughts in prayers. It has truly been wonderful.
I also want to say how I am 150% glad to have Twiggy home but let me tell you, getting her today was no easy task and it seemed, at times, I was almost being punished for the fact that someone broke into our fenced in backyard and stole our dog. For some back story, I work full time and also go to school part time. My husband is currently away from 3 weeks for work training in Missouri. I also spend a great deal of time with my parents who are both older. I am not on the internet a whole lot because of all this. My Mother really took the helm in emailing people and pretty much running the control center for Twiggy's disappearance. The night it happened, I made a police report. It was a Friday night and the officer left my house around 9:00pm. The next morning (Sat) I worked till 2:00pm. I made several calls to animal shelters on my lunch break including to the Lake County Indiana Animal Shelter. The lady I talked to, email me a list of 20+ vets to contact along with stating she would sent an email out to the surronding shelters and humane socieities with my contact information. 2:00pm on a Saturday, most shelters and vets I called were already closed for the weekend. I left msgs if they had voicemails set up but about 60% did not have it. Sunday, I emailed two local papers in an effort to see if they would write a story about the situtation. The story ran today. On Monday, My Mother got an email about a dog that fit Twiggy's description at a shelter the next town over but the dog was not microchipped (Twiggy was from Avid). So I was very leery as to whether or not it was her. The shelter opened at 10:00am this morning and I was there shortly after as it took forever for me to find. As I pulled up, there was an outside kennel area and there was my Twiggy Dog! She was jumping and shaking her lil bum and I was so happy to see her that I couldn't control my tears. I went inside to the office with pictures of Twiggy, her tags, and the collar that was cleanly cut by the box cutter. They had picked her up several miles from my house. After talking to a few people in the neighborhood and the fact that they left the cutter and the collar, we kinda made the assumption it was one of the teenagers in the neighborhood who saw her, thought she was cute and brought her home from the yard. When the parents said no, she was released. We've had some problems in the neighborhood with vandalism and garages and sheds broken into. Now I do want to say this, I know that these are hard times for shelters; they are over crowded and understaffed and the people who do work there and donate their time are wonderful people but I will have to admit, the people at this shelter were not overly nice to me in the least. They kept asking me why wasn't the dog microchipped and I kept saying she was and show them her blue tag. Finally, another lady went to go check and came back saying, "Oh, I found the microchip right away, don't know what the problem was." She was brought in on saturday, if they would have just doubled checked for her chip, I could have gotten her home much sooner! So then, they told me they were going to charge me to get her out because they didn't find the microchip right away on her. They also said they tried emailing me which, even after looking at my spam folder, I have not seen an email. I told them I rarely check my email and asked why they didn't try calling me by contacting the Merrillville police and they really had no answer. I had every intention of giving a donation anyway but now, it just felt like I was getting punished for the fact that my dog was stolen! There was really no sympathy for what my family and I had gone through these last 4 days or anything. I just wanted to get her home and calmed down cause she was very high strung and hyper. We've been laying in bed ever since. I am just so happy and grateful she is back and have been telling her all day she's not allowed of my eye sight ever again. I want to thank the people at the shelter for taking care of her, I just wished their people skills with me would have been a bit better. Obviously I wasn't just someone who let their dog out to roam the street if I went through so much trouble to do a police report, contact the papers, put up fliers, etc. All in all, I want to put alot of this behind us but also learn from it too. She is not going to be left outside unsupervised ever again, end of story. Which is sad because she loves the outside so much and as we were driving home, I saw all these dogs in their fenced in back yard with their dog houses looking so content and happy. That kind of simple time was taken from us and now I feel like I'm always going to be looking behind my back while on walks, at the dog park, anywhere and that's really sad. Once again, thanks so much to everyone and just happy she's home |
| A wonderful ending to a terrible nightmare!!!!
Give Twiggy a big.....  and a HUGE From Pearl, Cos and Heart...... Welcome home, Twiggy.. |
| So happy for you all!!! Love the name Twiggy!!!! I know you are happy and Twiggy must be so relieved!!! Was she tied up? We have had some cases her where a certain group of people have been going around untying dogs and letting them free..they actually think freeing a dog and letting them roam without food a good thing! It takes all kinds of people to make the world go around but too often people want to force their views on others. Just glad you had such a happy ending!!! |
| Welcome home Twiggy!!! |
lhall15 wrote: So happy for you all!!! Love the name Twiggy!!!! I know you are happy and Twiggy must be so relieved!!! Was she tied up? We have had some cases her where a certain group of people have been going around untying dogs and letting them free..they actually think freeing a dog and letting them roam without food a good thing! It takes all kinds of people to make the world go around but too often people want to force their views on others. Just glad you had such a happy ending!!!
Actually, that was a possibility also. I guess a few months back there was a string of incidents that were similiar in my town and also in Bloomington, Indiana. The article that the local paper ran on Twiggy also is online and some people are commenting on it that I got what I deserved because Twiggy was tied up outside. It hurts but I honestly don't believe I did anything wrong. She had tons of water, shelter, and wasn't out during the hottest time of the day or for very long; everything the ASPCA suggests. *shrugs* People will always pass judgement on others. |
| Been thinking about Twiggy all day,
SO GLAD SHE HOME NOW
Best wishes to you all xx |
| I have also been following this thread closely. It is such a miracle that Twiggy is home and the fact that little angel had not been wandering alone in the street, scared and confused, since someone took her to the shelter the first day she was taken.
I just want to add that, I totally understand your feeling of "if they could have checked for the chip more carefully, everyone could have saved four days of worries and tears" Perhaps you can look at it this way...it is Twiggy's fate and mission to have to stay there for four days. Something very meaningful had happened because of that. Be it someone got touched by Twiggy's sweetness during that four days and decided to rescue a sheepie... that means one more sheepie will find a home. Or perhaps someone was in a horrible state of mind and it was because of Twiggy, that person saw hope and love in life again... Or Cute Twiggy's arrival caused everyone in the shelter fussing around her, somehow it led to one dog who was supposed to go to the death chamber got postponded and that one day delay, gave it just enough time to find a home! I always think universe works in a very majestic way, a lot of time, the misfortune we experienced is actually a major piece of connection, very crucial for some miracles to happen through a chain of events...somewhere...for someone who desperately need it. It is what I always tell myself when I am upset or disappointed with something bad happened to me. Apologize for babbling, I hope I don't sound too much like I am heavily medicated...lol English is not my first language, please bear with me  |
| I am so glad you got Twiggy back!!
The evil ones are whoever went to that much work to steal her, and then let her LOOSE on the streets! She could have been hit by a car so easily. 
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eehigy wrote: So then, they told me they were going to charge me to get her out because they didn't find the microchip right away on her. They also said they tried emailing me which, even after looking at my spam folder, I have not seen an email. I told them I rarely check my email and asked why they didn't try calling me by contacting the Merrillville police and they really had no answer. I had every intention of giving a donation anyway but now, it just felt like I was getting punished for the fact that my dog was stolen! There was really no sympathy for what my family and I had gone through these last 4 days or anything. That's incredibly frustrating. I know you want to put it behind you, but I think you should contact the paper that ran the story and have them do a follow up story. Maybe it would assist in effecting change in the way the shelter handles these things. How did they even have your email address if they didn't know who her owner was? eehigy wrote: She is not going to be left outside unsupervised ever again, end of story. Which is sad because she loves the outside so much and as we were driving home, I saw all these dogs in their fenced in back yard with their dog houses looking so content and happy. That kind of simple time was taken from us and now I feel like I'm always going to be looking behind my back while on walks, at the dog park, anywhere and that's really sad.
What kind of fence do you have? I wonder if you could put a padlock on the gate? If it's a chain-link fence, that probably wouldn't help, but if it's a stockade fence it might. Just a thought. I'm just so glad you got her back. Give her lots of hugs and rubs from us too. |
| Very glad you got your Twiggy back!
A long time ago, we took in a dog who followed us home. Poor thing was a mess: filthy coat, coated with something oily. Obviously someone's pet: well mannered, well trained, did NOT like being left alone, so he slept with us--an issue since I was pregnant at the time. We were very poor but we spent some of our food budget on food for the poor boy and immediately tried contacting every shelter in the DC metropolitan area (where we lived at the time). Of course, it was the weekend and no one was open. All weekend. This was pre-email/internet days, so we had our guest for a few days. Turns out that the dog had 'escaped' while getting a medicated bath to treat a skin conditon (hence the oily coat) and had crossed the Potomac river, and traveled about 15 miles. Owner was suitably grateful and dog was obviously happy to be reunited with his family. Only downside is that at the same time, a neighbor's dog, 'our' dog's buddy went missing, too. It was assumed they were together but we only saw the one. We always hoped the other made it home safely but never knew. What we both remember from that experience is how very unhelpful shelters were: hard to contact, reluctant to take information, slow to pass information along. It's wonderful to be dedicated to animal welfare, but people are a lot more effective in this work if they actually have people skills, too. |
| yes!!!!!
SO GLAD TWIGGY IS HOME!! |
| Doing a happy happy dance for you and twiggy! |
| great news to hear. |
eehigy wrote: I also want to say how I am 150% glad to have Twiggy home HOLY WELCOME HOME! What a wonderful ending to a frightening experience. I kept putting myself in your shoes and shuddering at the thought of Patch being out there without me. Not finding the chip by the shelter after waving the magic wand over Twiggy is peculiar. Well, most importantly, you are both reunited and happy now - congrats on finding Twiggy! |
Quote: That's incredibly frustrating. I know you want to put it behind you, but I think you should contact the paper that ran the story and have them do a follow up story. Maybe it would assist in effecting change in the way the shelter handles these things. How did they even have your email address if they didn't know who her owner was?
What kind of fence do you have? I wonder if you could put a padlock on the gate? If it's a chain-link fence, that probably wouldn't help, but if it's a stockade fence it might. Just a thought. We just have a chain link fence. My husband is throwing around the idea of putting up a kennel in the backyard and then putting a padlock on it incase we ever do want to leave her out during short errands like food shopping or this fall when we put new hardwood floor down. I'm still uncomfortable about this but I do feel bad because she does love being outside so much. |
| Praise the Lord. Welcome home Twiggy. I so happy for you. |
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HOORAY!!!! Do u think u will ever know who cut her collar off? |
| We live in the middle of our town, on a street that gets lots of foot traffic. It is our very, very firm policy that the dogs are NEVER left outside if we are not at home and able to listen for them.
The biggest reason is that we are concerned that someone would decide to take on of ours home. Or to do some other mischief. Some people are just.....jerks. The other reason is that we think that it is possible that one day Sherman will realize that he could easily get over the fence with very little trouble. Sophie and Archie wouldn't have an easy time (although they can --and do--just walk over it when the snow is deep): Sophie is short and Archie is 9 and not quite as spry as he once was. Also, between the 3 of them, they figured out how to unlatch the gate with the first couple of latches we installed: had to look long and hard to find one that was OES proof--and we don't trust that someday one of them won't figure out how to get it open. So we make sure we are always around and able to get to them if need be. |
| A happy ending!!!
YEH! |
| I am so happy that Twiggy is home! |
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| I am so happy he is home and all is well. Maybe its becaue I grew up in NYC but I could never imagine leaving any of my dogs out when I wasn't watching and listening to them. |
| I am just now finding these posts on Twiggy. I am so glad that she is home and that it was a happy ending. I can only imagine how you must have felt while she was gone.
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kerry wrote: I am so happy he is home and all is well. Maybe its becaue I grew up in NYC but I could never imagine leaving any of my dogs out when I wasn't watching and listening to them.
Yeah, I know I'm basically hysterical too. But "paranoia" generally has to be learned, Kerry. Some times the hard way
My brother and I grew up in Norway and I remember taking the bus downtown with my six year old brother and going shopping on my own when I was eight years old. Know a lot of 8 year olds who are allowed to do that in this day and age? 
I used to take my dogs with me when I run errrands and leave them in my locked car (when it's cool) and I'm rapidly reaching a point where I'm even afraid to do that. When friends and I stop to eat on the way home from a trial, we ask to be seated where we can see our vehicles out the window. Times are changing. Quickly it sometimes seems. But this story, at least, has a happy ending
So happy she's home!!!
Kristine |
Mad Dog wrote: My brother and I grew up in Norway and I remember taking the bus downtown with my six year old brother and going shopping on my own when I was eight years old. Know a lot of 8 year olds who are allowed to do that in this day and age? I used to take my dogs with me when I run errrands and leave them in my locked car (when it's cool) and I'm rapidly reaching a point where I'm even afraid to do that. When friends and I stop to eat on the way home from a trial, we ask to be seated where we can see our vehicles out the window. Times are changing. Quickly it sometimes seems. But this story, at least, has a happy ending So happy she's home!!! Kristine Up until I was 5 I lived in a place outside of London called Leytonstone, I remember my mother giving me a few pounds and a grocery list and sending me down the street for a few groceries. I was only 5. Never in this day and age. But in England parents would leave their children outside in prams while they shopped. That's back in the day gosh makes me feel old. I'm not that old for heaven sakes. I dont like leaving my dogs in the car either, unless I can see them. |
| Leytonstone we know there, Lived in Chingford for a while
My home town growing up was Harlow Essex, From the age of around 7 We would always go to the shop with the dog, she would always be off the lead , well behaved, very protective sable and white Collie. Couldnt trust Ollie to do the same,god knows where they would end up
The pram left outside of the Co op, my friends mum left the baby there
The dad had come home asked where's baby? She had been home over an hour
Both ran to the shop,he still there,not a bother on him sleeping soundly 
She always said to me and my friend "well i had'nt had him that long,i just forgot" |
| Prayers have been answered. Thank God! |
| I'm so happy for you and Twiggy |
| YEA, TWIGGY!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited she's home!!!!!!!!! |
| So glad everything worked out well, I will admit I was thinking the worse since she was on a lead and in a fenced yard. I too live in a quiet neighborhood that is growing too quickly. I have often thought of leaving Chauncey in the yard for a 20 min trip to the store but decided to put him in. I will never again have a second thought. Our gates do have a lock, they are now locked for the 1st time and given they are a button style lock with a key, I wouldn't trust them.
You did everything you could. Your Twiggy was secured on your property and alone for just a short period of time. The animal shelter could better spend it's time on finding the thief. |
| I am so glad that Twiggy is home, safe and sound! Looks like you have some crazy folks in your area. Knowing that, I would not be able to leave Twiggy out again unsupervised, as much as she loves the outdoors. JMHO.
Laurie and Oscar |
| So it seems we aren't out of the woods yet.
Got her back on Tuesday. Tuesday after everything and everyone, myself included, calmed down, I decided to brush her out. Well in doing so, I found a small closed in cut on her neck right where her old collar used to lay. I'm guessing it was from the box cutter they used on her. I took her to the Vet the next day and he checked it out, gave us some antibotics and said it looked like it would heal fine. I was pretty upset that either the shelter didn't check her out well enough when she was brought in or that they did see this and didn't notify me of it when I picked her up. Well now, this morning, she is showing signs of kennel cough even though she was vaccinated. I can only guess from the humane shelter she was at is where she got it. I called the Vet and said if she's still eating, isn't lethargic but just coughing there's really no reason to bring her in; it will just run it's course and she'll be fine in a few days. It's just a pain and sounds so much worse then what it is. I've checked some old posts concerning kennel cough and did some web searches. She is bring up some clear plepm (sp?) and saliva which is good right? It means it's not stuck in her lungs. I'll be sooooo happy when she's just back being a normal, healthy, velcro sheepie. |
| Poor girl. She's had a really hard few days.
Hopefully she'll be better within another week or 10 days.  |
| ERIN, GET HER TO YOUR VET ASAP!!!!
This may not be kennel cough but the doggie flu that is making it's ways around the HS's and boarding kennels again....... it can be deadly. Dogs start off with Kennel cough symptoms and it then goes into their lungs and can kill. It is very important that at the onset of the first cough you detect...do NOT wait and think it will pass. Get them on the antibiotics ASAP. The secondary infection can settle into the lungs and chest within 2-3 days and your dog will have to be hooked up to IV's. If treatment is done early....this will pass ......if not, your dog could die. It is a bad virus! |
| I'm so glad to hear that you found her!!
Hope she is feeling better soon. |
| just back from a business trip, and I'm so glad to read that Twiggy is home!!! |
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