Help - Skippy is lost!!!!

And just in case any of you haven't visited the FidoFinder link, I offered to post a couple of pics of Skippy here for dds580:





What a cute dog!

Sorry your pup is still missing. I just read this thread...

Our dog got away (while we were out of town at a funeral as well) and someone picked her up several miles from our place, and took her to yet another neighborhood. We followed her trail from a freaky bunch of phone calls we got based on posters all over Brooklyn.

Posting pictures on the street really helps - and post far and wide. It helps that he is an unusual breed - is he chipped? Then if someone takes him to the vet...
Listing a reward on street posters is often not recommended - it's thought to cause people to call you that don't have your dog.

Sometimes people get their dog back after months, so it IS possible. Put pictures at Prospect Park entrances as well as the BBG since so many dog owners go there.

I feel for you - it was really one of the worst things that ever happened to me.

Did you check BARC in Williamsburg? Alot of people drop off found dogs there.

Good Luck!

Someone posted a found dog poster in one of the shops on park place just off flatbush. I can't remember if it was the optician, barber shop, or Little Miss Muffin. They described a golden dog, I think it was a lab. There was a picture, and I also can't remember what the dog looked like but I suppose it is possible that they could confuse your dog for a lab. Don't want to get your hopes up, but it might be worth a look.

Since you've been to Animal Control, I imagine you've looked at their site as well. Here's the link, just in case and for anyone else that loses a pet or wants to adopt. You can register for an emailed breed report if you are looking for a particular kind of dog.

Of course hardly anybody is going to know that name of that exotic dog...

It tore us up to visit the pound, and we ended up fostering a big nutty dog while we looked for ours, and after.

http://www.nycacc.org/site/c.ikLTJ9MUKtH/b.684473/k.B3D5/Lost__Found_Search.htm

www.petfinder.com is also great - you give them your zip and they show you dogs within a desired radius.

We just went throught a disturbing experience with skippy's search.
Last week, when posting flyers my husband talked to someone that he tought was a dog walker - he had two dogs with him. The guy took a flyer and promised to keep an eye on the look-out for him.
Sunday afternoon, we got a call from someone very pleased to inform us that he had found skippy and asking us to come and get him, luckily my other half was out on his daily run posting flyers and was able to get to the address given quickly.
He found two teenagers with waiting for him with a korean Jindo but much younger that skippy, insisting that that was our dog, because he responded to skippy, one of them slip and said that they foudn the dog in flatbush few days ago. Probing for more info about this dog, the kids did ask him to call the guy who found it, he called him and the guys was insisiting that that wa our dog, he insisted on talking to him in person and ralized that he had spoken to him recently. He was very childish insisting that it was our dog too - kind of expecting the reward $$$.

The guy refused to call 311 to report the dog 'found' and left taking him to his Apt. the only thing David could so was to ask him no to put the dog on the street.
David, my husband, was upset because he got the feeling someone was just trying to get ride of the dog - jindos are high maintenance dogs but very loving too.

Subject: Skippy

As the owner of a ballsy JRT I've been monitoring this thread hoping that each new post will mean Skippy is home. You, and Skip, are in our thoughts. Good luck. Also, there are people out there who steal dogs and respond to flyers/reward notices. NEVER leave your dog tied up outside a store if you're going to be out of sight for more than 30 seconds. It happens. I think NY Press had an article about it a couple years ago. Best of luck.

Subject: Re: Skippy

ANFIELD wrote: NEVER leave your dog tied up outside a store if you're going to be out of sight for more than 30 seconds. It happens. I think NY Press had an article about it a couple years ago. Best of luck.

You also have to contend with the possibility of the dog getting run over. I was in Park Slope this weekend and came across a dog tied to a parking meter that was lying on the sidewalk and unaware (as was the minivan driver) that he was about to be run over by a car trying to park. Thankfully we were able to stop the driver in time... but keep an eye out people.

No good news to report yet, I know that's not what you want to hear but that is the case.
Do you know what is driving me crazier?

There are also nice people that report to the animal care & control of NYC, when they find pets and for some reason they kept the animals at their home. I imagine that is better in a sense because pets must be better off in a house than a shelter, but they never post pictures of those pets, and the description they post is only based on their judgement and they are dogs that the breed is not too well known or the person's perception of the breed also affects the report.

What upsepts me is that David was told that in most of those cases the ones housing the pet end up adopting it. So Skippy might have been reported found but because it might have reportted under a different breed, we might never know.

I am still waiting for a response from NYCACC on this question.
I know that having a system that cares for pets is good but I can see that there is room for improvement and I defenitively have to get involve to better the system. Any additional siggestions?

Thanks

lulu's momma wrote:
I hope you don't think I think I'm lame for throwing it out there...

no, you rule!

Still not good news to report.
Since I noticed that many of you have gotten to care about skippy, I will tell you about skippy and what made him so special to us unless there is news to report.

Skipy was born somewhere in NJ. A friend of skippy parents owner adopted him and one of his sister as a present to his retired parents, he was living at the time with them. Probably about the same time he got a job in NYC, and was planning to move here. The parents not too happy about having the responsibility of two very active pups gave him an ultimatum:
IF you go, the dogs go with you. The young man was determined to go but he could not take the dogs with him, so he decided to look for good houses for the pups. Jindos being so sensitive were not easy to place so he decided to interview, meet the best candidates and let the pups choose their owners.
David was one of the last ones to make it to Bryant Park that day, the two pups were still there because they were very nervous and unhappy with everybody up to that point. But when David was allowed to hold ‘nemo’ for the first time, he did not cry while being held by a stranger.
So after, few moments, and the adoption fee taken care of, ‘nemo’ left with David on his way to Brooklyn. He was given the name nemo because a small part of his right ear is missing, we saw the relationship - smaller ear, smaller fin, so we keep calling him nemo, but he would ignore us. Tired of being ignore by him we read him a list of our favorite names, he responded to skippy and so he became Skippy, the dog formely know as nemo.

I didn't want my other post to bump this down further. Sorry about that.

Dang... every time this thread gets bumped I keep *hoping* it means Skippy's been found.

let's just make it a sticky for now... skippy, come home already!!!!

I think about this almost every day because I have your sign posted outside my shop....Skippy, come home! I'm always looking for him in the neighborhood. Just know we are all keeping an eye out for him.