CAPTAIN GOES MISSING! 22 JULY 2006

Violetta Argueta, President of Cairn Rescue USA, sends out this message: Jim & Bonny Weinheimer from Yorkville, Illinois adopted eight-year-old Captain, a wheat/blond puppymill survivor, from Cairn Rescue USA a month ago. Today, someone accidentally left their fence gate open and Captain & his 12-year-old Cairn sister Bonny escaped. Bonny was found because she would not let anyone touch her, but Captain is missing and it is believed that someone on a car heading South on Route 47 in Yorkville may have taken him. No further info is available on the car. Captain has a problem with his front & back legs from being caged for eight years in a puppymill. His front legs are misshapen and flat right behind his paws from not being used when he was confined and he is very fragile & dear, and starved for love and likely to let anyone pick him up. He was not wearing ID tags. Pictures of Captain can be seen HERE. Please CROSSPOST AND TAKE A LOOK AROUND SHELTERS IN ILLINOIS IF YOU LIVE THERE or if you go to pull any dogs there. If you find Captain, please let us know HERE. A Reward is being offered for Captain's safe return. Thank you! On 24 July, Shell writes: I just got off the phone with Bonny Weinheimer who is once again hysterical, but this time in a wonderful way. CAPPY WAS RETURNED. As it turns out, the couple who picked him up on Route 47 lives in Montgomery (another small town about 20 minutes from Yorkville). They saw one of the posters and came this morning to return him. Jim, Bonny's husband, was out driving from shelter to shelter dropping off posters and, needless to say, he was beside himself when he found out Cappy was home. Bonny & I had a long talk about tags & harnesses & collars, etc. I think I can say with absolute certainty that she learned a valuable lesson and ,thankfully, . . . didn't have to pay as high a price as she might have. And . . . their fence is being installed this Thursday. Nice way to start the week.

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