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I know its not a horse but I don't care i'm desperate.

Can I ask anyone in the Hampshire postcode areas of PO14, 15 and 16 to keep an eye out for my missing bullmastiff bitch. She went missing on Sat evening from the woods at the top of iron mill lane and could be just about anywhere.

She is very friendly and is microchipped so i'm hoping she will be found. She is wearing a tan leather collar and a black half chain collar.

If anyone sees her could they PM me and if they find her take her to a place of safety that will scan her chip.

Many thanks
 

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LHS, pm me if you'd prefer but let me know of the area (v local) you were in when you lost her. I'll take Harley there for some walks for a while just in case I can spot her.

Prob won't help, but I'm willing to try!
 

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Not in your area so can't help unfortunately but fingers crossed you find him.

You have probably already done this but when my sisters doe went missing we contacted:

Dog Warden
Local RSPCA
All local kennels
Put posters up in local shops, on lamp posts, on trees in area he went missing, at local schools (kids loved being asked to look out for him)
Police station
Dogs home
Local Radio
Local paper
and even a national paper ran his story

Sorry if I;m stating the obvious.

Good luck
 

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also put a poster up at your vets and could also be worth setting this up on FB as well - that gets wider coverage.

I know that rescues have been put up but think it could be worth contacting your local rescues to ask their advice on other places your dog could end up - i.e pounds etc. Rescue Remedies is in Gatwick and know all the UK pounds. Worth another call

Fingers crossed you get your girl back safe and sound very shortly. I know you muist be really worried.
 

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Thanks everyone. There's no sign of her so far :(

Ok so here'e what we've done,
She is on Doglost
She has a facebook page
I have rung four council dog wardens that border the area we are in.
She is on Wave 105 webbie
She is heavily postered
I have rung all the local dog rescue'e
vets
Poster dropped the Neighbours
Google satalighted the area and contacted people near by
Called the microchip people
Called the insurance people
local farrier
local dog walkers
golf club
I've been out everyday with and without my own dog, with a big bouncy borrowed dog and nothing.
 

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Keep up the pressure and effectively "make" you dog too hot to keep. Sorry to ask but was she spayed? if she wasn't that could you ask your police the locations of where they know people are who like to breed dangerous dogs (not saying your dog is dangerous, but thinking of an unsuitable cross). If your police could say that they have problems in certain areas, then I would post heavily there. You might need an incentive as well

If you have made up a poster would you be allowed to put it on the board? I am in Surrey and would very happily stick your poster up in local tackshops and my vets?

We lost staffie boy pup for a very scary 5 hours when he took off after a pheasant. Thankfully he turned up at the dog wardens having been handed in by a local farmer - had been in with sheep - but was being herded by the sheep and not doing anything which probably saved his life.
 

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Yes she is spade and to me its obvious so hopefully so to others with less honerable intentions. She's not dangerous in anyway unless you want death by licking or perhaps squashing.

Everybody has been fantastic allowing us to poster except JD News in Highlands Road who are clearly very mean spirited.
 

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Twitter? It worked for Sheridan Smith recently! I am friends with a DJ at wave 105 I will send him a message on twitter and ask him to retweet it to everyone in the area, then ask them to do the same.

Let me know if you want me to do that for you.

Hope she is found soon.

x
 

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Bumpity bump bump bump!

Can anyone else help here?

We are a big community when lots of people work together they can really do amazing things.

Can anyone help this HHO'er out?

Does anyone have friends on FB that live in this area that they can message?
Does anyone have any friends on twitter in this area that they can tweet?

Any more ideas for this poor lady?
Hope you find her soon.
x
 

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I know its not a horse but I don't care i'm desperate.

Can I ask anyone in the Hampshire postcode areas of PO14, 15 and 16 to keep an eye out for my missing bullmastiff bitch. She went missing on Sat evening from the woods at the top of iron mill lane and could be just about anywhere.

She is very friendly and is microchipped so i'm hoping she will be found. She is wearing a tan leather collar and a black half chain collar.

If anyone sees her could they PM me and if they find her take her to a place of safety that will scan her chip.

Many thanks

You stand a good chance of finding her with a collar and a microchip. Thank goodness for her you are a sensible owner. Have you contacted pet search http://www.ukpetsearch.freeuk.com/ It is most annoying as everytime I try to open the box on the right of the webpage i get 'homestead' which is advertising stuff. Sorry.


Try these people too: http://www.doglost.co.uk/?Epupz and good luck. Just realised your advert is already on here.
 
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You stand a good chance of finding her with a collar and a microchip. Thank goodness for her you are a sensible owner. Have you contacted pet search http://www.ukpetsearch.freeuk.com/ It is most annoying as everytime I try to open the box on the right of the webpage i get 'homestead' which is advertising stuff. Sorry.


Try these people too: http://www.doglost.co.uk/?Epupz and good luck. Just realised your advert is already on here.


Hi thanks for the link but a lady at the Southampton number said they weren't operating any longer.
 

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Keep phoning the dog homes. My hubby left a gate open and 2 of my jacks went walkies. We phoned 2 local councils as we live on a border, both said phone the other one. The next morning someone knocked on the door to say they had found them and phoned up the dog warden who had taken them to the kennels outside our area, who I had phoned the night before and said they didn't have them. I went to collect them and the woman said again that she didn't have them so I got the dog warden on the phone and suddenly the woman 'found the paperwork'. She then said that she'd had trouble finding the microchip on one of them and when asked why the hell I was not contacted (not as politely as that) I was told that as they had been reported missing to petlog there was no need to ring me. Don't give up hope, we were told that most dogs are missing for at least a week.
 

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The local dog warden at Fareham has been lovely, she said in her 10 years of doing the job only 1 dog has not been found, a jack russell, who they had to say got stuck down a hole. Bo is too big thankfully to get stuck but as times goes on it gets more worrying.

I'm really pleased you got yours back. I do ring the rescues so hopefully they'll do their job. Searching has become all consuming and its really hard to devote so much time to it when you have other things to do but we're doing whatever it takes.
 

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Be complete pain in the butt to everyone everyday, vets, dog wardens, rehoming centres the lot. Hopefully she's been found and being cared for by someone from outside the area. Our local council uses a dogs home nearly 40 miles away who I would never thought of ringing. Fingers crossed for you as I know the terrible time your going through.
 

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Try contacting the weekly dog papers Dog World and Our Dogs. They will I am sure be happy to run an article for you. I agree about visiting kennels, you would be amazed how many people who run these don't actually recognise half the breeds. Keeping fingers crossed she turns up soon.
 

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Be complete pain in the butt to everyone everyday, vets, dog wardens, rehoming centres the lot. Hopefully she's been found and being cared for by someone from outside the area. Our local council uses a dogs home nearly 40 miles away who I would never thought of ringing. Fingers crossed for you as I know the terrible time your going through.

Completely agree. My MIL dog went missing after being chased by a group of greyhounds, she was found three days later. I was ringing the dog warden at least twice a day & even tried to bribe the dog warden to go and check a potential sighting of her. I was a pain in the backside - there are times you have to be! We put posters up within a 8 mile radius & she was eventually found because of the posters by a paper boy on his round at 7 in the morning.

Fingers & everything crossed for you, hope you find her soon & don't give up. x
 

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Have you notified the police? I didn't see that you had. I know it is likely they will not do a lot but I would at least inform them this type of dog is lost just in case someone known to police happens to suddenly be in possession of such a dog.

We found two dogs last xmas and rang the police to see if anyone had reported lost dogs matching the description. They said not (although later we found out they had actually been reported!), we then rang dogs trust and as we called them they'd just got off the phone to the owners who had contacted them on the off chance they'd picked them up. The Dogs trust were great and got back to the owners and we delivered the dogs back. They turned out to be just from the next village about had been wandering form about 3am in the morning (in the snow) til we found them at about 5pm!

Just keep trying - notify the larger charities like the dogs trust as they can then pass info between each centre. However, I do feel if they'd found them by now they'd have checked her for a chip.

Don't give up hope just keep the profile up and, as someone else said make her too 'hot' to handle!
 

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No nothing, spent yes morning out about 7am ish and another 3 hrs out yesterday afternoon with Bo's sister but nothing. Am starting to wonder if someone's taken her and not coming forward as there's no reason or hazard as to why she's not coming home. Either that or she's gone much further afield than originally thought.

Am never gonna give up though.
 

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No nothing, spent yes morning out about 7am ish and another 3 hrs out yesterday afternoon with Bo's sister but nothing. Am starting to wonder if someone's taken her and not coming forward as there's no reason or hazard as to why she's not coming home. Either that or she's gone much further afield than originally thought.

Am never gonna give up though.

I am thinking of you and hoping you get reunited soon. Can you run off loads of posters (on the sly at work maybe)?
 

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Thankyou. Yes posters are everywhere we can think of so its well publicised that she's missing. She's on loads of websites aswell.
 

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Fingers crossed you are soon reunited with your dog. I look forward to your "I'VE FOUND MY DOG!!!!" post (because I know there will be one soon)

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This is really sad, I have a bullmastiff and would be lost without him.

Can you post a link to the facebook group, I will join and encourage others to do the same, even though I'm not in your area every little could help

I really hope you find her soon x


ETS Should have looked harder

here is the link

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Missing-Bo-the-bullmastiff/103670716363732?v=wall&ref=ts



Poor Bo, that photo doesn't do her justice, she's a lot prettier in RL. She was a rescued breeding bitch so her loss makes it all the more sad for me, she was just starting to flourish and this happens. We are following up a lead but as before it may not come to anything.
 
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