Missing Greyhound - SO40 Southampton Area

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Urgent plea to anyone living/working in the SO40 (UK) District of Southampton.

Meg is missing. She is microchipped to Greyhound Gap and the name on her chip details is MAGIC. She is a 4 year old black and white greyhound girl and is spayed.

She went missing around 5pm on Friday 24th October in the Ashurst area of the New Forest (UK) on a walk.

Meg is wearing a pink collar material martingale, red muzzle and is tagged.

Please contact Lisa at Greyhound Gap on 01782 544728 or 07917422489.

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If anyone can go and help please please do.

The search has yielded no signs of Meg. If you can assist the search team tomorrow PLEASE PLEASE contact one of the above numbers for instructions and directions.
Meg is muzzled and conditions at nightfall are getting colder day by day.

I will update this post with any further information I get. If Meg has not been found by Friday then a huge search with as many people as possible is being organised for her at the weekend.

For those who are too far away to help with the search, please keep Meg in your thoughts and prayers, lots of good vibes are needed!
 
I've seen her details on doglost.....too far to help but I do hope your search brings her home safe and well. It's such a worry when they are muzzled but with any luck her hunger will flush her out sooner rather than later
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Poor little Meg
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That is my nightmare with my greyhound, they are so quick that your attention is elsewhere for seconds and they are gone
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RIP Meg
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I have a greyhound too, ex-track dog (well, she's a girl actually) and she can disappear at the drop of a hat. We thought we were safe letting her off the lead on our own land of 11 acres, but no, she escaped somehow but did come back - eventually, after much frantic searching and calling. We now keep her on her lead as we can't risk it, but it's such a shame that we daren't let her run about. Which is better - run about and risk it, or be safe -I can't say. I really feel for you, I'm so sorry about Meg; I would be devastated to lose mine and I expect you feel the same.
 
I do agree it's a risk when they run off like that but it's also a real shame that a dog that loves to run will never get the chance again. It's like people who never let their cats out incase they get run over. It's very sad that Meg didn't make it but she died doing something she loved.

Remember the joke..the doctor told his patient he should give up drinking, smoking and hanging round with wild women. The patient asked 'will it make me live longer? and the doctor replied 'no, but it will feel like it'
 
It's a real dilemma. We're trying to block every little hole she can squeeze through, but it's a bit of a job with a large field. The trouble is that now she's realised she can squeeze through hedges that's all she wants to do and makes a beeline for it the minute you let her off. You'd think the field was big enough, wouldn't you? Being a greyhound, she only wants to do that first burst and leg it round for 10 minutes or so and then she gives up and potters with the rest. But the first 10 minutes is now spent trying to escape and once she's off, you can't get to the hedge before her! We'll beat her yet. It just takes enough chicken wire!

I do feel for Meg's owner though. I do hope he/she can bring him/herself to get another one if she was a rescue/track dog, because there's so many of them needing homes and they are super dogs.
 
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It's a real dilemma. We're trying to block every little hole she can squeeze through, but it's a bit of a job with a large field. The trouble is that now she's realised she can squeeze through hedges that's all she wants to do and makes a beeline for it the minute you let her off. You'd think the field was big enough, wouldn't you? Being a greyhound, she only wants to do that first burst and leg it round for 10 minutes or so and then she gives up and potters with the rest. But the first 10 minutes is now spent trying to escape and once she's off, you can't get to the hedge before her! We'll beat her yet. It just takes enough chicken wire!

I do feel for Meg's owner though. I do hope he/she can bring him/herself to get another one if she was a rescue/track dog, because there's so many of them needing homes and they are super dogs.

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I've got to admit I have had a greyhound like this - we werent lucky enough to have our own land, but every time we went for a walk she was off across three fields before you could blink
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On the advice of the rescue organisation we stopped letting her off the lead; they told us some greyhounds will never lose this instinct, and it is safer not to take the risk as she was crossing roads etc.

A couple of months later she lost a hind leg following a localised infection, but she still loved her walks on her extending lead and racing around in our back garden with the others
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I also have an ex racer, I am lucky that he refuses to go thro hedgelines, even when chasing the rabbits, so I can safely let him off in the fields as he is too much of a pansy to push thro the brambles/hedges that surround the fields!! RIP pretty girl.
 
I do sympathise....my old lurcher and his terrier cross pal used to leg it whenever possible and get in all sorts of trouble. The lurcher needed lots of exercise so I used to keep him on the lead while I rode my bike round our local disused airfield and then let him off in our little local park for that 'mad five' they enjoy so much. It is indeed a dilemma and weighing up the dangers against the pleasure they get is a tough one.
 
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