Jack Russell missing for four months returns home for Christmas
by admin on Dec.28, 2011, under Jack Russell News
A WHIFF of ham and the promise of a feast proved too tempting for Lucy.
The two-year-old Jack Russell cross has been lured home after four months on the run.
Owner Stacey Barnden, 25, and her family plan to spoil their Christmas miracle with a big bone after resigning themselves to never seeing her again.
Ms Barnden put up posters, scoured vets and shelters and placed newspaper advertisements after Lucy vanished from her Mt Evelyn home on August 27.
But when the weeks turned to months and there was still no sign of her beloved dog, she and her family began to lose hope.
The call that made their Christmas came on Saturday from a Boronia vet – about 9km from where Lucy disappeared – who had scanned Lucy’s microchip and discovered she was listed as missing.
“I didn’t really believe it at first, I didn’t want to get my hopes up because we’d had a lot of false alarms at first with the posters,” Ms Barnden said.
After wandering around for several weeks, a skinny Lucy was taken in by a couple who had been afraid to hand her into the pound for fear she would be put down.
But when they took her to the vet months later, her true owner was discovered.
“It’s fantastic, it is the best Christmas present ever,” Ms Barnden said.
This Jack Russell article was found at the www.heraldsun.com.au website.
