Snoopy, the rescue dog who’s been missing since Sunday afternoon, is now back safe and sound at his Forest Hills Drive home following a huge search effort, owner Frances Orchard has confirmed.
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There’s been huge interest in the search for Snoopy, who flew out through a front door when a visitor he didn’t know came to his house.
He was subsequently spotted all over Bitterne Park and, latterly, over the river around Daisy Dip.
Owner Frances Orchard, who’s only had Snoopy a month, said she’d been ready to go back to Daisy Dip to resume the search very early on Thursday.
“I’ve been sat in Copperfield Road for days now, because there’s a little place where he keeps taking food from, and we were hoping last night we were going to catch him.
“But I had a phone call to say he was down Daisy Dip. So I drive down to Daisy Dip, and you could just see his eyes amongst the grass. But because there were five people with me he would not come out.
“He legged it.
“I thought right: now I know he’s down Daisy Dip, I’m getting up early tomorrow morning... for half past four when it just starts to get light, I’ll go down there. Because it’s so dark and creepy down there!
“And I was all ready to go down there when we hear this bark outside the back door this morning.
“And I’m like, my god, he’s home!”
‘Snoopy, you have been lost for five days nearly. I don’t believe this!’
Frances said she’d been searching “all the time”, and was taking time off work to continue trying to find him.
“At first he was all round Bond Road, Hill Side Avenue, and then we lost track off him... and then someone said to me he’d gone over Woodmill Bridge, so late in the evening I went over Woodmill Bridge.”
“I phoned up work to say I wasn’t coming to work for the week. Not until I find him... I said I’ve got to find him, I’m not leaving him out there.”
She said her neighbour Lynne Simms has been “absolutely wonderful” helping with the search and organising a whole campaign, including posters and even a Facebook page.
“We had so many people searching for him. I can’t thank everybody enough. To find he’s now come home is unbelievable.”
“He’s at home. He’s tired. He’s curled up in a ball. And when he came in he ran indoors, sat on the settee and just looked at me. I said ‘Where’ve you been?’ And his head was going from side to side. And I said ‘Snoopy, you have been lost for five days nearly. I don’t believe this!’”
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