By Brendan Rees
After three lonely nights of being in the cold and dark, 16-year-old Oskar has finally been reunited with his family after going missing from his Guy Hills home.
Chelsea Lowe said her beloved Maltese Shih Tzu, Oskar, who is deaf and blind, had wandered off from their Beaconsfield-Emerald Road home about 7pm on Sunday 12 April.
“He’s very old so he doesn’t go down the stairs at night time … for some reason he did and we went out to get him and he was gone,” she said.
Despite frantically searching, Oskar was nowhere to be seen on the family’s 40-acre property which also has dams, leading Chelsea to fear the worst.
After three restless nights and no sign of Oskar, who had been without food, Chelsea became desperate.
Fortunately, her neighbours and their kids offered to help join the search for Oskar who they had found cowering in a deep gully at the back of their property, distressed and confused, on Wednesday afternoon, 15 April.
“He must’ve slipped and fell and couldn’t get out because it was so deep so the parents went and climbed down and got him out,” Chelsea said, adding her neighbour’s property also spanned on a number of acres.
“It’s definitely scary because they always have kangaroos on their lot as well so he would’ve been very terrified.”
Chelsea took Oskar to the Vet where he was assessed to be in pretty good shape despite the ordeal.
Chelsea was overwhelmed with emotion saying, “I don’t think I slept at all just because he’s so old … what was he thinking?”
The gracious owner offered her appreciation to her neighbours in a Facebook post: “Thank you to the kids for finding him, he wouldn’t have had long left- not all heroes wear capes!
“The luckiest 16-year-old doggo ever, deaf and blind but constantly proving he’s a survivor and always has been.”
