By CASEY NEILL
A NARRE Warren family is desperately searching for their diabetic pooch, who went missing from a Dandenong North home almost three weeks ago.
Boofy the tan poodle-cross was staying with Sarah Bond’s parents while the family was in Fiji but dug under a fence on 15 June.
“The gap that she’s got out of is the tiniest little gap. You wouldn’t even think she’d fit her head through it,” Ms Bond said.
“It was literally as we were in the air flying home.
“Our original flight was cancelled, otherwise we would have been back in time.
“It was raining and wet that day and she may have looked bedraggled and unloved.
“She is very much loved.”
The three-year-old needs a prescription diet and insulin to keep her diabetes under control and Ms Bond worries that she’ll lose consciousness.
“If she is excessively sleepy or overly excited she will need help quickly,” she said.
“We are extremely worried about her and her health.
“We’re trying to do as much as we can to bring her home.”
In their search for the microchipped hound, the Bonds have door-knocked, called councils, the RSPCA, dog shelters and vet clinics, and placed flyers in letter boxes and on poles at shopping centres, schools and churches.
They’ve also advertised on lost and found websites, set up Facebook page ‘Find lost dog Boofy in North Dandenong, VIC’, and even hired a pet detective company.
“I’m never going to give up because she’s like my third child,” Ms Bond said.
“We are appealing to anyone who may have seen her.
“Any information, no matter how small, is appreciated. We need to find her.”
Her children Emma, 6, and Josh, 2, are upset and worried for their pet.
“Josh says ‘Boofy gone?’ or ‘coming back?’. He doesn’t really understand,” she said.
“Emma was three when we got Boofy so she’s really sort of grown up with her.”
Ms Bond thinks someone might have adopted Boofy and is urging them to return her to a vet, no questions asked.
Call Pet Search on 1300 309 004 or Boofy’s family on 0418 982 583 with any information.
