BLUE, MISSING FOR 4 MONTHS SAFELY TRAPPED AND HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
We were contacted to help with a stray poodle type dog in Salford M6 on Thursday 5 December 2024 that had been seen the night before. A Facebook post had gone online and some people tried catching him which, as expected, the dog ran and evaded them.
We placed a feed station and live camera near to where he had been seen and a scent trail mix leading to the food. Approximately an hour later he turned up and fed.
The following day, Friday 6 December, we replaced the feed station with a humane trap laced with appetising food and settled in our cars to wait. At 11.04pm, he turned up at the trap, walked around it once and went straight in. The trap door shut and he was finally safe.
Once safely inside a house, we let him out of the trap and he went to me and buried his head in my chest. He was so scared, bless him, but he wanted the comfort. He remained like that until I had to leave so I left him my jumper on top of his blankets which he slept on all night and today. He had a thin leather collar on and part of a thin chain lead. The collar was embedded into his neck and it took a while to remove. It was mostly embedded into his dreadfully matted fur but had started embedding into his skin. His fur was in a terrible state and many parts had tore out leaving red inflamed skin. Underneath all the mats he was as thin as a skeleton with all his bones sticking out.
When we got his chip details, we were overjoyed to see that this dog was in fact Blue, a poodle cross dog that had gone missing on the 15 August. He had been lost for 4 months and survived out there all this time. Through fireworks and the minus degree temperatures that we had lately, and the snow. There had been no sightings of him up until Wednesday night, the 4 December.
We had the utmost pleasure of contacting Blue’s family and telling them that we had found Blue. They were absolutely thrilled to know that he was alive and we had safely trapped him. We took Blue back home and one shut down little boy, Blue, turned into a frenzy when he saw his family, especially his dad who he lives with. It was such a tearful happy reunion.
