Missing blind dog found by MOD radar (From Southend Standard)
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Missing blind dog found by MOD radar
9:00am Saturday 16th March 2013 in Echo News
Karen Quinn with her dog, Cookie.
A WOMAN has been reunited with her blind Jack Russell dog after friends, neighbours and strangers joined together in a three day search spanning miles... and a military firing range.
Karen Quinn, of Oban Road, Southend, was distraught when her beloved dog Cookie did a runner while they were out walking in Shoebury.
Despite a frantic initial search, Karen couldn't find her and she asked neighbours to keep an eye out. She said: "We looked for her until it was so dark, we couldn't see to look any more."
Neighbours were up at 6:30am the next morning, putting up posters, searching and rallying friends and strangers to help - but there was still no sign of her.
On the third day, Karen recieved a message from the Ministry of Defence base at Shoebury, saying her dog had been spotted by a radar operator at the firing ranges.
But by 4pm when they were allowed onto the ranges, the dog had vanished.
Karens friends posted a photo on Facebook and she was overwhelmed by the response. She said: "People were going out in cars looking for her, and my phone didn't stop ringing with sightings of her."
Cookie was eventually found by the side of a busy road, having been all around Shoebury, Southend, Great Wakering and East Beach.
Karen said: "I'm just so glad I got her back, and I wanted to thank everybody who helped out - friends, neighbours, people going out in cars all day looking for her.
"You hear of so many dogs going missing, and you never seem to hear about the ones who come back.
"It just goes to show what you can do when a whole community works together."
Comments(13)
emcee
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1:01pm Sat 16 Mar 13
Carnabackable
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2:49pm Sat 16 Mar 13
Not A Native
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4:38pm Sat 16 Mar 13
Spotted by a radar operator is a world apart from spotted by a radar.
ShrimperSS0
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5:38pm Sat 16 Mar 13
scatty jackie
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6:09pm Sat 16 Mar 13
Soouthchurch59
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10:34pm Sat 16 Mar 13
All of the palaver related above, could have been avoided with a little common sense.
exAkela
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8:46am Sun 17 Mar 13
dhd
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11:24am Mon 18 Mar 13
exAkela wrote:He is microchipped, I can't see where you got your information from.
Glad he was found safe but may be a good idea to get him microchipped.
Eric the Red
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12:14pm Mon 18 Mar 13
Soouthchurch59 wrote:I've got a dog with no legs. I have to take him out for a drag every evening.
I'm glad the dog's safe.... but why did she let a dog that can't see, off the lead?
All of the palaver related above, could have been avoided with a little common sense.
perini
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1:08pm Mon 18 Mar 13
Not A Native wrote:Not necessarily - Cookie might have been spotted situated next to a radar installation, in which case it would be correct (by as in next to)
Only problem with the story is that the headline is an outright lie. Spotted by a radar operator is a world apart from spotted by a radar.
Not A Native
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1:19pm Mon 18 Mar 13
perini wrote:How would being situated next to an installation make the headline correct?
Not A Native wrote:Not necessarily - Cookie might have been spotted situated next to a radar installation, in which case it would be correct (by as in next to)
Only problem with the story is that the headline is an outright lie. Spotted by a radar operator is a world apart from spotted by a radar.
I've no idea where he was spotted, or who spotted him, but I guarantee he was not spotted by radar. The headline was made to sound cute at the expense of truth.
perini
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2:15pm Mon 18 Mar 13
Not A Native wrote:Typical Echo - why let the facts get in the way of a story - but 'spotted by radar' could mean 'Oh look, there's a dog by that radar;' as opposed to the radar finding the dog!
perini wrote:How would being situated next to an installation make the headline correct? I've no idea where he was spotted, or who spotted him, but I guarantee he was not spotted by radar. The headline was made to sound cute at the expense of truth.Not A Native wrote: Only problem with the story is that the headline is an outright lie. Spotted by a radar operator is a world apart from spotted by a radar.Not necessarily - Cookie might have been spotted situated next to a radar installation, in which case it would be correct (by as in next to)
Joe Wildman-Clark says...
10:39am Sat 16 Mar 13