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Will I ever find him? ** Charlie home safe!! **

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  • #102
    awman
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭awman


    Thanks so much everyone for all your comments. I really really appreciate it. Unfortunately that dog found in Mitchelstown is a female :( Going out of my mind at this stage... really dont know what else to do....he's missing 12 days today. I just cant believe we have had no sighting of him at all. Even if we had a sighting of him and knew that he was alive and it was only a case of tracking him down... it just makes all the negative thoughts come to the fore. Did someone deliberately take him? Is he dead in a field somewhere and we've managed to walk by him or drive by him and not see him? Did someone "get rid of him" for maybe chasing sheep or for pestering them if they had a dog in heat? We also live very close to the railway line and i'm starting to think did he maybe wander out on the railway line? (which in fairness would be very unlike him, he'd have to really go out of his way to get there, its close to us but at the same he's never ever gone near it before). I dont know what to think. We did let the postman know about Charlie but unfortunately they havent seen sight of him. It's just very strange that NOBODY has seen him.


  • #103
    Gareth2011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭Gareth2011


    Aw no still nothing. Be sure to keep calling the pounds and spca's etc. Remember the pound especially won't be too pushed about calling people you will need to keep on their backs every 2nd day or so. It is strange no one has seen him but not unusual. You'd be suprised how many people don't take notice of dogs walking around even if they pass a poster of him. Il say a prayer for him tonight and hope you get him back safe and sound.


  • #104
    SingItOut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭SingItOut


    I come back here everyday hoping you have found him :( don't give up hope yet, my aunts 13 year old retriever went missing for a month and then they found him alive while walking through the fields in front of their house ... I just seen the pic you uploaded on facebook with charlie and your mastiff, please please please get a collar and identity tag for your other dog if you haven't already done so x


  • #105
    Vince32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭Vince32


    Don't lose hope mate, dogs can very well look after themselves if they have too, My first JRT Max could hunt and eat rodents all day long, and leave the remains at my doorstep for approval, it's still less than 2 weeks and not that it matters much but insurance company's don't consider a dog "lost" until 30 days. There is still good hope charlie can be found safe and well.

    Thinking of you both everyday, I really hope you find him soon.


  • #106
    angelfire9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭angelfire9


    Vince32 wrote: »
    Don't lose hope mate, dogs can very well look after themselves if they have too, My first JRT Max could hunt and eat rodents all day long, and leave the remains at my doorstep for approval, it's still less than 2 weeks and not that it matters much but insurance company's don't consider a dog "lost" until 30 days. There is still good hope charlie can be found safe and well.

    Thinking of you both everyday, I really hope you find him soon.

    OP there was an oldish looking lab type dig at the costcutter in roslevan Ennis today I tore home to look at your pic and borrow a lead to pick him up and bring him home but he'd wandered off when I got back will keep my eyes peeled tomorrow and take a photo if I see him I feel like such an idiot that I didn't take a pic today sorry :(


  • #107
    awman
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭awman


    angelfire9 - aw your very good, thanks very much. I wonder was it him? Maybe I'll try ringing the costcutters in ennis and see if anyone there has seen him around the place since? Ennis is quite far from where i live but then again he has been missing for almost 2 weeks now so you'd never know. Can you remember if the dog you saw was wearing a collar?


  • #108
    angelfire9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭angelfire9


    awman wrote: »
    angelfire9 - aw your very good, thanks very much. I wonder was it him? Maybe I'll try ringing the costcutters in ennis and see if anyone there has seen him around the place since? Ennis is quite far from where i live but then again he has been missing for almost 2 weeks now so you'd never know. Can you remember if the dog you saw was wearing a collar?

    No collar
    The number for costcutter where I saw him is 06568 23 808
    Good luck!!!!!!!!!


  • #109
    awman
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭awman


    Angelfire9 - I rang costcutters, the lady that answered said that that dog has been around for months, she said she thinks he is living in one of the houses nearby, he comes around the shop everyday and raids their bins so unfortunately its not Charlie. But I just want to say thanks very much for keeping an eye out for me and for going to the trouble of going back to the shop an everything. It's very kind of you. I'll keep hoping, he has to be out there somewhere.


  • #110
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    There's a new post in the lost and found thread about a stray golden retriever (could a GR be mistaken for a lab?) around Newport. I know there are Newports in mayo and limerick but if it's the limerick one, might be worth following up?


  • #111
    puss
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭puss


    jack presley wrote: »
    There's a new post in the lost and found thread about a stray golden retriever (could a GR be mistaken for a lab?) around Newport. I know there are Newports in mayo and limerick but if it's the limerick one, might be worth following up?

    that post is here. Fingers crossed that it is Charlie.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055413146&page=98


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  • #112
    Blogger50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭Blogger50


    Hi,

    Just thought I would check if there was any update (and shamelessly bump the thread in an effort to keep it on page 1;))

    B


  • #113
    JustAThought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Y; I found a little puppy Labrador/ GR ; only about 3 months old if that; a little lost bundle of wagging tail & love & have been staggered at how much effort it is to get around to everywhere to inform them & put signs up!!! I'm quite proactive but with vets , guards & some pounds you get a one word answer to " is anyone looking for.." quite surprising really.. Particularly considering the cute factor. Someone might be looking after your dog maybe not a computer user & Charlie might be well & sound & enjoying a pampered holiday with a nice person who is hoping it's owner will turn up on their doorstep !!! Don't imagine the worst. Fingers crossed & thinking of you.


  • #114
    Saaron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 614 ✭✭✭Saaron


    Blogger50 wrote: »
    Hi,

    Just thought I would check if there was any update (and shamelessly bump the thread in an effort to keep it on page 1;))

    B

    I've been quietly following this thread and would also love an update! I'm really hoping for this to have a happy ending :)


  • #115
    minxie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,064 ✭✭✭minxie


    Shot in the dark here :
    https://www.facebook.com/notes/animal-heaven-animal-rescue/meet-the-latest-three-tied-to-my-gate-today/327444627298967


  • #116
    Kali_Kalika
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 332 ✭✭Kali_Kalika


    Like many, many, many others I sign in every day just to see if there's been any update on this - and everytime its bumped my heart gives a little flutter of hope.

    I cannot imagine the hell you are going through with him missing this long. Last week my girl disappeared out of sight for about 10 minutes and I was beside myself - so I literally cannot imagine what you are all going through. Every day I cross my little girls paws for you, your family and poor poor Charlie. Human and doggy thoughts are with you from every inch of this country hoping and praying for a reunion!


  • #117
    ziggy23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭ziggy23


    I'm the same have been following it here and on Facebook. I just have this feeling that he is in someone's house. Surely if he was dead you would have found his body or heard of his body being found. Hope I don't upset anybody by saying that. I really do think he's somewhere safe. I've had cats go missing on me before but the difference with cats is sometimes they will go off somewhere to die or if they are sick to hide and be alone whereas a dog just wants shelter and food. Please don't give up xx


  • #118
    Shazanne
    Registered Users Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭Shazanne


    I feel the same Ziggy. As I said up above at some stage, my instinct tells me that Charlie is safe and well with someone who hasn't a clue that he is being looked for.
    I pray every single day that Charlie and his owner will be reunited. And I do believe that they will.


  • #119
    Zapperzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,524 ✭✭✭Zapperzy


    Everytime I see an update I think he's been found too. Still thinking about you OP. :(


  • #120
    tk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,050 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    Zapperzy wrote: »
    Everytime I see an update I think he's been found too. Still thinking about you OP. :(

    Me too - I come on to check this throughout the day to see if he's been found! :(


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  • #121
    awman
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭awman


    Thanks a million to each and every one of you for all your lovely comments. I'm sad to say that I still have not found Charlie. He will be missing 3 weeks this coming Thursday and the hope that I had of finding him is so low now. I really appreciate you all saying that you think and feel in your hearts that he is safe and someone is looking after him. I've spent almost every minute of the last 19 days thinking about him, wandering where he is and if he is alive. Unfortunately the last couple of days my mind is more inclined to steer towards him being dead which I hate even typing and it upsets me so much but I just have that feeling. My husband thinks that the only explanation for him being missing this long is that someone "got rid of him". If he was alive and wandering the roads, we'd surely have found him by now? I've posters up, I've rang all the vets, i've rang the pound, i've it on all the lost animal websites, I've asked the postman, i've asked all the neighbours, I've set up a specific facebook page to try find him - nobody has seen any sight of him. It's the only real explanation but then I think about the kind of dog he was and I cant see him pestering sheep or lambs, he was such a quiet, nervous dog, it just wouldnt be like him to go after sheep. Unless there was a dog in heat somewhere near our home and he was wandering out at night for quiet a bit and we never realised it - I just dont know what to think. If that is what happened then whoever did it has surely seen all my posters up everywhere and they're letting me get on with trying to find him knowing that he is dead. Its just so upsetting not knowing what happened to him :(


  • #122
    Autosport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Dont give up hope, I know its easy for me to say but i really feel that he is somewhere safe annd sound and someone is looking after him. I say a prayer for him every morning and evening and have lit a few candles for him.


  • #123
    Blogger50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭Blogger50


    I really don't know what to say to you. My heart really goes out to you.

    I would be like a demented person going out of my mind with worry and the not knowing.

    I know its no consolation but I think of you and Charlie every day. You look like a lovely person from your photo and so happy with your fur babies.

    If there is any justice in the world Charlie will find his way home.

    B


  • #124
    magentas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭magentas


    Just read the whole thread from start, I'm so sorry to read your story.
    Keep your faith and I really really hope Charlie comes home soon


  • #125
    Gareth2011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭Gareth2011


    Im so sorry there is still no sign of him :(. Even google searchs just keep bringing back up the same missing animals. Im sure someone is taking good care of him but try keep hopefull. Il keep thinking about him and praying he comes home to you.


  • #126
    koneko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,304 ✭✭✭✭koneko


    I keep checking this thread too hoping for good news, and I'll still keep my fingers crossed for you.


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  • #127
    awman
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭awman


    Thanks everyone, I really appreciate it.


  • #128
    Traonach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Traonach


    koneko wrote: »
    I keep checking this thread too hoping for good news, and I'll still keep my fingers crossed for you.
    X2
    Hopefully the dog turns up.


  • #129
    Taceom
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭Taceom


    Traonach wrote: »
    X2
    Hopefully the dog turns up.


    I check in here every day hoping there will be good news. Fingers crossed it will be soon.


  • #130
    awman
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭awman


    Still no luck finding him, 3 weeks tomorrow :(


  • #131
    Shazanne
    Registered Users Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭Shazanne


    My heart break for you but try to stay strong. My prayers continue every day:)


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  • #132
    JustAThought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    I'm so sorry to hear that he is still lost. I tied my dogs name tag on today with a second tie; it's so hard for people to find owners without a number or chip.

    I found a little lab puppy in the park the other week : no chip, no tag & it's being taken care of in a loving warm happy home until we can find it's owners,
    Don't give up.


  • #133
    MarkyMark22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 554 ✭✭✭MarkyMark22


    http://www.mnn.com/family/pets/videos/after-8-years-missing-dog-found

    Dont Give up...


  • #134
    excaliburhc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭excaliburhc


    ditto ,1 post i check daily just in the hope you find him.

    sympathies for what you and yours are going through and what charlie must be going through .

    keep the hope.


  • #135
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    Hi OP,

    This is the girl who rang you about the dog in childers rd. by KFC, I saw him when I was walking in and remembered when I was at the counter about your posts. I tried looking for him when I got out to take a picture for you but there was no sign of him, I can only assume that he followed the group of teenagers that were feeding him scraps.

    Like I said on the phone he was an elderly Labrador, wearing a brown collar with no tags and he looked weather beaten as if he had been roaming around for a few weeks. I asked the girl behind the counter about him and she said she had never seen him around before. I'm sorry now I didn't get a pic when I was walking in. It's definitely worth taking a trip in to see if you can see him around.


  • #136
    northern lights
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭northern lights


    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    Hi OP,

    This is the girl who rang you about the dog in childers rd. by KFC, I saw him when I was walking in and remembered when I was at the counter about your posts. I tried looking for him when I got out to take a picture for you but there was no sign of him, I can only assume that he followed the group of teenagers that were feeding him scraps.

    Like I said on the phone he was an elderly Labrador, wearing a brown collar with no tags and he looked weather beaten as if he had been roaming around for a few weeks. I asked the girl behind the counter about him and she said she had never seen him around before. I'm sorry now I didn't get a pic when I was walking in. It's definitely worth taking a trip in to see if you can see him around.

    Oh please, please, please let that be Charlie... Keeping everything crossed for you awman x


  • #137
    awman
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭awman


    meoklmrk91 - Thank you so much for ringing me. I wasnt long off the phone from you when another lady rang me saying she had seen that dog around KFC as well. She also thought he looked alot like Charlie. A friend of mine drove me in to see if we could find the dog. Unfortunately by the time we got in there the dog was gone. We asked the people working in KFC if they had seen the dog but they said they hadnt. There was a security man working around there and we asked him. He said he had also seen the dog and that he was with the group of teenagers. He told us the direction that they went walking in but we still couldnt find them. He said that those teenagers are always around and that he has never seen a dog with them before. I gave him my phone number and he said if he sees the dog around there again that he will ring me. I also gave the security man in Dunnes my phone number and I asked in the petrol station near Childers Road and left my number with them. Thanks again to you for ringing me. I really appreciate it. If there's even a slight chance that it is Charlie then it's worth trying to find out if it's him. The only thing that is making me think it's not him is that the dog was wearing a brown collar and Charlie went missing with no collar on but maybe someone put a collar on him. It's unlikely but you never know.

    If anyone is in around that area of Lmk please keep an eye out. I'm going to drive in there again tomorrow in the day light cause it was very hard to see in the dark tonight and it was raining which wasnt helping either.

    Fingers crossed everyone.


  • #138
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    northern lights wrote: »
    Oh please, please, please let that be Charlie... Keeping everything crossed for you awman x

    I am really hoping that is him too, still kicking myself for not getting a picture, I just spent so long trying to find OP's phone number on the internet that by the time I came out to snap one he had gone.


  • #139
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    awman wrote: »
    meoklmrk91 - Thank you so much for ringing me. I wasnt long off the phone from you when another lady rang me saying she had seen that dog around KFC as well. She also thought he looked alot like Charlie. A friend of mine drove me in to see if we could find the dog. Unfortunately by the time we got in there the dog was gone. We asked the people working in KFC if they had seen the dog but they said they hadnt. There was a security man working around there and we asked him. He said he had also seen the dog and that he was with the group of teenagers. He told us the direction that they went walking in but we still couldnt find them. He said that those teenagers are always around and that he has never seen a dog with them before. I gave him my phone number and he said if he sees the dog around there again that he will ring me. I also gave the security man in Dunnes my phone number and I asked in the petrol station near Childers Road and left my number with them. Thanks again to you for ringing me. I really appreciate it. If there's even a slight chance that it is Charlie then it's worth trying to find out if it's him. The only thing that is making me think it's not him is that the dog was wearing a brown collar and Charlie went missing with no collar on but maybe someone put a collar on him. It's unlikely but you never know.

    If anyone is in around that area of Lmk please keep an eye out. I'm going to drive in there again tomorrow in the day light cause it was very hard to see in the dark tonight and it was raining which wasnt helping either.

    Fingers crossed everyone.

    He looks so like him, especially with they greying around the face but like I said it was dark. I will be in Limerick again tomorrow and will drop in to Childers Rd. to see if I can see any sign of him. Fingers crossed for you OP.


  • #140
    awman
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭awman


    meoklmrk91- dont worry about not getting a pic. You went to the trouble of getting my number and ringing me and I really really appreciate it. I went off in such a hurry that I left without bringing the posters or pics of Charlie with me so I'll definitely drive back in there tomorrow and maybe put up some posters around that area. praying that it's him.


  • #141
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    awman wrote: »
    meoklmrk91- dont worry about not getting a pic. You went to the trouble of getting my number and ringing me and I really really appreciate it. I went off in such a hurry that I left without bringing the posters or pics of Charlie with me so I'll definitely drive back in there tomorrow and maybe put up some posters around that area. praying that it's him.

    Really it's no problem, I know I would be devastated if it was my furbaby, plus I think everyone is rooting for a happy ending to this story.


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  • #142
    Zapperzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,524 ✭✭✭Zapperzy


    Amazing how 10 pages and 3 weeks later there are still so many people out there keeping an eye out there for him, between people here on boards, on facebook and those that seen posters there must be at least 100+, even nice to see names on this thread that you wouldn't normally see posting in API. Shows you that there are still lots of people out there that care despite all the bad things you hear.


  • #143
    ziggy23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭ziggy23


    Fingers crossed OP xx


  • #144
    bodonnell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭bodonnell


    OP So sorry to hear about your dog, would be devastated to lose Molly our choc. lab. Anyway I work in Castleroy area & will keep an eye out for him
    PM sent


  • #145
    Blogger50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭Blogger50


    Oh I really hope this is Charlie. It sounds promising. I wouldnt be put off by the fact that this dog has a collar either. Someone may have put it on him.

    Fingers, toes, everything crossed.

    B


  • #146
    e29j07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭e29j07


    hope its him :) fingers and toes crossed for ya x


  • #147
    Autosport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Everything crossed for u, hopefully it is Charlie :)


  • #148
    dudmis
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭dudmis


    Hi, this lab has just been posted up on Munster Dog Rescue facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/photo.php?fbid=372752419403097&set=a.311601812184825.86934.310962562248750&type=1&theater)

    He was found in Listowel - he looks like he has white colouring around the eyes like Charlie?

    Fingers crossed.


  • #149
    RubyGirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭RubyGirl


    dudmis wrote: »
    Hi, this lab has just been posted up on Munster Dog Rescue facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/photo.php?fbid=372752419403097&set=a.311601812184825.86934.310962562248750&type=1&theater)

    He was found in Listowel - he looks like he has white colouring around the eyes like Charlie?

    Fingers crossed.

    I would say this guy is a lot younger than Charlie.


  • #150
    puss
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭puss


    dudmis wrote: »
    Hi, this lab has just been posted up on Munster Dog Rescue facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/photo.php?fbid=372752419403097&set=a.311601812184825.86934.310962562248750&type=1&theater)

    He was found in Listowel - he looks like he has white colouring around the eyes like Charlie?

    Fingers crossed.
    I don't think this is Charlie either. Lovely dog and I hope his owners claims him.
    Here's hoping Charlie is found soon.


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  • #151
    ziggy23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭ziggy23


    puss wrote: »
    I don't think this is Charlie either. Lovely dog and I hope his owners claims him.
    Here's hoping Charlie is found soon.
    The dog in the pound was reunited with his family tonight seen it on facebook...let's hope Charlie is too soon.


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