Dogster member Boo is missing and his owners need your help.  If you have seen him in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area please contact  the owner at meganandwinnie@yahoo.com.

Boo, if you are reading this, please contact your parents immediately. They are worried sick about you.

I wanted to pass along a letter I received about six Toy Manchester Terriers that were stolen from a home.

The police think that the burglary was a cover and that the dogs were the target.A neighbor saw, the day of the break in, a white truck and a red car in her drive way.

Reward offered for information leading to the safe return of these dogs. If you have ANY info, PLEASE contact:
Thérèse Szulik - St-Damien, Québec Canada
Tel: (450) 835-4699 Email: therlik@hotmail.com

I can’t imagine the feeling of having six of your buddies just taken from you. If you live in the Quebec, Canada area, please keep your eyes out for these cute dogs.

Thanks Simba for bringing our attention to it.

Sometimes in the everyday chaos of caring for our furbabies we temporarily forget some very important truths. Thank you, Lena Malik, for reminding us that while our time with out furbabies is wonderful, it is also limited. We also need to keep the lost ones, like Blue, in our thoughts.

Lena Malik wrote:
Dear Joy,
Thursday, May 8th is a somber annifursary for many of us. Our dear friend BLUE will have been missing for a year.

I write in the spirit of all lost dogs wanting to go home to where they know they are wanted, missed and an integral part of the family who keeps on searching. I also write for all the humans having to deal with the uncertainties, the heartache and roller coaster of emotions trying to find their beloved pet. Hearing of incredible reunions and nearly impossible journeys back gives us hope while we try to cope with our own thoughts and emotions on how we would truly be, to survive and face each day not knowing and waiting, perhaps even with guilt or a thousand questions every day.

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How scary for this family! I’m so glad Callie has made it home.

Thanks to the Associated Press for this article.

Man who claimed dog was imposter reunited with right pooch

LAKE OSWEGO, Ore. (AP) — Ken Griggs finally brought the right dog home. More than two weeks after the Lake Oswego man claimed a boarding kennel returned the wrong dog after spring break, he and his family were reunited with their black Labrador named Callie.

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Thanks to FoxBusiness for this article.

Need to Know Where Your Dog or Car is? A Host of Devices Will Tell You

Donna Fuscaldo
FOXBusiness

From cell phones to wristbands to handheld devices, a host of companies are launching personal GPS locators that can find everything from a dog to a car.

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What do you do if you’re the mayor of Randolph, Iowa and you want to cut decrease the numbers of stray cats and dogs. You take a page from history and enact a bounty of them. Why use more modern (and sensible) tactics when its so easy to do something so 18th Century?

How many ways is this wrong? Let’s start with unscrupulous adults and children kidnapping dogs and cats to make money.

Here’s the mayor’s own newsletter openly admitting his retro tactics.

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Thanks to Jason for barking in this info about Miller Beer’s new ad campaign using fake lost dog ads spread around neighborhoods.

In my other life as a consultant I’ve seen a lot of insensitive ad campaigns launched by “creatives” who just want to get attention but this is pretty despicable and stupid. Miller is trying to virally promote Miller Beer with fake lost dog ads. Did anyone think this through? Unfortunately not.

Let’s see. Nail up posters in neighborhoods saying you’ve lost a dog so people will call in and get verbally spammed to drink Miller Beer. Did these “creatives” even stop to think that how poor an idea this was on soooo many levels?

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Thanks to Bill Whiting for barking in this article from Philly.com on Edna’s case.

Alleged dog-nap extortionist, traced to Virginia, turns himself in
By JULIE SHAW
Philadelphia Daily News

Victor Rodriguez, the teen charged with felony theft in the disappearance and possible torture last fall of Edna, the brown beagle mix, has surrendered to authorities.

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Big barks to all these aviation folks working to get Aragorn home!

Thanks to Dallas for barking in this article from CharterX.com.

Susan Bennett, 35, a single mother who is raising her 19-month-old son and 12-year-old daughter, thought she would never see her 9-year-old dog, Aragorn again, after he jumped out of the back of her truck during a cross-country drive. During an interview with Bennett, she found out that the private aviation community has a big heart. Sobbing, she said, “I’m so grateful to the wonderful people in the general aviation community for helping Aragorn to return home. Maine Aviation, Signature Flight Support and Air Royale International’s huge donations–God, all I can do is cry out of joy and say thank you, thank you.”

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How sad that even our furbabies aren’t safe from fraud…

Thanks to Sarah and Rudy for barking in this followup to the recent story on the reunion of Huckleberry and his human. This article ran on SympaticoMSN.

Two men facing charges in connection with dog theft
20/02/2008

The man who was hailed a hero for returning a missing dog has now been charged with attempted fraud in the case.

Toronto police took two suspects into custody Tuesday in connection to the case which received massive media attention when the owner of the dog offered to pay $15,000 for the safe return of his pet.

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