[laurenr]

I have been gone the whole day and have come back here to catch up, like I usually do at the end of the day.

It feel SO much sadness to read some of these posts. In the past 6 weeks, there has been SO much love shared here, so many friendships formed and nurtured - all through the love of a little lost Yorkie, and the shared desire to bring him home.

Kathy sums it up perfectly with her usual kindness and optimism:
"I will continue to pray for Zeke, ask for help from those willing to do so...and hopefully this whole thing will have the happy ending we all hope and pray for, and we will find Zeke wherever he may be. I will continue to focus on the positive and ignore the negative, after all that is what friends are for.
So in closing, yes we all have opinions...and have a right to voice those opinions, but just like all the ideas suggested...Maureen will not take them all to heart, and act on each personally. We are all here for the very same reason...for the love of our Yorkies. Nobody wants Maureen hurt in any way, and she is hurting...she is missing her precious dog, Zeke. And I for one will not stop searching, offering advise...helping when I can, in any way I can!!!
Zeke...Your mommy needs you more now then ever...please come home, and stop this insanity. Now I will go light another candle, tonight I will make another wish upon the first star and I will pray."

Jeannie, I hope more than anyone, that you are reading this. What you have done in the past few weeks for Maureen astounds me. I am in total awe of your devotion to the cause of Zeke. I am honored to call you my friend, as is almost EVERYONE here. You are probably the single most, hardest worker in the search for Zeke. We should all be reminded of that fact.

We must all remember, we are INDIVIDUALS, and as such, we must allow each other our own opinions. They are not necessarily wrong, just DIFFERENT. Surely we can allow that??

Maureen, don't EVER think you are in any way the cause of today's disagreements. You are a sweet, gentle soul, grieving for the loss of your precious Zeke, wanting only to have him back by your side.

I am appealing to EVERYONE here. Go back and read again, how ever many pages you want - what is the foremost prevailing factor iin this thread.... what do you see written or described here every day, week after week? It is not anger, it is not recrimination, it is not blame.... the single most prevailing message in all 160 pages here is LOVE. I beg you all to remember that. Do you not see the affection we all feel for each other, the gentle teasing, the kidding around, the genuine concern, in between the serious business of finding Zeke. We do not just come here to continue the search, we come to revisit with our friends, the ones that have come to mean SO much to each other during the past month and a half.

How sad it would be, if we let anger overtake what I have described above. What we have all formed here is a very precious bond.... I am appealing to all of your not to let it break.

Maureen, I so wish I could do more for your Hon, before I leave on Friday.

I do hope, with all of my heart, that no-one here will take offence to anything I have written, because none is intended.

With much love, and a little sadness,
Lauren