[yorkietalkjilly]

Ellie81, I know you are exhausted, wrung out and overwrought with missing Bengi, your young family missing him, caring for those kids and perhaps a job, other family things going on, holidays approaching and searching for a lost dog! I lost a little poodle years ago who ran away the moment we brought her home and set her down in the front yard to potty as she was already starting to "go" in the car. She didn't potty, she dashed off down the block and we spent weeks looking for her every spare moment we weren't in school or working. My son and I did nothing else but work to find that dog for weeks and weeks. He missed sports practices and games and I stopped shopping, cooking, we lived on take-out. It is exhausting and so frustrating. We went literally house to house calling her name, walked down alleys for miles calling her, calling under garage doors, calling through house doors and windows, looking into yards occasionally, being run out, printed posters, hung them repeatedly up everywhere we could, replaced them often, sent letter/pictures to newspapes, ran ads and haunted parks, woods, mall parking lots, Animal Shelters, city limits areas and the few rescue org's. there were then. We never found Red Robin but once we stopped looking, we had learned a lot, knew we'd done all there was to do and had gone as far as possible trying to locate her. And it made us both much more cautious in so many ways.

You live and learn and life doesn't always work out but knowing you gave it all you could is something in the end. Plus, you very well could find her as she knows your voice, knows you so well, that if you are in her vicinity, she will come running whereas Robin didn't know us at all. With the internet, all the rescue org's., pet-friendly TV, etc., you very well may get Bengi back one day, even if someone outright stole him. So try to bear up and hang in there. Everyone here understands much of what you are going through. We'll help all that we can. And we're praying hard. Try to keep your chin up.