My baby is missing. I dont know what to do!???

[megooego]

That is great! I hope they do have one.

I have always used the discount and they never questioned it. You just give the employee number and you dont even have to sign for it or anything. I guess they are just really lax about it. My mom lives in Kansas and I am in Wisconsin and I use it. But yeah, pm me.

[Cookie2]

Originally Posted by orlnurse

Gen,
She is able to do this from her location without coming to PSL? Are you considering doing this?

What she does from her location is aerial mapping. Its like Google earth probably. She zooms out , she's the expert and knows what areas dogs would most likely go through, she pinpoints all these areas (streets)
and forwards this map to me. I put the laminated 11X17 posters. A large picture is very important. She said 1/2 the poster has to be his picture, a reward clear on the poster and phone number.

She says this has been the best way to get your pet back. She says k9 searches are a tool only. They can confirm that your dog was at a location, or can confirm if a caller's sighting location is true. Once that is done. You have to post the posters all over the area. She said I had to do this when the lady called about a tiny yorkie in a plaza. I put flyers but they wer not big enough.


Gen

[megooego]

So is that location a reasonable distance for you?

I will call my mom tonight and ask her about it. If necessary, she would be able to make the posters herself, and email it to the closest store to print them. She does projects for people all of the time, and she really enjoys it. (especially if I tell her the circumstances she would do it no problem.)

[Cookie2]

Originally Posted by megooego

So is that location a reasonable distance for you?

I will call my mom tonight and ask her about it. If necessary, she would be able to make the posters herself, and email it to the closest store to print them. She does projects for people all of the time, and she really enjoys it. (especially if I tell her the circumstances she would do it no problem.)

Its about 25-30 min from me. That is the closest and I can go get them. I need to findout what Office Depot charges for Laminated 11X17 and what they would cost with her discount.
I can easily design it as one of the posters from Karen's site.

Please findout for me.

Thank you!

Gen

[ReesiesDad]

You know I've been laid off for three years, it's tough here in Michigan, but I can help pay for posters, $50 is all I have to give. Does it go to k9pi.com? (my wife did this and said ok) She'd feel better if it went there.

[Cookie2]

The only problem I have with the k9 site is that she charges the $95 per hour
and designs the poster. Orders it from an Office Max or Staples for $3.19 ea
then I go pick it up.

I cant afford the 2.5 -3 hrs she is charging that is $237.50 for 2.5 hrs. Plus the cost of posters $127.

I went to Staples and they were more expensive! $3.78 each and the 40 of them cost $161.02 (tax incl)
Then I headed over to Office Max and that's where they charge $3.19 each=$127 plus tax=$135.89


So Karen's price would be $373.39. I cant do that.
I told my husband to go ahead and call the printing company guy he knows.
He was the cheapest! So we wont have to barter anything with him. We already bartered with them for most of the flyers. He is charging $2 per poster 11X17 that is $1 per print plus $1 for the laminate. I'm not going to find it cheaper than that.

I can get their information and if you feel comfortable you can call them and most likely be able to make a $50 by phone instead of Pay Pal.
Please let me know so he can be aware of anyone calling them about this. I need to order these by tomorrow morning and will be able to pickup by Thursday morning. I forgot the name but I know its like Graphic Solutions on Port St Lucie Blvd. I will post his name, business info and their number as soon as my husband gets home, Iwill ask him.

I am going to put all my effort and time on doing this and I am going to have to stop anything that I have to do with paying to search, ads anything like that. This is starting to bring me tension in my marriage. I can tell already everytime I bring up something about what we should do, or any calls I make or how much time I spend on the computer. I can tell its bothering him. He wont tell me of course but I've been married 19 yrs...
I'm getting a map of our area, doing google earth and do the pinpoint areas where the Yorkie was seen like 2 weeks ago that was 2 miles away from here. There are a lot of warehouses, in that area and I did not think of posting flyers there. So every entry down those 2 miles will have a Poster.
Also going to spread out a few miles in each direction. These will be more permament and they wont fade or rip.
I cant let go of this. Today I was fine again and all of a sudden when I see the poster I designed, I start crying in the car on the way to Staples & Office Max. My husband made a joke and I was just quiet. He had no idea I was crying. This is what is starting to get to him. I just want to find Cookie.
I have to let go somehow and I ask God or anyone to show me how???
Letting go is not giving up , thats not what I mean but my life for the past 6+ weeks has been Cookie 24/7. Even if I clean,cook and do a few things around the house. They are always done in a rush so I can get back to looking through ads, looking at pictures online, and doing more research.
This is it,

I just ask that all of you keep Cookie in your prayers and pray I get that call.
I dont want to think that 5+ years is all I have with him but if that is the final outcome. I have to say that those 5+ years were filled with best of the best of memories. We cuddled,played,went on rides,stroller rides,pampering,spoiling and tons of quality time and will always treasure the moments he would stare deep into my eyes and our eyes locked like we needed no words. That's how special our bond was. I'm choked up real bad now and my mom is outside waiting for me to go do groceries with her...fun


I will post later


Gen

[susan lynn]

Still praying for you and Cookie. I lost my cat 2 years ago, he was the love of my life until my yorkies. I did everything I could, I even put flyers on the school buses and I went everytime someone saw a black cat. It is a very emotional time and difficult for some people to understand. Maybe God can help your husband to understand. Women are just more emotional than men.

[IWAY]

Gen,
I pray everyday that I will log in and see a great big "COOKIES HOME!!" post from you, but until that day happens-(and I believe it will!)- have you thought of going to the groomers websites and asking for help there?
Here's one:
GroomerTALK and MobileGroomerTALK Community

There are several groomers who live and work in your area- hope this helps

[orlnurse]

Gen,
Please post the info as soon as you can. I"d like to donate.

Lesley.

[Cookie2]

We emailed them our PDF and we are picking it up tomorrow.
I might order another 10 posters from them.
He gave us a very good price and I cant complain $2!
I still had my husband email them and confirm what he said.
So it will be $80 plus tax.
Reesie'sDad = Richard donated $48.25 ..it was 50 but Pay Pal charged their percentage. And Cindy Sirois donated $25.


The company is :

Reprographic Solution Inc
818 SW Glenview Ct, Port St Lucie, Florida
(772) 340-3430

Ask for Greek:
The order is under Nelson's name (my hubby)

Anyone can call and confirm about our order

I will wait to speak to them tomorrow and confirm 100% its $2 each.
Thank God my husband talks to everyone and always takes business cards lol
IF we stop for gas ,my husband starts talking to someone for 15 min...
We've known them for a while and they have been very helpful.

I'm going to put these posters tomorrow night. I dont want to be out during the day. There is always someone to be nosy and tell me I cant put the poster here..


I have to accept that this is the most I can do. Everyone here has helped so much and I cant ask for anything else. I want to thank each and everyone of you.

Today another good thing happen. I received yet another call from a lady telling me that her female yorkie that she's had for the past 3 months is not working out and she wanted to know if I wanted her. She is 8 months and is a big yorkie. I told her I had the perfect family , the retired couple thats been waiting in Yorkie Rescue waiting list for a yorkie. They drove today like 1-2 hrs and came and got the yorkie! They fell in love with her.

This is the girl that was adopted. Her name is Sophie


Gen

[lmperez]

I just read in our local paper that a German Shepard was just reunited with his owner after missing for three years. I man saw the dog running down the street and took him in to be scanned and he found his owner. The dog was about 50 miles away. The dog still reconized his owner and she said she never gave up hope. They think the dog was found but know one ever tried to find his home and again he must have slipped out into the arms of this man who had him scanned.

Never Never give up! Cookie will be reunited with his family, I pray it it soon.

[orlnurse]

Can we donate via paypal to this company?

[ReesiesDad]

Those goofs....I sent it as a GIFT, and they recorded it as a Payment. Well, it's a GIFT!! Make no mistake.

[megooego]

Hey I am sorry that Office Depot ended up being so expensive.. I really wanted to help! But owell.. you found a local place that is much cheaper and you can get them up quickly, so that is really what matters.

[joeys mom]

Gen, did Cookie have very thin hair on top of his head???I stopped by a pet store locally here today, and they had a Yorkie behind a cage with plexi glass, he looked like he had run for weeks, his (looking at him from the front) left ear looked to be torn, not a fresh tear, but he also looked like he had scratches down his little legs. The lady at the store said it was the owners dog, and he was wanting to reduce his breeders and he would make a good price on him. around 200-250 but he just produced a litter of puppies, and they have sold his puppies for 700 each. If this is the case why would they sell him so cheap-also was Cookie nutured?? This guy is not. She would not let me hold him or see him out of the cage. I'm 5'1 and the cage he was in, the bottom was at the top of my head, so I couldn't see him very well. I did see the top of his head and it was very thin. I know this is probally not him, but it seems there is something up with this dog. She couldn't tell me if there were papers with him, she would have to call the owner to get the facts. And the ones that was in cages lower and I could see was in filth. They had solid wood walls on each side and behind them and the plexi glass in front. The little guy barked if you came new the cage, she said he only done this while in the cage, he was just a sweetheart when he ran loose at night. He was sitting there shaking. I wish this area had someone that would monitor and do something about a business having animals in this enviroment. But we don't, anyways I looked at Cookies pictures on you site and they resemble each other alot.

Anyways my point is, I know in Jonesborough TN, there are alot of people that own homes there and Fl and alot of Floridans travel to that location. We are just outside of Johnson City, TN which is part of what they call the TRI-CITIES and was just wondering if it would be good for me to get one of your posters with the current photo of cookie and send to the vets and groomers there. If you have something already made up could you email it to me at sdfurches@verizon.net. I don't know why I hadn't thought of this before, I guess seeing this poor little guy and thinking this is a possibility really opened my eyes that he could be in this area just as well as any other. Anyways not trying to get your hopes up at all, but it was just strange. I'm going back in the morning to talk to the owner and mabey he will let me get hold of him and I will take a photo, unless Cookie was nutured. Sharon