A rather stressful couple of days...

Thursday was a really busy day, had Gemma and Joy coming up after work...Gemma was coming to look after my dogs for the weekend while Joy and I went up to Heathers in the Scottish Highlands to get Wren mated to Bond. As well as packing stuff for the house move next weekend and my Nan's funeral on Friday morning there was a lot of stuff to sort out before we left but we were pretty well organised; what none of us had counted on was Squirrel doing a dissapearing act!! I think that was one of the most stressful evenings/nights of my life...the weather was horrendous...cold, wet and windy and she was just nowhere to be seen. She's not one for wandering and is a real 'home bird' so I was sure someone must have picked her up. It would be nearly 30 hours before Gemma finally tracked her down. Having rung all the kennels, dog wardens, police, vets etc Joy and I had set off up to Scotland and left Gemma looking for her which was a real wrench but common sense said it didn't need 3 of us to sit and wait for news. We were driving up over Rannoch Moor when we finally got the news that she'd been found...what an enormous relief!! It was as though we'd left our hearts and minds back in Treales 'til that point and it was hard focusing on where we were going and what we were doing. She'd been picked up by a girl that worked at the pub in our village and taken back to her flat in town, thankfully one of my neighbours had seen her pick Squirrel up else I don't think we'd have got her back. That had been my biggest worry, she's such a friendly and well behaved little dog, someone could be tempted into keeping her. It turned out that I had loaded her into a top crate in the van with Teal and Drake then gone back in to get the others, she'd climbed over the partition (as only a little terrier could!) into Mac's crate next door and hopped out of that open door and gone for a little nosey round the village...I'd driven off without even realising she wasn't in the van!! A valuable lesson learned and thankfully a happy ending. All credit to Gemma for tracking her down...you're a total star mate, can't thank you enough :)