Tucker, the small dog that went missing from his groomer two weeks ago, was seen again.
His owner, Lindsay Puffer, received a call by a man who saw him on Saturday night while walking his dogs in the Forest Lawn neighbourhood. That’s the first sighting of Tucker since the day he went missing.
“Potential sightings without me laying my eyes on him, it’s never 100 per cent,” says Puffer. “But it sounds promising.”
Tucker, an eight-year-old Pomeranian-poodle cross, went missing from his grooming appointment on Nov. 27. He was dropped off around noon and was put back into his kennel when his grooming was complete. The latch was not secure.
Tucker escaped when a deliveryman opened the front door to the business while someone else opened the doors to the room where the dogs were waiting, and Tucker ran out.
There were reports of a small dog running along St. Albert Trail that afternoon. Another sighting was reported by a woman who saw him running down Sunset Boulevard near Sterling Drive at 5 p.m.
Puffer since went out with a professional dog tracker but no luck was to be had. Now that he was seen again, she is hopeful that she can find him.
“He was about 10 feet away and (the man) was quite sure that it was Tucker,” she says. “And it sounds more like him, if he was scared and skittish.”
Puffer says the man did not recognize Tucker when he saw him Saturday night but recognized him on posters the next day. He called her and she went out to search the area but did not see Tucker.
She will now hand out more pictures of him in Forest Lawn. But she also asks that people keep an eye out for her missing pet in neighbouring areas, such as Akinsdale.
If someone sees him, she emphasizes not to call him by his name, make eye contact nor chase him, as he is in survival mode and very scared. They can call her at 780-886-4916.
“We don’t want to spook him so he leaves that area,” she says. “The best thing is to drop food and let him follow you until you can get him in a yard or a closed-in area where he can’t run away anymore.”
