Reading of the Week: Finding Beaujolais

12 days ago, I received a frantic phone call from Lorance Pasco. Her new dog, Beaujolais, had run off while she was visiting a client. 

Beaujolais is a young dog. He was rescued from a hoarder in Oregon. He is afraid of people and most other dogs. He had lived with Lorance for two weeks before he embarked on this adventure. 

Lorance had done everything right. She'd made up a thousand flyers, and had plastered them all around the Capital Hill neighborhood in Seattle. She'd contacted everyone she knew. She put up an ad on craigslist. She called animal control and checked the shelters.  Beaujolais had been microchipped and she knew that the microchip company had her information. 

He'd been gone about a week when Lorance called me. There had been sightings, but Lorance kept missing him. She was starting to think that she'd never catch him. She was worried about his condition. 

I tuned into him. He was in a park. He was scared that somebody would catch him and take him back to his first home. I said "Don't worry. Nobody is going to take you back. You need to go up to people so that you can get back to your new home."

He was quiet when I said this. I said, "You remember Lorence?" I sent him a picture of Lorence. 

I felt him warm up a little. "Yes. I like her."

I said, "Well, she's still looking for you. She's going to find you. She needs you to go up to people so that they can help you get back to her." 

Beaujolais liked that. He was slightly surprised that she was still searching for him. He said he'd try to go up to people. 

I twittered about Beaujolais, and throughout the next week, I checked in with him every day. Sometimes he was hiding behind some garbage cans. Sometimes he was in the park. They tracked him up to the Seattle Arboretum. 

He told me that he was finding food and water. He tried to go up to people, but then it occurred to him that they might keep him, so he reverted back to hiding in the park. 

One day, he told me that he had been finding food behind a restaurant, then running by the orange building and back to the park. 

Throughout, Lorance and I talked, and she went from hope to despair to just plain exhausted. She continued her search for Beaujolais. 

Then, on Tuesday, she got a call. Somebody had spotted him. She ran down to the park where he had been spotted. 

Lorance saw Beaujolais up on a hill. He saw her. They both froze. 

She said, "Beaujolais!" 

He leaped into the air and ran down the hill and jumped all over her, crying and whining and licking. Then he went home and rolled all over her bed. 

She has since fitted him with a GPS collar! 

Comments

[Lelo]

I'm so glad to hear Beaujolais was found!

[Maura]

That is so sweet. I'm happy to hear he was found and that Lorance persevered in looking for him.

[Ming]

yay!!!!