sweet baby sassy is still missing. it has been one of the longest weeks in my life. this little bunny doesn't even belong to me but i've become so attached to her while spending countless hours searching, knocking on doors and hanging missing posters. i've cried, spent many nights awake and almost lost faith that we'd find her alive, but there is a huge shining light at the end of the tunnel. it's truly amazing, and here's why...
we've used two rather unconventional methods in searching for sassy. the first being an animal communicator. meh? yes, a person who communicates with animals. telepathically. i will be the first to raise my hand and say i didn't know how much i believed in those types of abilities but i do believe that there are people who are more sensitive to the needs of other living beings. i see it every day with my fellow animal rescuers, there is an amazing power that connects humans to animals.
i don't know how it works nor do i really care how this person was able to communicate with sassy but being told she was still alive has been enough motivation to continue to work as hard as we have to find her.
so, do i now believe in people who can literally communicate with animals? i don't know. it's never something i've thought about before nor come in contact with. i will say the idea of being able to talk to my animals is very appealing even if it's simply to know that they are happy. but this isn't the purpose of my blog entry.
the second method we've used is a dog tracker. there are dogs specifically trained to search for lost pets. seriously. we didn't know if this would be a shot in the dark because it's rained so many times since sassy disappeared. and we found out before the search that "yukon" has never tracked a rabbit before.
i will say this time and time again, animals are amazing. yukon found and tracked sassy's scent. how did we know she was on sassy's scent and not a wild cottontail? well, pieces of sassy's blanket was hidden all over the neighborhood and yukon had no problem finding them. lots of cottontails did take off running when yukon snuffed under bushes, but sassy's trail led under a fence that backed on to private property. the search had to be temporarily put on hold.
i spent the day knocking on the doors of the people who owned the property where yukon indicated sassy's trail led. we have permission from an entire street to bring the dog back tomorrow to do searching beyond that stupid metal fence.
we are so excited to go back tomorrow with yukon and complete the search. i KNOW we will find sassy.
