Ms Bulley disappeared while walking her dog by the river in St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire, on January 27. Her phone was discovered on a bench by the waterside and had actually just recently linked to a work call. Her dog Willow was running loose.
Animal behaviour and training expert Nina Bondarenko informed the Daily Star Willow showed “flushing behaviour, including: “They’re reproduced for hunt and obtain, and they’re reproduced to eliminate video game, so they need to be really open to being managed at a range, they need to be responsive at a range. They were never ever reproduced as guard dogs. Some of the larger hunt and obtain types were however these were never ever, they were constantly simply jolly, extreme little working dogs, eliminating video game.”
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Nina said “the dog seems like it wasn’t sure what to do” and most likely hugged a “familiar odor” by the bench. Kimberly Freeman, from dog training business City Sit Stay, included: “I understand there’s some speculation regarding the dog remaining in distress in the water. They’re normally reproduced to swim rather well, a great deal of dogs can swim naturally however spaniels are particularly good swimmers, offered what they’re raised to do and reproduced to do.
“Because they are so devoted to their owners, if there was some type of distress going on they would be really stressed and most likely attempt and help as finest they can. If they weren’t able to, there would be a great deal of pacing around, vocalising also, and if there were other individuals around they would attempt to get that individual’s attention.”
Jose Ros, from London Puppy Classes, said: “The dog – by genes – will take pleasure in going from bush to bush flushing birds, that’s what they take pleasure in doing many. As for where the dog beings in this formula, if the dog was discovered pacing up and down, most likely the dog was simply nervous as the owner vanished.
“Unfortunately, the dog is unable to inform the authorities what occurred.” He included whether a dog would delve into a body of water after its owner “would depend upon the private” and “on whether the dog was trained” to do so.
