Bodhi was last seen on June 30 being taken into a red vehicle in Waikino.
The owners of a 5-year-old short-haired German shorthair pointer-heading dog cross called Bodhi are troubled after no trace of the dog has actually been discovered almost 3 weeks after he got loose and was gathered by individuals unidentified in a red-coloured vehicle.
On the last day of the school term, June 30, in the riverside settlement of Waikino, Bodhi, who was using a blue coat, broke his collar and went walkabout from Abbot Rd after being frightened by severe weather condition.
Bodhi’s owner Sheree Dunlop said he was “seen by a local resident in Victoria St (they posted on Waikino’s Facebook page at 3.33pm that day) with a photo of him in his coat outside their property”.
Dunlop included that Bodhi was “there for a while – they were going out so didn’t do anything with him. As they left home, they saw Bodhi walk down Cadman St towards the Waikino Station Cafe.”
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Shortly after, Bodhi was seen on State Highway 2, and a lady on a bus to Tauranga published on Facebook that she had actually seen a dog using a blue coat as she went by.
“Bodhi was seen by two separate people (one a local vet who was in traffic at the time) getting into a red car not long after this,” said Dunlop who thinks he was gotten around 4pm.
” Traffic had actually slowed since of the dog on the roadway, ” included Dunlop- “there was a black SUV/ute (heading towards Waihī) that stopped and a person from that vehicle was trying to herd Bodhi off the road. Near the Waikino Station Cafe, a red car travelling towards Paeroa stopped, the person got out, opened the back door of their car and ushered Bodhi in. We believe the red car then turned around, facing back towards Waihī. The people in the two cars did communicate with each other at some point during this.”
“I was heading home from work at around 4.45pm when my daughter called me asking where Bodhi was, ” said Dunlop. ” As soon as I got home, I checked the Waikino Facebook Page and saw the original post. We searched until late that night and started early the next morning with Facebook posts and calls to council, and the pound. “
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Information about sightings then began to trickle in, and Dunlop said initially, she thought the driver(s) of the red car may have kept Bodhi for safekeeping over the weekend or until vet surgeries opened on Monday, and were possibly unaware of the Facebook posts.
“Come Monday, when we heard nothing we thought maybe it was because the weather was so terrible, the kind people looking after Bodhi didn’t want to go out to the vets that day, ” said Dunlop.
The trail has now gone cold.
Dunlop said she can confirm Bodhi was “definitely picked up by people in a red car near the Waikino Station Cafe. We believe that car turned around and headed back towards Waihī. We have seen some security camera images from the Waihi Mobil service station but without a good description of the red car or the black vehicle. There are council cameras etc in town that could be of use to us.”
“Police are aware. We have to consider him stolen now it is been too long for them [to have] just been keeping him safe off the road.”
Dunlop has actually made a benefit available to anybody with details that causes the safe return of Bodhi.
Bodhi is desexed and referred to as primarily all-black aside from a whitish star on his chest and a little white goatee/milk moustache. He is high and lean, weighing around 30 kgs. He was using a blue coat, however no collar at the time he went missing out on.
“He is a really kind, gentle, well-behaved and well-loved dog, ” said Dunlop.
“ Someone knows about this. Let’s get Bodhi home.”
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Information regarding Bodhi’s location can be shared to [email protected]
