Lost: Black Labrador Retriever Male In Central (CV13)

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2012-01-04 08:11 B30

Advertised in this weeks Countryman's Weekly magazine. I hope it brings some news.

2011-10-02 11:18 Unknown

So hop[e Sky will be reunited a.s.a.p with his owners.

2011-08-25 00:10 DogLostKimmybear - Area Co-ordinator, Essex & Hertfordshire borders

One day that chip will get him home. x

2011-08-24 14:30 DogLostGlynafon

Just wonder if this could be him? Dont know where this dog is now though


Reference: RefZSNNJ
Gender: Male
Species: Dog
Age: ?
Colouring: black
Date Found : 24 July 2011
Where Found : Seaview Road, Liscard
Collar and Tag Details: brown collar no tag
Description: black lab with skin condition on back full grown lab
http://www.wirral.gov.uk/wirraldogs/LostPetsView.asp?SelectSpecies=1&SelectGender=0&selectDateLost=&search=Search&foundpet=yes
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2011-08-24 10:14 B30

Sky is advertised again in the Countryman's Weekly magazine today. Always hoping that someone will recognise him and he can return home.

2011-05-08 22:10 TimCoats

thanks visionvalue; the website now lists this dog as reunited with his owner; his chest is more stockily built than Sky's and face not quite right but thanks for trying to help; I guess they would have scanned him too and Sky is chipped; Sky's owners.

2011-03-04 15:24 visionvalue

http://www.strayaid.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2540:ed524-10&catid=11:coxhoe&Itemid=17

2010-10-02 11:07 B30

Sky has been advertised recently in The Shooting Times. I hope it brings some news.

2010-09-12 19:31 B30

Thanks Liz but Sky was going grey around the face when he went lost so would be even more grey now. The found dog looks like a beauty, I hope he gets claimed.

2010-08-12 10:34 Liz Cox

I know this would be a great coincidence, but found dog 24549 looks very like this little fellow. Please check it out. Liz

2010-08-11 17:49 B30

Just checked these dogs out on the web site and they are bitches so unfortunately not Sky.

2010-08-11 17:38 B30

Thanks Thorrocks0. I'll check this out and let owner know.

2010-08-11 11:34 Thorrocks0

Dogsfriends has 3 black labs found roaming on the hills in Wales, ferral and with skin conditions similar to yours. Not sure if boys or age of them, but don't believe they have a chip scanner. May be worth a call to Lyn on 01275 873859 or look on their website. The dogs are called 'The Wild Ones'! Know its a long way from you but these dogs seem to turn up in strange places.

2010-08-11 08:07 B30

Sky is in The Countryman's Weekly magazine today. Good Luck.

2010-08-07 22:25 doglover1

Please check Dog found today ID 24485, Black Lab with Scars on back, Good luck.

2010-03-06 14:12 Laura T

I noticed this male black lab found in december, describes a 'skin ailment' and thought of Sky's scar. Not sure if you've seen it but thought I'd let you know just in case! http://www.animalsearchuk.co.uk/view_found_pet.php?id=11109  

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2009-12-13 12:06 AlisonH

That's great news Tim. Wouldn't it be lovely if you could get sky home for Christmas. Good luck.

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2009-12-13 11:58 TimCoats

Thanks for all the one-year-on thoughts and good wishes, everyone. We have had quite a strong lead this week from a reliable man who thought he recognised Sky's scar when he saw our recent newspaper advert. The location of the sighting on the NE outskirts of Leicester fits with 2 other reports in that area - one mentioned a scar (last Feb). All the latest news is on our blog. This week we are putting the word around dog walkers in the area, the park rangers, and the local dog warden. Tomorrow I will contact the 2 veterinary surgeries in the area to see if that prompts a memory (like us doctors, vets remember things like scars) and if they can put a poster in their waiting room for a couple of weeks (this was a successful strategy for getting the word around dog lovers in our own area of West Leicestershire). We're not giving up on you, Sky!

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2009-12-13 11:40 B30

At last a sighting of a man walking a black Lab with a scar!! Check out Sky's blog http://skyisstillmissing.blogspot.com/ Sky has also been advertsied over the last couple of days in the Mercury.

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2009-12-08 17:16 Shirley4Collies

FOUND - handed into Reading (Berks) vet 1.12.09. after being attacked by another dogblack Labrador type???. He is microchiped to an address in Portugal but enquiries have failed to trace owner. Poster displayed in the area have also failed to get a response.
Any information please make urgent contact with Gill or Sooz (Dog Warden Service) on either 0118 939 0251 or 0118 939 0564 (9am-5pm Mon - Fri).

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2009-12-01 22:17 Leona*

I still check Skys blog regularly - so hoping you will get that phone call you both deserve and soon xx

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2009-12-01 21:36 DogLostReynard

Still looking and thinking of Sky xxx

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2009-12-01 19:49 wickedweims

My thoughts are with skys family,Come home safe sky you are still in everyones thoughts and prayers

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2009-12-01 16:45 DogLostJayne - Founder Doglost.

1 year to the day and still looking.

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2009-11-05 08:13 B30

Message left for owner to check out these 2 Labs: http://w3.blaby.gov.uk/appl/stray_dogs/stray_dogs.php Contact 0116 272 7515
   

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2009-08-27 12:33 B30

Possible sighting. See Sky's blog: http://skyisstillmissing.blogspot.com/    

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2009-08-19 08:06 B30

Sky is in The Countryman?s Weekly magazine today. Good Luck

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2009-07-27 17:52 jnet

Reply to Possible sighting near coventry: I will keep my eyes open and ask around on my dog walks in Bedworth which is inbetween Nuneaton and Coventry. The canal runs through bedworth and is near to bedworths memorial park. Hope you get a better lead or more sightings Jnet  

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2009-07-27 16:42 TimCoats

Hi Jayne. I just spoke to Kate, who'd contacted Doglost. She described what she saw yesterday and it was off the A46 north of Leicester, near Thurcaston, and she didn't mention any vets - just said a friend had said "have you contacted doglost.co.uk". Might there have been 2 different sightings?? The dog was described as very nervous but played with their Weimeramer. She said it was possibly 2-3 years old and "stocky". This would be quite different from Sky, sadly. But the area is only 8 or so miles from us. For anyone else wanting any updates on Sky, we've had nothing since April but are keeping the blog up to date http://skyisstillmissing.blogspot.com Thanks for all your good wishes. Thanks Alfmar. Ffion and Tim

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2009-07-27 15:48 DogLostJayne - Founder Doglost.

Looking at map its feasible that Sky could have followed the canal from Market Bosworth down Nuneaton/Coventry.

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2009-07-27 15:46 DogLostJayne - Founder Doglost.

A couple sited a black lab very thin yesterday and reported it to vets who had seen feature in vet times..owner ringing to find out more..sighted between Coventry and Nuneaton.

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2009-07-27 12:54 B30

Sky was in the Veterinary Times last week.

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2009-07-05 13:21 alfmar

tim we are still hoping sky will be home with you before too much longer xx

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2009-04-20 21:51 TimCoats

Thank you to all for your continued support and messages. We can't believe that 4 months have gone by, but we miss Sky as much as ever and messages of support really do help. We still have good reason to believe he is living wild, and very timid, only 5 miles or so from here. We don't know the extent of his territory, and we don't seem to be able to attact him with food. It's very frustrating. We laid a trap but it got stolen. Phone calls are few and far between but at least when he's (if it is him) seen he looks healthy and always seems to be running, nose to the ground in typical labrador style. We've laid bits of cloth with our scent next to the food but it's only gone about 3 or 4 times (other than bits taken by foxes, mice or rats) so we've never been able to establish a pattern. Let's hope that with better weather he'll be more active, with farmers in the fields he may get sighted more often, and with time he may become bolder. Also a black lab against a green hedge is better than a dark brown hedge. We continue to pray our little boy will be home one day.

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2009-04-08 20:49 alfmar

can't believe he is still out there!!. what a nightmare this is you are living,still keeping eyes open for sky.and will bump him up on lab forums xx

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2009-03-11 21:58 Simonslady

Could this lad be sky No. 2121: CHIP AKA FLASH in rochdale dog rescue.

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2009-03-07 07:21 ritva

hoping for your labrador to come home safely, they do tend to be kind of wild and forget who they are also their name...doesn?t mean anything bad though, what about leaving something familiar, the bed, blanket etcand maybe make a path of goodies to the place where the blanket etc is...i?m helping dogs in finland for a longer time and htese ideas are helpful, you can also contact me personally ritva.juutilainen@pp.inet.fi i?m helping my dear freind in uk to find her stolen puppy muffin lost oct 2008, stolen but we will find her. best ritva

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2009-02-27 14:25 Hannah

I have added Sky's details to Lost Labs. Come home soon gorgeous boy x

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2009-02-26 10:51 DogLostJayne - Founder Doglost.

Sighted again today in the same area as previous sightings.

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2009-02-26 10:11 alfmar

sky is still in our thoughts..... xx

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2009-02-13 17:36 DogLostAngus

Fingers and paws crossed for you on this one - did the lady get close enough to see his scar ?

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2009-02-13 15:58 5canine

Please let Friday the 13th be your lucky day, the sun in out, lets also hope that Sky is out and lets himself be seen.  Everything crossed for you, come on Sky, its time to go home boy!!!

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2009-02-13 12:45 alfmar

he is still out there and that is the most important thing... we are just willing him home.... i hope so much that today is your day xx  

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2009-02-13 08:27 Sheilagh

Thinking of you today Ffion & Tim - come on Sky, let's have you back home.  

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2009-02-13 07:55 B30

Sighting of Sky yesterday evening at Twycross. A lady got within 6 feet of him. Good luck today Ffion and Tim!!

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2009-02-08 22:29 TimCoats

Thank you for so many supportive comments. It is really helping us keep going. The webcam is now off line for a while. The equipment and trap was undamaged, but we think that maybe the local poachers don't want to be caught on camera, so we will keep a lower profile for a while. We will still keep monitoring the trap - with the help of people who live nearby. Will keep updating the blogsite at http://skyisstillmissing.blogspot.com with news. Thanks everyone from Ffion and Tim.

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2009-02-07 11:05 alfmar

owners...  i am appauled that somebody could do this to you!!! don't let this bring you down.... get back up and channel your anger into the search,we are all behind you. will bump up on labrador forums...... your day will come and you will get the call you dream of. xx   

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2009-02-07 09:23 muns

Just read the blog owners set up and someone has smashed up the trapdefies  belief Owners feeling very low. Come on lad, please show yourself-too cold to stay out there.

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2009-02-01 21:39 DogLostAngus

Hooked on watching the skycam now, hope to see something of note tonight, the snow may help in tracking a dog with no human walking with it

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2009-01-27 18:17 B30

Bess n Barney's Mum, it is the bowl. It gets a bit difficult to see clearly when it starts to get dusk. Just seen some shiney eyes but the side of the trap again but they never seem to go inside!!

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2009-01-27 17:39 Bess 'n' Barney's Mum

On second thoughts I think it may be the feed bowl I can see - looks so different in the dark!  Sorry if this is a false alarm - come on Sky, we need you in that trap!

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2009-01-27 17:26 Bess 'n' Barney's Mum

Don’t want to excite anyone too much but the picture I’m getting from the webcam now is definitely different than when I saw it earlier this afternoon. It’s getting dark now so difficult to be sure but to me the trap is now shut with a shape of something dark in it?   Please Sky could it perhaps be you?   Everything crossed...please check, someone!

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2009-01-27 15:24 Poochie Freak

Have crossposted Sky's details to a few places, including the Refuge forum. Hope Sky is found safely soon.

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2009-01-27 12:05 B30

There is a new link to Sky's web cam that automatically refreshes http://dougellison.com/cam/refresh_norm.html    

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2009-01-27 08:30 B30

Sky has a big colour advert in the Veterinary Times today. He has a very distinctive scar on his back so let's hope if anyone takes him into a vet surgery they scan him.

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2009-01-26 22:56 littlehelper

Sorry to see Sky is still missing, don't give up hope Aud

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2009-01-26 19:30 B30

Thanks Alfmar. I'm hooked on the web cam because I saw a pair of eyes next to the trap last night!!!

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2009-01-26 09:21 alfmar

cross posted to labrador forums this morning. keep it up and never give up.... you'll get him back home!!! xx

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2009-01-26 08:00 B30

Another sighting plus message from owner about Sky's blog. Sue,

An update on the search for Sky:

We are having difficulty keeping everyone up to date so have started a
blog at http://skyisstillmissing.blogspot.com In retrospect we probably
should have done this earlier as it would have saved us a lot of phone
calls.

The Leicester Mercury did a great article about our search following the
press release - took up about a third of a page. The angle of "we want
to thank everyone, what a great response form the local community"
seemed to be an approach that they liked as it was a bit more than just
a 'lost dog' story.

After a two week gap another sighting of a black lab in the same area as
all the previous. The food also all went from one of our feeding
stations on the same afternoon (the first time that this has happened in
3 weeks). Having some of our dirty washing next to the food in the
kennel really seems to work in keeping the foxes away.

We have put a trap on a regular route that the black dog that we are
sighting uses (regular being about once a week!). This has a webcam on
it so we can keep it well observed (you can link for a live picture from
the blog!).

So fingers and toes crossed at the moment

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2009-01-19 08:30 B30

Well done owner for getting Sky in the Leicester Mercury!

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2009-01-17 14:05 Sheilagh

There's a big article in tonight's Leicester Mercury,   Come on Sky, show yourself and get back home  

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2009-01-06 18:51 DogLostReynard

Sky is in this weeks Countryman's Weekly...Good Luck.xxx

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2009-01-06 06:17 B30

Thanks Littlehelper. I'll look into this further later this morning. Doubt it's Sky though as there have been sightings in the area and he also has a distinguishing mark on his back.

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2009-01-05 21:54 littlehelper

 Black Male Labrador found
Pet Type: Dog
Date Listed: December 30, 2008
Area Found: Oldham (nr. jacksons pit venue) Lancashire
Young all black labrador with red collar found by some friends playing a gig in Oldham town centre.
Very friendly and seems to have been well cared for.
no name on red collar or any other identification markings.
the dog ran away and could not be found again in the birch fields area of manchester.
call: 07749124849 (Beanie)just checking national missing pets and spotted this ?  

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2009-01-05 21:30 littlehelper

come home soon Sky am praying for you Aud

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2009-01-05 10:00 B30

It looks like Sky is still around. Owner has had a number of sightings in an area about 2 miles from home. Unfortunately he is only being seen about every 5 or 6 days (last on Friday) and is running very scared of people. It is a very rural area so there are few people around to look out for
him. Local farmers and many of the local dog walkers are aware of him so just waiting for more sightings to come in. Owner is already putting scent and food down in the area and has constructed a couple of dens in the hope of getting him to stick around in one place but full scenting instructions have been sent to him.

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2009-01-03 22:01 B30

Thanks for your help furlover

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2008-12-31 18:23 Furlover - Area Co-ordinator, West Yorkshire

Am checking and looking out  for Sky  _hope he's home soon!

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2008-12-30 12:17 garthy

hurry safely home Sky p.g.xxx

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2008-12-20 16:21 B30

Sky is still missing despite a lot of publicity so he may be out of the area.  Please wherever you are keep a look out for a Black Lab with a bald patch on his back.

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2008-12-15 20:14 B30

Thanks Mizzy. Will try to find out some more details about the found dog

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2008-12-13 21:20 mizzy

just seen this not sure of were this dog was found has doesnt say but may be worth a look http://www.lostyourpet.net/RegionResultList.aspx?typeid=3&genderid=&colourid=&ageid=&town=&lfstatus=1&countryid=1  

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2008-12-07 11:40 B30

Sky is still missing. There have been no sightings since the day he went missing but there is a search going on for him today.  

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