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Well, we lost Tootsie last night. She just slipped quietly away during the evening after turning down her dinner for the first time in her life. A vibrant and joyful girl, Tootsie was happy every day of her life until the very end. Happy and bouncy at 3pm, quiet and not eating at 6pm, gone in the wee hours. I wish they could all go that way.

Destiny is in surgery today and we’re not telling her until tomorrow. Tootsie was Destiny’s junior handler dog. Destiny put a group placement on her when Destiny was 11. The timing here is not good. But we don’t get to choose these things do we? If Tootsie had a theme song it would be somewhere between “Ode to Joy” and “Shine on You Crazy Diamond”. Our house will be a lot emptier without her.

Jonette

Steve Gillespie has written a fourth article about the Errol Search Mission for the Meridian Star.

Destiny is back in the hospital.

Sadly, Jonette and Amber must return home today and they will be doing so without Errol.

Errol’s son Pharaoh along with his owner Toni, Toni’s sister Michelle, and Toni’s 4 year old wolfhound, Caesar, have come to help the Errol Search Team. With a poster reading, “Have You Seen My Daddy – He Is Lost”, the newest additions to the team have been at Petco with the handouts showing the community what an Irish Wolfhound looks like. The hope is to not only raise awareness of Destiny and Errol’s story, but to help limit the number of calls from people seeing smaller dogs.

We got an early start again today, waking up at 4:30 a.m. Started with the usual driving around the area of the last sighting hoping to catch him on the move at the break of light and in the cool of the morning. This was followed by stuffing mailboxes in the area with our handouts.

Another long day of searching for us in Meridian, MS.

Yesterday after Destiny was released from the hospital, it was decided that Donna, Destiny, Amber, and Patience would stay the night in a local hotel to get one more evening and morning to search for Errol.

Destiny was released from the hospital this afternoon.

Larry Emory, from Lonoke, AR drove in late last night to help search for Errol.