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South Bound interstate 85 rest area Between exit 54 and 53 Dinwiddie Virginia.

Link to Google MAP showing exact location   West side of  85 Area North of Hunnicut Road on Map.
and area North of Haven Lane and Winding Trail.
They will be hungry so please tempt them with food, do not chase them, they will run away, they are very shy and scared of humans.

 Telephone numbers to call  502-939-0266 or  609-206-5268   717 475 0900  if you see them for instructions.

Video link to WRICTV8  Richmond VA    “Rescued Dogs Escape Custody”

  Faith 4 year old Miniature Schnauzer 20 pound Grey Female. 

  Roxie is about 2 years old 8 pound tiny female Pomeranian.

This weekend seven or eight volunteers of "A Tail to Tell" were down in Dinwiddie. They canvassed homes, they had dirt bikes and rode the wood trails, the put up more fliers and passed out fliers at the churches. Monday, Cindy M went down to continue to canvass an area a bit farther out. She went door to door in the area the Animal communicator felt the dogs were in. She put up more fliers, met a surveying crew that was working in the area and handed them fliers. Tomorrow she will work an area up from the rest area on the other side. She has been back most of the country roads that lead back to many houses in the woods. This woman has moxy, she is determined to get the word out and find our dogs. If anyone is interested in helping with the search please contact Cindy, she is our contact person in charge down there.

On Sunday, the BYB that gave us Cher, Sonny and Simba surrendered 23 more dogs. They were taken to PA to a couple of different rescues. I just got word tonight that three of the cockers have mange in addition to all of the parasites, etc. She was not sure what type it is.

Update on Sonny & Cher.

Sonny was not doing well today. There is a possibility that he may have to have a plasma transfusion. Tonight will tell. I am un-nerved by the rapid deterioration of his heath. Fortunately he is in the hospital where they are taking great care of him.

I brought Cher home today. She has a number of medicines she is on. She did vomit on the way home, which was not good but I think it might have been the car ride. I will keep a close eye on her tonight. She is not out of the wood yet but she is much better.

These two will have to be quarantined for at least 21 days and possibly more. Please keep them and my pups in your prayers that all stay healthy.

Thank you all for your kind words and support.
Bonnie

Hello everyone,
Well, I am back from VA. I am sorry to say that we have not YET located Faith nor Roxy. But, I did manage to make up more flyers-and it shows the reward amount. Bonnie was there, as were Cindy Meyers and my friend Jo and I. They asked me to make up something that we could hand out to people, like about index card size. So Jo and I were able to get them made once I got to Jo's house (she is in Fredericksburg, about 1 1/2-2 hours north of Dinwiddie). I think these "cards" are an excellent idea. They are small enough for folks to carry with them and/or hang on their fridge. The very first thing it says, in big bold red letters is $1,000.00 REWARD! so that should scathe eyes! Then it went on to say $500 each dog and it has a picture and brief description of both dogs. Then it has Bonnie, Cindy and animal control officer (ACO) Alvin's phone number and says call anytime day or night. While at the rest stop, we met a lady that said she can help check traps (a vet tech I think). We drove the highways and back roads...holding our breath, and relived to find no sight of the girls there. There really is tons of woods! It's a lot of underbrush, but we carried sticks and moved things around and looked in all the logs, culverts, holes etc. we carried wet cat food and wet dog food and dog treats and cooked chicken. We walked & walked and then walked some more. We stopped at every house on those back roads and spoke to folks and we posted flyers everywhere including school & library in near-by "town". There was already stuff up from the ladies that looked earlier in the week as well. Flyers/cards were handed out to everyone, including road maintenance workers and lawn care workers. I just know that, with so many folks knowing we are looking, and with the money there to entice them, we are going to have those babies back! Even if someone has taken them in thinking they are stray-it won't be long before they see or hear that we are looking for them and we are offering a reward. I know everyone here has been checking the shelters and rescues to be sure no one has seen them/turned them in. That is a great help! Tracey's husband (PMR Freckles and Teddi's parents) is out there checking the traps daily. I believe we have managed to trap 2 cats and one something else-can't remember, racoon or something-but at least we know that that means the traps are working and the food in them is enticing. We posted on dumpsters, as we were thinking that the girls may rest up during the day, then go to dumpsters for food at night. We did the same at the local dump, and we even stayed there a little bit to talk to folks that came there to dump their trash. it is a small place, like only 3 or 4 small dumpsters, but it could be a food source and it is a place a lot of those folks probably come to so they will see the posters (someone, I forgot who-although I remember seeing the post-someone at some bodies work donated them I think) anyway, someone actually had the posters laminated, so we know they will hold up in the weather. There are some small ravines in the woods that have water in them, so we are sure the girls will be smelling the water. A lot of the folks out in those back woods have dogs. We are thinking that, normally when their dogs bark, they don't pay much mind to it because the dog's probably barking at a deer...but...now that they know about the dogs, they may pay closer attention. Whew-hang on-i don't know how long yahoo allows an email to be, so I'll hit send and continue on another email...Ruth
 

Ladies: Sunday

Yesterday I returned from Virginia. I am sorry to say without out little girls, Roxie and Faith. We put up signs, passed out flyers, we were on the local news, put ads in the newspaper, had a tracker with a dog, used "Find Toto", set live traps, contacted the shelters and local humane officer and anything and everything we could think of. We talked to everyone we saw. We searched the woods and trails all around the rest area. The ticks were unbelieveable. We were picking them off of us for days.

There is another group going down tonight and will be there through the weekend. Cindy Meyers will stay down there all next week to coordinate things, check sitings and canvass the area. The group going down this weekend will canvass areas we were not able to get to and do a grid search of the woods. Keep those prayers coming because those little lost girls definitely need them. This area is a very large rural area.

The people down there have been very kind and helpful. Some of the local people went through the wood paths with their ATVs. The one sighting we had of Roxie the people who spotted her let us put a live trap on their property and they checked it for us. Everyone we talked to was very friendly and supportive.

While we were down there when we were canvassing homes we came upon a BYB/puppymill. The front yard was high with weeds, in one corner was a sectioned off very muddy area with two cocker spaniels. In another sectioned off corner were three puppies. Running around the yard was a extremely thin poodle, cocker puppy and a little black dog of some sort. Two of our members (Jo and Cindy) went up to the house while Ruthie and I stayed at the car. The woman claimed to be a rescue but they have a number of litters of puppies in the house and the neighbors told us they sell the puppies. Jo and Cindy told her we were rescue and looking for two dogs and asked if we could help with her dogs. Jo and Cindy told her about the dead puppy in the section with the other three puppies, she said she hadn't seen it. One of the three other puppies was very sick, Jo and Cindy asked the woman if we could have the sick puppy but she said she would take it in the house. She said she couldn't give it away, it was too young. In talking with the family Jo and Cindy found out they were being evicted from their house. The woman told Cindy she could have all the dogs in the yard and some in the house but she couldn't take the puppies in the yard yet. Cindy made arrangements with the woman to come back on Sunday to get the dogs. After we left the woman called us back and said we could come get the sick puppy and the other two in the yard and she had decided to give Cindy more of her other dogs in the house. Jo and Ruthie went and picked up the puppies. Cindy and I took the sick puppy back to our hotel and Ruthie and Joe took the other two to Jo's house. They would take them to the vet in the morning to be wormed and get their first puppy vaccines. Thank you so much Ruthie and Jo!!

The two puppies are now going to be fostered by our new fostermom, Nicole. Thank you so much Nicole for agreeing to take these precious little ones. I had to name them to take them to the vet so I called them "Sonny" and "Cher". We are told they are pom mix puppies. It looks like they are mixed with beagle. They are very thin and very full of worms. They were treated at Jo's vet and tomorrow they will go to my vet to be tested for heartworms, tick borne illnesses and wormed again. Sonny is doing well but poor little Cher is not feeling well this evening, she will see the vet first thing tomorrow morning. I am attaching some pics of them.

When I think about the course of events that happened from last Saturday afternoon until yesterday I have to say it has been a very emotional roller coaster. I still have hope that we will find Roxie and Faith and bring them home safely. My one thought in all of this is that had it not been for the search for these girls we would not have found the BYB/puppymill and the dogs in that house would have probably died. There are 29 dogs that will be free on Sunday and headed back to PA. The family has very little so you can imagine what the dogs got. They were starving and being eaten by parasites. Cindy and I fully believe she would have left them there when she was evicted or turned them loose in the woods. She told Cindy that she was an answer to her prayers. The woman said she had no where to go with the dogs.

The sick puppy that Cindy took with her was taken to her emergency vet. She had to have a transfusion she was so very anemic from all the parasites. She is still in the hospital and we do not yet know if she will make it. Cindy has called her Simba. She is about half the weight of the other two and they are all from the same litter.

There is so much more that happened and later I will take time to write about it. I would like to thank PMR for all the support they gave us. The PMR board members have been there for us and helped so much. Jeanie and Joe drove 10 hours in from Kentucky to help in the search. I would like to thank all the members of "A Tail to Tell" for all the help. The prayers and the ideas you all sent were received and appreciated. Thank you to all the people that came and helped. Thank you to all of you who made calls the rescues and shelters, etc. We will continue to search and hope to get sightings. When we have a number of sightings and have them triangulated we will be able to again bring in tracker dogs to see if we can capture them. Please everyone keep up the prayers these precious girls are home soon.

THANK YOU!!
(Thank you all who emailed me with your support and kind words, it meant a lot to me)

Hello everyone,
Well, I am back from VA. I am sorry to say that we have not YET located Faith nor Roxy. But, I did manage to make up more flyers-and it shows the reward amount. Bonnie was there, as were Cindy Meyers and my friend Jo and I. They asked me to make up something that we could hand out to people, like about index card size. So Jo and I were able to get them made once I got to Jo's house (she is in Fredericksburg, about 1 1/2-2 hours north of Dinwiddie). I think these "cards" are an excellent idea. They are small enough for folks to carry with them and/or hang on their fridge. The very first thing it says, in big bold red letters is $1,000.00 REWARD! so that should catch  eyes! Then it went on to say $500 each dog and it has a picture and brief description of both dogs. Then it has Bonnie, Cindy and animal control officer (ACO) Alvin's phone number and says call anytime day or night. While at the rest stop, we met a lady that said she can help check traps (a vet tech I think). We drove the highways and back roads...holding our breath, and relived to find no sight of the girls there. There really is tons of woods! It's a lot of underbrush, but we carried sticks and moved things around and looked in all the logs, culverts, holes etc. we carried wet cat food and wet dog food and dog treats and cooked chicken. We walked & walked and then walked some more. We stopped at every house on those back roads and spoke to folks and we posted flyers everywhere including school & library in near-by "town". There was already stuff up from the ladies that looked earlier in the week as well. Flyers/cards were handed out to everyone, including road maintenance workers and lawn care workers. I just know that, with so many folks knowing we are looking, and with the money there to entice them, we are going to have those babies back! Even if someone has taken them in thinking they are stray-it won't be long before they see or hear that we are looking for them and we are offering a reward. I know everyone here has been checking the shelters and rescues to be sure no one has seen them/turned them in. That is a great help! Tracey's husband (PMR Freckles and Teddi's parents) is out there checking the traps daily. I believe we have managed to trap 2 cats and one something else-can't remember, raccoon or something-but at least we know that that means the traps are working and the food in them is enticing. We posted on dumpsters, as we were thinking that the girls may rest up during the day, then go to dumpsters for food at night. We did the same at the local dump, and we even stayed there a little bit to talk to folks that came there to dump their trash. it is a small place, like only 3 or 4 small dumpsters, but it could be a food source and it is a place a lot of those folks probably come to so they will see the posters (someone, I forgot who-although I remember seeing the post-someone at some bodies work donated them I think) anyway, someone actually had the posters laminated, so we know they will hold up in the weather. There are some small ravines in the woods that have water in them, so we are sure the girls will be smelling the water. A lot of the folks out in those back wood as have dogs. We are thinking that, normally when their dogs bark, they don't pay much mind to it because the dog's probably barking at a deer...but...now that they know about the dogs, they may pay closer attention. Whew-hang on-I don't know how long yahoo allows an email to be, so I'll hit send and continue on another email...
 

Anyone have a  LAPTOP we can use for a couple of weeks ??
It would be of great benefit if the gals in Dinwiddie had a laptop. It is imperative they have access to a blog I am in the process of setting up, which will shows a map of the area and where I will log in the time, date, and location of each sighting of each dog. It would also be helpful so they are able to access other information when they are out during the day.
If anyone is willing to allow them to use their laptop, please email me at mylilluvboo@yahoo.com

Tracy called me and she is down there now putting up fliers for the missing dogs. Her dear friend at work, Chip Pletcher donated 100 fliers

Last Sunday we hired a professional Tracker with her Two dogs a Sheppard Dog and a Beagle, sadly they were not successful.

Ruthie left last night, it will take her 5 hours to drive to Dinwiddy She is bringing supplies and should be joining in the search this morning.

I spoke with Cindy Meyers a little bit ago and there has been a sighting on the Pom. The sighting was on the other side of the freeway, from the sighting the other day. It would be a stretch to think the Pom made it from where she was spotted in the garden to the other side of the freeway, but anything is possible. They were looking for her at 11:00 tonight and will resume the same spot tomorrow along with posters in the area.

I know that us who really know the mill dogs, we all know the gravity of what is going on here. We are lucky that so many rescues and people are coming to our aid. These dogs need people that care and people that are willing to put aside what is going on in their lives, to help find them. Like Bonnie and Cindy and Jeanie and Joe Ruthie.


Please God, Please allow these poor dogs to come home to Puppymillrescue They have done nothing to deserve what is happening to them right now. Please let them experience the kind of life they should have had since the day they were born. Thank you. Cindy
 

Protect yourself from the ticks in the woods, please purchase bug spray with "DEET" and spray yourself well. Please read this website all about TICKS.  Tick identification is important.
Stay informed and safe.

Channel 8 News in VA has been playing the story on the missing dog and the reason why they are repeating the story is because people are calling the news station asking if the dogs were found.

We have to keep the enthusiasm and interest up until we find these girls. Could everyone please call the news station once a day for a few days and ask
if they have any news on the dogs. Hopefully they will keep airing the segment
The newsroom phone number is 804-330-8813

Updates Tuesday

5pm We just had a mass Phone Call Out via FindToto.com
They sent out 2,100 phone calls and messages within a 6 mile radius of where Roxy was last sighted.

We called Helioair 804-226-3400. Seems to be in the Richmond area. It costs ...$895.00 for 20 minutes time. She said the likelihood is slim that they could ever see Roxie and actually not Faith either as she said if there is dense brush (which there is a lot of) they cannot get close enough to see anything.

A very special thank you to those that donated. ( see bottom of the page )
Your donations have been used for Find Toto, the posters,
order the search and rescue dogs, and paid for Motel expenses, gas, food and the Reward Fund.
 

There was a sighting of Roxy the Pom.  She was curled up in a ball at someone's garden edge. Four of our volunteers are in the area or in the area laying out new traps with bait.

Thank you to, for their email support.
 Medha Isaacs, Best Friends www.bestfriends.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:58 AM
Subject: Best Friends Alert: Rescued Puppy Mill Dogs Lost in Transport

Dinwiddie Animal Control Officer, Deborah Dean. ACO Dean has agreed to canvass the area in hopes of finding the dogs. She is also familiar with the area as well as the areas that back up to the area where the dogs were lost.