Here's the saga of those missing airedales: Subject: Two Missing Airedales - Gone But Not Forgotten]
Such highs and lows - in the life of any committed dog lover - from BIS at Montgomery Kennel Club Sunday to a Monday nightmare where a handler returning home is involved in a deer dodging accident - rolls down a deep ravine - splitting open the top of a high top van - 10 dogs spilling out of breaking crates and tossed by Interstate 79, Exit 40 - the seat belts incredulously saving the lives of the handlers - holding them in their seats as the van rolls and is totaled. Our two Airedales Nic and V-Rod, our Harley son, and a Wire run loose. The Wire was hit and died almost instantly, the other seven dogs are miraculously caught, but the ambulance comes and picks up the handlers with one of them in more worrisome shape than the other and have to leave the two Airedales Nic and V-Rod behind. Somewhere loose in the vicinity of Exit 40. News of the lost Airedales traveled fast. So many show and rescue groups, from near and far, try to give information on how to help, to do something, anything to help and to inform - should a miracle or the inevitable be the result. Our caring National Club members, a local Great Dane member of the West Virginia Kennel Club, a local acquaintance of a Houston Dalmatian Search and Rescue person, we can never thank all of you enough for the prayers and cares. Locally, there was Valerie ready with the Heart Traps. After trying to piece together some of the crates, the five Schnauzers, one Husky and one Chesapeake that had been found, they were taken to the local fire house and to Bob's Muffler Shop where his wife Marina, who is with the Volunteer Fire Department and helped at the accident also helped Kris and got the message that the first Airedale was found dead on the Interstate near the accident. She helped Kris retrieve the body, as there is no dead animal retrieval service available. The body was indistinguishable, they knew it was an Airedale but not which one. Finally, they came upon a warm V-Rod one mile away near Exit 41 with no obvious injuries. So, maybe he had been hurt in the van accident with possible internal injuries. Marina helped Kris get the bodies back to the shop near her house as Kris couldn't bring himself to leave the bodies. Finally, it was over, actually ending what could have been an even more harrowing experience for us, knowing the dogs were in the rugged woods during hunting season, injured, shot, coyotes, who knows. Marina waited till Kris got a hold of us to agree to let her bury the Nic and V-Rod and the little Wire in her back pasture where she had buried her pet horse last week. She told Kris she knows how to bury them deep. So our little guys are caringly buried in Ivydale, West Virginia in case we go to Montgomery via Sutton on Interstate 79 someday. For the concerned that were involved, the receptionist at the Sutton Lane Motel, all the helpful Internet relay "teams", the AKC dog clubs, our own ATCA rescue and other organizations. A thousand thanks. The young men and the dogs that did survive are lucky to be alive. We hope that Kris and Mason and the surviving dogs will soon recover and go on. Kris loved his charges and they loved him. Without our dog-loving handlers a lot of us couldn't show, or breed as objectively as we do. Please feel free to post the sad outcome to any list or persons that you think would like to know. Forever, In Memory of our V-Rod and Nic. Carol Scott and Forbes Gordon ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
