SOUTH LOOP — The search continues for Minnie, the South Loop pup who escaped from a doggie daycare in the course of the night time final month.
The 8-year-old combined breed Labrador broke free at 3 a.m. Feb. 16 from her room at Pups Pet Membership, 1332 S. Michigan Ave., opening the door on her personal and making her means via the foyer earlier than exiting via an emergency door.
Proprietor Laura Less complicated promptly put a name out on social media for assist. The “Discover Minnie!” Fb group has since swelled to 1,800 members, all maintaining their eyes peeled for the lacking canine.
Minnie weighs 30 kilos and has a black coat with white fur on her stomach. She has white on three of her paws, and one black paw. The canine has no collar, however she is microchipped.
Less complicated looked for the Labrador over the weekend with the assistance {of professional} scent hounds, who traced the pathways Minnie could have taken. Based mostly on ideas and surveillance footage, Minnie could be on the Far South Aspect across the metropolis limits, Less complicated informed Block Membership.
A silver lining in Less complicated’s seek for Minnie is how she and different volunteers have been capable of rescue different lacking and endangered canine, she mentioned.
“We rescued two of them yesterday. I used to be strolling and simply noticed a pet in some reeds, and we have been capable of get that one. All of them are both at rescues or with fosters proper now. I don’t suppose any have been reunited with house owners simply but,” mentioned Less complicated.
Less complicated mentioned with the ability to assist different pets in want motivates her to maintain religion that she’ll be reunited together with her beloved pet.
“Now we now have precise goal details about instructions, versus her being wherever, however in fact, the route is simply type of out of the town,” mentioned Less complicated. “So there’s numerous hope and much more to do.”
Less complicated mentioned she’ll quickly share the main points of the subsequent “Discover Minnie!” canvassing occasion.
Anybody with info that would assist in the search can name or textual content Less complicated at (410) 960-1516.
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