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Post by Emma on Dec 8, 2010 17:34:39 GMT -5
Hoping Harriet manages to find her way home, or at least to safety.
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Post by cranfordlass on Dec 8, 2010 17:53:58 GMT -5
Praying for a safe return for this little lady - come home soon sweetheart x
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Post by owl on Dec 9, 2010 10:59:18 GMT -5
The sighting was not of Harriet, but we have had another one reported which may well be. Will update as soon as we know more.
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Post by lindajane on Dec 9, 2010 15:10:52 GMT -5
I do hope this girl is found soon. Our thoughts are with her and her family
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Post by kizzeysmum on Dec 9, 2010 16:31:07 GMT -5
continuing to pray for Harriet and her family
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Post by franjan on Dec 9, 2010 17:18:46 GMT -5
Keeping everything crossed xxx
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Post by owl on Dec 11, 2010 2:09:35 GMT -5
Harriet's mum is still trying to get hold of the lady who had the other sighting which does fit in with the info which we got from Wispa's trusty nose yesterday.
We know the route which Harriet took to the bypass because there are 2 witnesses who actually know her and saw her belting along. Wispa has found the route she took after she was clipped.
Harriet originally went across the bypass and was clipped on the north side, then vanished up the bank. We went round as close as we could get to that point, which meant driving up an icy farm track full of potholes, and Wispa was then given Harriet's coat to smell. The trail had got a bit broken up due to snow beginning to melt but she picked it up from lumps of snow and it led back down the farm track to a junction. Harriet had thankfully not tried to cross the bypass again but taken a road which went under it. This would have taken her back home, but at some point she crossed over which put her on teh wrong side to take the correct right turn at traffic lights. Instead she headed left out of Deepcar and seems to have spent some time at a fishery, which makes sense as there are shelters there which don't have doors. We happened to arrive at the same time as the guy who looks after it, and he took my number. But then Harriet turned back towards Deepcar, and I couldn't track further as Wispa was starting to get stressed and lose concentration. She had done well keeping her nose to the trail when there was traffic whizzing past but it was getting too much for her, and the trail back to Deepcar ran alongside a busy main road.
But we know more than we did, we know that Harriet did get back to Deepcar though where she is now is another question.
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Post by franjan on Dec 12, 2010 16:57:38 GMT -5
Well done Wispa Hope Harriet is tucked away somewhere safe and warm, and Wispa is able to find her very soon
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Post by owl on Dec 16, 2010 6:16:18 GMT -5
We have good reason to believe that Harriet is holed up the woodlands behind the water treatment centre and the Georgia Pacific paper mill on the road out from Deepcar to Sheffield. Her mum Lesley is recovering from a foot op and isn't allowed to drive for another week, and of course can't be on her feet all day. She does have a couple of friends helping her but if there is anyone in Deepcar area who could help out with either a search on foot or driving Lesley about she would be very grateful.
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Post by mimimouse on Dec 24, 2010 6:05:51 GMT -5
any news on Harriet ?
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Post by bhowell on Dec 24, 2010 6:41:52 GMT -5
only just seen this we live in Penistone will drive further Deepcar way for walks and keep an eye out for Harriet hope she comes home soon bless her. Also will keep looking this neck of woods in case she has made her way this way as we go on lots of rural walks with our hounds. Belinda
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Post by owl on Dec 26, 2010 5:23:03 GMT -5
We got back to Wharncliffe Woods last week, where we had to give up the week before due to thigh high snow, and followed a scent well frozen into snow up on to the Trans Pennine trail, then down along the back of the Georgia Pacific paper mill, then up again through the woods and finally along a footpath westwards to join the Oughtibridge to Grenoside road then down the road back to Oughtbridge. Farms in area are aware and the 2 empty farms have been searched. Could not track further as it was impossible to take a traffic-hating dog along an icy road with no verges to speak of with cars whizzing past. I could not have managed the 2 hrs of tracking through snow and ice in the woods if I hadn't had a friend to co-handle Wispa who pulls like a train when she is on a scent. I am hoping that someone may have picked Harriet up along that road.
Thank you Belinda, much appreciated.
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