24/04/2023
❤ - 2yrs - ❤
Well folks, today sees 2 years gone by since we went for a simple family walk in our village with Memphis and never saw him again.
We never believed for a second we would still be setting up cameras, leaving food out, searching fields and forests until dark, driving the backroads, cycling, running cross country 2 years on... but here we are. None the wiser about what happened to our special boy Memphis.
Nothing came of the recent 'sighting', our night cameras picking up the usual local widlife - I think we've done a good job of feeding the local wildlife in and around Newtonhill, Cammachmore and Chapleton - a few badgers, birds, deer, mice, cats, rabbits, foxes have all gotten a little fatter over the last 2 years and I can confindently say Crows are greedy little so and so's..... but no Memphis shaped dogs unfortunatley.
If there is one thing we would like you to take away from reading this and following our plight... it is simply to put a GPS tracker on your dog. For £5 a month you can drastically reduce the risk of this ever happening to your family... for the price of a pint there is no excuse!!
We'd discussed it before when Memphis was younger.. but always thought it would never happen to us, his recall was so good, my dog would never run away from me, my dog is too slow etc. etc. wrong. It took one small hole in a fence and he was gone. PLEASE look into getting one, even if you trial it for a month or so - there are loads of options these days and battery life is good.. they can go a good 6/7 days between charges and that would be plenty to quickly locate your dog. (search PAWFIT, TRACTIVE, PITPAT etc. Airtags are no use. Get GPS.)
Everyone is used to seeing these posts now and we thank everyone for their continued support as always. If you wouldn't mind just looking through the photos of Memphis on this page again to remind yourself of his features and keep a look out for anyone who has maybe taken in a stray either close to home or further away. You never know. (*Please note, there a couple of dogs in Newtonhill from the same parents as Memphis, so apologies to those guys as they get stopped a lot asking if it is him! sorry guys - we do love seeing Memphis brothers/sisters out and about though) Thank you for all the shares too.
Memphis, know this - we're not giving up boy and hopefully see you soon. The chicken dinners are stacking up now.
🙏🏻🐕❤️
17/04/2023 - Chapelton - st ternans church area
31/10/2022 - East Cammachmore
24/04/2022 - East Cammachmore
22/04/2022 - Bridge of Muchalls (95% ruled out)
18/04/2022 - Cammachmore
09/04/2022 - Downies / East Cammachmore
19/03/2022 - Cammachmore
18/03/2022 - Portlethen moss
14/03/2022 - Newtonhill / East Cammachmore
13/03/2022 - Newtonhill / East Cammachmore
12/03/2022 - Newtonhill / East Cammachmore
11/03/2022 - East Cammachmore dual carriageway
03/10/2021 - Bridge of Don - Westfield Park / Balgownie Park
02/10/2021 - Bridge of Don - Parkway
28/09/2021 - Mounthooly Aberdeen - lidl/George St
27/09/2021 - Bridge of Don Asda / playpark
11/08/2021 - Drumtochty Forest (low probability)
30/07/2021 - Mounthooly Aberdeen + railway line.
19/07/2021 - Aberdeen berryden crossing railway line.
13/06/2021 - Newtonhill - potential sighting at underpass at Newtonhill
29/05/2021 - Leask - potential sighting at Moss Croft Country Kennels
12/05/2021 - Chapleton - potential spot behind retirement home / building site
10/05/2021 - Chapleton - potentally heard on Chapleton trail by burn at bull field
09/05/2021 - Chapleton - potentially heard on Chapleton Trail by burn at bull field
04/05/2021 - TECA - potential sighting at the P&J live arena car park
28/04/2021 - Chapleton - spotted by farmer in fields
27/04/2021 - Chapleton - seen by workmen running through streets + farmer in fields
26/04/2021 - Chapleton - early morning at roundabout between Newtonhill & Chapleton
25/04/2021 - Newtonhill - seen 30mins after loosing him a few streets away
25/04/2021 - Newtonhill - went missing from Coastal Park.