Dog Running Loose - Hillsborough/Lake Deaton Area 5/5/16
 

On the run --- Approx 12 lb. Brown & white male Chihuahua named "Chewy" escaped from owner (Nathan) at City Fire Brownwood earlier today. Volunteers have been tracking & attempting to catch "Chewy" to no avail. He is FAST! Please report sightings to WVLG radio station, Community Watch or the Facebook group "Lost Pets of The Villages." You may also contact Nathan thru City Fire Brownwood.

Chewy was last spotted at 10:20pm on Fellowship and Usher Place in Village of Lake Deaton.

Any help looking in these areas tomorrow would be appreciated - he has worn us out in the past 6 hours...

Bring Chewy Home...
 

Need all of you dog lovers help in keeping this post visible at the top while we are out searching. We will update Lost Pets of The Villages FB page as well as TOTV...

Latest sighting this morning...

New Moon- Iveywood heading towards Infinity Run, Village of Hillsborough

Thanks for doing this.

Hope the catch him soon!

Chewy
 

This is Chewy!

Best of luck. Susan and Angie: Thanks for your involvement and compassion.

Ttt

bump for Chewey

Any recent sightings? We are on infinity and have been out a few times looking.

Still on the run -- last known sighting Village of Dunedin
 

Chewy continues to elude those who are trying to help him. When we last saw him yesterday (Friday) around 5:30pm, he was running with a limp. Could be injured from car strike or just raw paws from running so much. ( I'm walking with a limp myself from cutting between houses, across golf carts and up and down in preserve by Druid/Hillsborough).

Our plan now is to wait for next sighting and send one person to set trap with food (no, it won't hurt Chewy) in hopes he's hungry & will settle down.

Please if you see him, call one of us or Community Watch...

Bump for Chewy.

I feel bad for Chewy and bad for the devoted folks looking for him but the jury is out on the owners. They didn't have him leashed?

Our old boy Barney would stop and freeze in the middle of leaping over an object if we told him to freeze like a cartoon. He took off on us once when he was a pup and we put him in intensive training...military style. Best thing we ever did for ourselves and especially for our now 85lb Boxer. He lives to please and lives the life of Riley. If the law of the land say leash then that's what it will be for the old boy. I feel bad for Chewy & his owner. Hope good news is forthcoming.

Sighting This Morning (Sat)
 

Sighting of Chewy this morning off Charlotte Ct. Village of Sanibel/Charlotte area. We didn't get a call -- I checked with Community Watch and they told me of sighting two hours later :/

Trap was set near the last place he was seen -- limping like he was injured. PLEASE if you see him call one of us or when you call Community Watch or WVLG radio please ASK that they call one of the search team so we can move trap to that area.

Chewy must be hungry now and getting weak with his bad leg(s).

Hang in there little boy... We just need a break to get you into care.🙏🏻

I walk 5+ miles daily in this area. Will look for Chewy whenever I am walking or just out and about.

If you do see him... Please do not try to chase him, don't look at him or acknowledge hm in any way. He WILL bolt! Just calling his name... he WILL bott!

Please call Susan at 1-504-329-7335 IF you can't reach her, call me at 1-815-370-9115 (Susan should be your first point of contact, as she is working the trap) so she can move the trap if needed. We have learned the hard way, that by trying to catch him... only moves him to a new area and we need him to stay in one place so the trap will work.

I won't even go in an area that I know he might be. He knows me now and bolts when he see me.

Now in Charlotte - Sanibel Area
 

Joyce: Chewy moved from Hillsborough yesterday evening and this morning was seen in Sanibel/Charlotte area. Keep an eye out - he may come back your way at any time.

Susan

Will do. Best of luck.

No Sightings of CHEWY Today (Sunday)
 

Checked the trap early this morning in Village of Charlotte -- no Chewy. (Thankfully no other critters either). We have picked up the trap until we get a new sighting.

The radio station has had NO additional sighting calls, nor has Community Watch. I'm getting worried that he is hurt worse than the limping we witnessed, or possibly too weak to run. Please check around shrubbery, open garage doors, etc. for the little fella.

He is 1 year old and is a brown over white Deer Head Chihuahua, which is a variety I had not previously heard of.

Thank you all for staying vigilant & for keeping the post visible.

Susan

I am so worried about Chewy. He must be so dehydrated and hungry and scared.
I keep hoping that I'll read some good news. Poor little guy. :pray:

Bare, wouldn't he eat geckos and find water in places like a kitty would?

The places with water in the Villages often have gators and snakes. Geckos are kind of hard to find.

My dog Beau was out on the street in the Crystal River area before a dog catcher snatched him up. He was quite a bit thinner than he is now. I believe he picked up the habit of eating his own poop when he was lose. He either got abandoned by a family in dire straits of some kind or escaped from some his owners.

I do hope Chewy is OK.

Our kitties find a gecko almost every day in the screened in lanai. Water outside from sprinklers if they would lick droplets off leaves.

Trust me Gracie -- neither man or beast should drink from sprinklers or retention ponds here. As my doctor told me when I first moved here and accidentally drank from a non-potable source "Ma'am, we have sewage in the water here!" One that consumes that water will quickly dehydrate - from BOTH ends...

North of 466 has regular water in sprinklers. Just trying to find some hope for the little one. Our kitty survived for eight days without obvious harm all alone.

If Chewy is injured, he may be resting under bushes and not on the hunt for food or water.
I sincerely hope that Chewy is soon spotted, and that he is hungry enough to fall for the "live trap" trick.
I hope that his journey ends with a happy conclusion.

Sighting
 

I just received a call that Chewy was spotted in the Charlotte/Sanibel area. About an hour ago

Please don't chase or call... Just keep us informed as to where you see him

Susan is going to try to put the trap down again as soon as she can get there.

We don't want him scared. We need hi to stay put.

Please advise if you see him

That's great news. Good luck capturing Chewy.

I've been out walking the area again today~ have not seen Chewy, but will watch out for him and read your posts on here. I have WVLG's phone number in my cellphone. Fingers crossed.

Another Trap Set in Charlotte
 

Chewy was resting under a palm for about an hour -- until someone drove up and chased him prior to our arrival with the animal trap. According to the kind resident that watched him, Chewy's back right leg is VERY swollen and he's limping badly.

When Sumter Animal Services opens at 9a tomorrow, I'll work with them on additional proper trap placement.

Thank you all for the phone calls, emails & words of encouragement as we trek on to find Chewy. And thanks for helping keep this post visible...

Sorry to hear about Chewy's limp. Maybe, that will slow him down and keep him in a safer place.

I believe this is the dog I saw on Highridge ( Village of Charlotte) on Sat. I called the radio station and Community Watch.

It Was Chewy on Sat.
 

Yes, it was him and we appreciate you calling it in - it was a big help. He had moved from Dunedin to Sanibel/Charlotte overnight. Please continue to call Community Watch with sightings -- please don't chase or even stare at Chewy or he will bolt.

More traps will be set in the area today.

Susan

Good luck catching Chewy.

Once in a while there will be a dog at Doggie Doo Run Run that does not want to go home. I recall that Grace took to putting a 15 feet or so leash of Billikins because of the hours a few days before it took to nab Grace's dog before she could get home. And it sounded like she had a golf cart as well as a few men chasing Billikns in a 5 acre enclosed field at Doggie Doo Run Run.

I had leaped on Billikins' 15 feet leash a few times before as well.

OhioBuckeye
 

Good luck finding him, but I hope he doesn't get to thirsty & goes to near the ponds or a coyote sees him. :22yikes:

Chewy caught.
 

Susan updated!

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