Bracco Italiano - Jacob

[gsdlover4ever]

I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, but here goes.

it has been cross posted from another forum, and their owners are so desperate to find him - I have just recently read that a lab bitch went missing - the owners did EVERYTHING possibly to find her - however sadly they got a call that there is a golden coloured dogs body found at the railway - so that’s why I am posting about this boy - the more people that know about him the better.
I would hate to be in the situation!




I wonder if I can ask you for your help to find our missing Bracco Italiano Jacob, who has been missing since 21st January 2009, some 6 weeks ago now in the Saffron Walden Area (CB11)

Jacob went missing on a walk after chasing deer, and has only been vaguely sighted twice since.
We as his owners are desperate to alert people to him being missing, purely in case you should see him in your area, or just by going about your day to day business.

Jacob is a very distinctive, rare breed dog and therefore hopefully all the more easily spotted.
At this time we are unsure if Jacob has now found his way into the wrong hands after his initially being lost, and therefore we are emailing further afield his normal area.
We are hoping that as he is microchipped he will be found through that should he get to a rescue centre, but we are now being told that not all centres (especially the smaller volunteers centres) have scanners ?
Or some do not scan too well. We therefore have taken to emailing everyone/every relevant forum we can possibly find to show them Jacob, and ask that keep an eye out just in case.

We would be eternally grateful to you if you would pass on display the attached poster, or pass to anyone and everyone you feel could then help pass it on themselves.
The internet is a fabulous medium for spreading the word, and we hope that through it we can gain back some vital information as to where Jacob is.......
We are heartbroken that we haven't been able to find our lovely boy despite much time and effort spent looking, we are absolutely desperate to know where he is and won't rest until we find him.
Anyone wanting to follow our search we have set up a blog at
Where is Jacob our Bracco ?

With much Thanks in advance for any help you can offer, we just have to find Jacob.
Shelley & Jon Haggerwood
Mobiles 07828 671550 07986 881060

[Beki]

hope they find him soon!!

x x x x

[LOVEGSD]

Oh no, they must be going out of their minds with worry - I hope he's found safe and well soon...xx

[gsdlover4ever]

an update!!!!


Dear Friends,

We have reached 6 months without our gorgeous boy......

It's been a while since I got in touch, but so much has been going on lately.
Today I feel is a good day to remind you all about Jacob STILL being missing.

We have endured, as some of you will know, a 2 month search over at Welwyn Garden City after a woman supposedly saw Jacob with a man she vaguely knew, walking him round Stanborough Lakes.
He had apparently acquired this dog from Gypsies, the lady was very convincing indeed.
Something about this lady didn't quite fit, but keeping the saying "keep your enemies closer" in mind, we 'befriended' her in the hope that something would come it, and she may well have led us to our dog.
After a whole lot of time and effort, too many weekends, days and nights travelling a 2 hr round trip to search, built up purely on hope, we had a call from the police stating that the lady (I use that term very loosely) had been arrested on serious fraud charges.
We were in her sights, being 'groomed' for fraud.
We went to her sentencing a few weeks back whereby she was jailed for 4.5 years, (sentence was much more but stupidly, each runs con-currently nowdays) she having duped £100,000 from elderly and sick cancer patients. She herself purporting she was terminally ill with the same disease.
Another huge blow for our search for Jacob.

Our last insult was knowledge that recently a lost pedigree dog was found prior to being ready for being neutered at a reputed dogs home, it had been in the care of this large organisation for some 7 days and had gone through the hands of many.Thankfully it was re-scanned by the vet there before the op and a chip found for it's owner.
This not unusual I know, it can happen, but this dog had been in the care of the shelter for a week, during which time Doglost volunteers (DogLost) had been there at their fundraising weekend, displaying the missing dogs posters loud and clear.
Staff even checked the dogs listed during the day.
This same dog was in their care all the time.
This really worried us as you can imagine -
Could Jacob have gone through a rescue and rehome procedure, maybe his chip isn't scanning ?
Could he be listed as a cross breed/hound/pointer mix perhaps ???

PLEASE, PLEASE IF YOU ARE A RESCUE ORGANISATION, CAN YOU CHECK YOUR REHOME RECORDS TO ENSURE A CROSS-BREED WITH JACOB'S COLOURING, BUILD, OR LIKENESS HASN'T GONE THROUGH YOUR REHOME PROCEDURE

I know this is probably exceptional circumstances, and I am in no way knocking the fabulous work the rescues do, most of them on a tight budget, I am just very frustrated to read and have phone calls about this sort of thing happening and wanted to ask for help.
I hope you understand this from our point of view, knowing you would, put in our position, do the very same, we simply have to react by doing something pro-active.

Thank You so much for reading this far !
Thank You even more for taking time to check your records, or dogs currently in your care.

We will find our lovely boy, we just have to.
We cannot and will not rest until we know what became of him.
He was part of our lives for 3 years, and we owe him this search to bring him home again

THANK YOU


Jon & Shelley
Where is Jacob our Bracco ?

[LOVEGSD]

So heartbreaking to hear he's still missing....I wish him a speedy return home soon...xx