After a 9-day community-wide search along the Colorado River that involved over a dozen people and cost about $6,000, a 50-pound, 18-month-old Labrador husky named Meadow was reunited with her owners.
Meadow went missing from the Onion Creek area April 25.
Initially, the couple and the people they were with, who were visiting from Tahoe, California, called and whistled for Meadow and looked in the general vicinity, assuming she would come back quickly — but she didn’t. “The community of Moab showed for us up big time … tons of people just came out and volunteered their time — I can’t even begin to say how much it meant to us,” La Fein said.
“She’s walking towards us and our initial thought was to call for her and when we called for her, she turned around and just ran. We chased her, we lost sight of her, saw her again then lost sight of her again,” La Fein said. Experts explained to La Fein and Carraway that once dogs are lost for around 24 to 48 hours, they “kind of lose sight of who their owners are and they get easily scared by people.”
The spot was about nine or 10 miles from the campsite Meadow initially ran away from. La Fein and the rest of the group then headed to the area to search on foot and in a kayak.
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