Nicola Bulley was last seen walking her dog on January 27
A dog behavioural expert has explained why she thinks the pet spaniel of missing Nicola Bulley was running back and forth after she disappeared. Police are continuing to search for 45-year-old Nicola, who was last seen walking her dog Willow near the River Wyre in Lancashire on January 27.
Nina Bondarenko told the Daily Star Willow displayed "flushing behaviour, adding: "They're bred for hunt and retrieve, and they’re bred to flush out game, so they have to be very amenable to being handled at a distance, they have to be responsive at a distance. They were never bred as guard dogs. "Some of the bigger hunt and retrieve breeds were but these were never, they were always just jolly, intense little working dogs, flushing out game. The dog sounds like it wasn’t sure what to do."
"Unfortunately, the dog is not able to tell the police what happened." He added whether or not a dog would jump into a body of water after its owner "would depend on the individual" and "on whether the dog was trained" to do so."
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