A three-year-old Beagle named Rocky was reunited with his family just in time for Christmas after going missing for several days following a car accident.
An elated Scots family have spoken of their relief after being reunited with their missing dog in time for Christmas . Rocky, a three-year-old Beagle , ran off after he was hit by a car near his home in Dunbeg, near Oban , on December 18. An army of volunteers carried out an all-night search for the pooch before he was finally found last week hiding in a garden two miles away.
The much-loved pet of Joshua Lopez, eight, and his sister Laila, 12, shot off with bleeding paws and over the hills towards Ganavan beach after he was spooked by the car accident. The children’s mother Ailsa Lopez, 39, told our sister title, the Scottish Daily Express: 'At Christmas time we like to get Rocky a gift and put it under the tree and I had thought, it would be just awful if he hadn’t come home, the kids would have been so upset. I was at work and Laila, who was at home, had let him out, but when she came back to the garden he wasn’t there. 'He is really fast, he is like a whippet, and when he gets the scent, his nose gets the better of him and he is off.' Ailsa and her husband Donnie were phoned by a friend who had read on Facebook that Rocky had been hit by a car. The couple's older son, Kieron, 20, went out with his dad to find the beloved pooch before they were joined by crowds of local residents. The search party stayed out until the early hours with big deer lights in their hope of tracing Rocky. Ailsa is a member of Oban Mountain Rescue Team and said some of her friends in the team helped in an unofficial capacity. Team member Damon Powell, said: 'We don’t go searching for dogs as a rule, the reason we went out was that it was a team member’s dog, it was just a few friends and we just applied a bit more coordination to the search.' But by the next morning there was still no sign of Rocky. Ailsa began to think of the worst before she was phoned by her husban
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