SY ou lyf is stukkend geloop en sy pote is rou, maar laat Donderdagmiddag was hy weer \u2018reg\u2019 om sy mense-ma te volg \u2013 al is dit hinkepink teen \u2019n slakkepas.<\/p>\n
Dit is nou Koos van der Merwe, die geliefde \u2013 en nou ook bekende \u2013 langbeen fox terrier van Kaap St Francis, wat op Vrydag, 29 November sy pad byster geraak het. <\/p>\n
Na \u2019n dertien-dae lange soektog is hy meer as 100km van sy huis op \u2019n plaas in Kareedouw gevind. Moeg, honger en ontwater.<\/p>\n
Etta van der Merwe, mense-ma van Koos wat onverpoosd na haar beste lewensmaat bly soek het, glo dat iemand hom gesteel het. Volgens haar het hy in die omgewing van die Loerie-dam ontsnap, die pad tot by Gamtoos gevat en daarna tot by Kareedouw gestap.<\/p>\n
Die seer l\u00ea vlak in haar o\u00eb: \u201cNovember is \u2019n baie moeilike maand vir my: nie net is my man twee jaar terug in die maand oorlede nie, maar een van my katte is vroe\u00ebr deur \u2019n muishond gebyt en is die volgende dag dood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Koos en Dolf, ook \u2019n vierpoot-fami-lielid, is die Vrydagoggend saam met Van der Merwe na St. Francisbaai waar hulle vir haar in die bakkie gewag het terwyl sy vinnig \u2019n internet-kafee besoek het.<\/p>\n
Die venster was halfoop.<\/p>\n
Met haar terugkeer, het Dolf die omgewing rondom die voertuig ver-ken, maar Koos was skoonveld.<\/p>\n
Sy het dadelik onraad vermoed: \u201cKoos is \u2019n bang hond en het nog nooit voorheen op sy eie die bakkie verlaat nie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Die groot soektog het dadelik begin.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk het tussen al wat leef hier rondgery en foto\u2019s gewys en belonings aangebied, maar Koos het spoorloos verdwyn,\u201d s\u00ea Van der Merwe.<\/p>\n
Later is die hulp van Susan Rae Fox van St Francis Animal Rescue ingeroep. Sy het die boodskap binne minute op sosiale media geplaas, waarna die hulpkreet soos \u2019n veldbrand versprei het.<\/p>\n
Koos is vier dae later in Loerie gewaar, maar pogings om hom te vang, was onsuksesvol.<\/p>\n
Op 6 September het hy sy opwagting op die plaas van Justin Moolman in Gamtoos gemaak, maar hy het weereens sy redders ontduik. H\u00ed\u00e9r het hy tussen neus en ore verdwyn. <\/p>\n
Nie eers \u2019n vier-dae lange soektog met \u2019n hommel deur John Dyer en sy seun, Sean, van Ajubatus Foundation \u2013 \u2019n nie-winsgewende organisasie in Amerika met \u2019n kantoor in Jeffreysbaai \u2013 kon Koos opspoor nie.<\/p>\n
Maar verlede Donderdagmiddag, omstreeks 16:00, het Van der Merwe \u2013 in sak en as, gereed om moed op te gee \u2013 die \u2018wonderwerk\u2019-oproep gekry: Koos is in Kareedouw gevind.<\/p>\n
Kareedouw-inwoner Ryno Carelson en sy twee dogters het op sosiale media gesien dat Koos op \u2019n naburige plaas is en het dadelik in hul voertuig gespring en hom gaan soek \u2013 na hulle vir Van der Merwe gebel het.<\/p>\n
Hulle het hom binne \u2019n japtrap aangekeer en met sy mense-maat her-enig. \u201cKoos was so bly om my te sien,\u201d s\u00ea \u2019n dankbare Van der Merwe. \u201cHy het my dadelik in my gesig gelek, iets wat hy nooit doen nie. Hy is al agt jaar oud en is deur \u2019n kwaai beproewing.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy innige dank aan elkeen wat met die soektog gehelp het \u2013 hetsy jy op en af in die strate gery of geloop het, \u2019n boodskap gestuur het of gebid het.<\/p>\n
\u201cDit was \u2019n hartroerende ervaring om te sien hoeveel mense omgee, dat hulle \u2019n hart vir \u2019n vreemdeling het.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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