Kindness of strangers praised after missing dog has happy ending
LOCAL PEOPLE COME TO THE AID OF DOG OWNER SEARCHING FOR HIS PET
A man living in Enniscorthy has praised the kindness of local people who helped him find his beloved pet dog after it went missing.
Ron Bridge, from Carley’s Bridge, spoke to this newspaper about the events that unfolded on Monday, February 4, involving his 15-year-old jack russell, Vino.
While out walking by the Boro river, Vino decided to go for an adventure of his own and despite the best efforts of Ron he was nowhere to be found for a number of hours.
‘He lived with me in Thailand for eight years and also in the UK for five years and then having travelled all over the world he got lost in Enniscorthy,’ Ron told this newspaper.
Obviously, overjoyed at having his fateful friend back safe and sound he said he walked the road near where he went missing but couldn’t find him.
‘I called into the shop in Tomnalossett and the staff there were fantastic,’ he said.
‘ They told everyone who came into the shop and then a lady out driving came back to the shop and said she had spotted him,’ he added.
‘About three hours later as I was walking along the road a car pulled up and a lady asked me was I the man looking for a dog and there he was sitting in the front seat of her car.’
For Ron the kindness shown towards him in his efforts to find Vino is something for which he will be forever grateful.
‘ Those people could not have been kinder,’ he said.
Unfortunately, he doesn’t know the name of the lady who returned to the shop to say she spotted Vino or the woman who took him into her car.
‘ The second woman even took him to the vet to get his chip read but because it’s a UK chip it still didn’t lead them to me,’ he said.
‘ The vet said she should take him back to the area where she found him and that’s when she saw me walking along,’ he added.
‘I was just walking down the country road looking when she stopped and I just thought how kind of her.’
While Ron hasn’t yet got to thank the women who helped him, in person, he has made a donation to a local animal charity as a way of expressing gratitude for their efforts.
‘It’s just my little way of giving something back for the kindness they showed me,’ he said.
‘Everything about just showed the good side of people and the kindness of human nature,’ he added.
‘I was lucky to have such good people around here.’