Lost dog

I was in the Flathead Valley a couple weeks ago, July 16-18, and had a run of bad luck, as you could say. The long and short of it is that as my vehicle broke down and was getting looked at by family and friends there in Whitefish on Sunday evening the 18th.

I chose to go to a grocery store on the U.S. 93 strip to get a few things for dinner for those who were trying to get me to Missoula to sit for my state board exams on Monday morning the 19th. As my 8.5 lb. "toy" Australian shepherd Tana waited paitently for my return, she was harassed and tormented by some teenage boys outside the store.

At some point after the boys were done tormenting my dog, Tana leaped from the truck and started running — in a town she doesn't know.

Fifteen minutes had gone by when I returned to my friend's truck and found the back slider of his full-size truck open and my cattle dog nowhere in sight. Tana would at worst be sitting right in front of the door to the grocery store. No Tana.

The evening continued when I heard this story of these boys torturing my little dog, who wasn't hurting anyone. The story came from a grocery store employee who later told me that my Tana was fortunately not with those boys who where torturing her, but in fact they had realized it had gone too far and had started chasing Tana trying to catch her.

When this little gal's manager from the grocery store came out looking for her, the boys split and this little angel had my Tana cornered in someone's yard when the manager told her "to get back to work, it wasn't her problem."

Well, maybe it wasn't and perhaps it was. As I was a customer in his store, he never made an announcement. In fact, to this day I have never been able to actually meet him face to face. My kids and I go up repeatedly to find our signs of our lost/stolen little dog, who has two kids and a single mom waiting for someone to do the right thing and please give me back my little Tana bananna.

I continue to get closed doors, and I'd really appriciate it if you have any information on this little toy Austrailian shepherd Blue Merle with bright blue eyes and a Harley Davidson bandanna on, we would sure appreciate it.

Andrea Bunnell

Whitefish