The startled Alice
pulls away and runs off with safety reflective
vest. Then
a nerve-wracking search begins. Miraculously, the dog is found after a freezing
night.
It is the
nightmare every dog owner: The dog is startled and runs in panic for his
life. Almost every animal lover responds with a reflex. He runs after.
"That was a mistake," says retrospect Claudia Koch. "I have
Alice characterized even more frightened and she continued running." Her
dog, a mix of English and French bulldog, comes from a Hungarian breeding
station. "It served as a breeding machine and lay only in their box,"
says the Bühlertannerin. Accordingly, they had no social contacts; the
interaction between humans and animals is not familiar. When Alice runs away,
she lives only for about two weeks.
The torn canvas
out of hand
Claudia Koch goes
as so often a walk on Sunday evening on the outskirts. Alice runs quietly
alongside, it is attached to a black Flexi leash - these are a line that
automatically goes off and roll up. Near the pharmacy live acquaintances of the
chef. "But we did not expect that they sit outside and her large dog with its"
Koch tells of the decisive moment. "I have taken Alice shorter, so that
they become accustomed to and talked to her that she must not be afraid."
But it does not help; the dog is frightened and pulls his mistress the leash
from her hand. With a set Alice rushes going, turn 90 degrees off and running
toward the bus stop. "Alice, stay standing. Cars ", Claudia Koch
calls after. Behind Alice spun the canvas on the floor, flies through the air
and pounding on the asphalt.
Dog and owner run
past the petrol station towards net market. Koch sees Alice momentarily no longer;
only hear the noise of the leash. On Bushäusle the dog reduces its speed. Cook
hopes to finalize by shouting the dog to stop. But Alice accelerates again. At
a hall pass she runs across a field and walk towards Halden and fir Castle.
Koch noted that she only wears her slippers and comes out of breath. The
slender woman smiles for the first time during her story: "I thought, I
need an oxygen tent."
Afraid that Alice
freezes
The 44-year-old
calls from home the police, the duty officer connect with a "colleague who
has a guard dog." This is taken from an interrogation. "They listened
to me patiently. I was scared because of the cold. She said, because one does
not need the same worry "The policewoman in safety clothing asks:” On
what they react? ". At some point Alice hunger. She knows not that long a
walk. But should it be somewhere tangled with her leash, I'm a lifetime
accusations. "
At 23 set clock
family and friends a search. The thermometer shows minus four degrees. "It
was not clear where we could still look. And I also did hand hurt from the food
bowl shaking, "says Koch. The lorry driver is sleeping that night just
over an hour. Again and again she goes to the front door and sees if Alice is
in front of it. On Kellereingang she drops a blanket, and a scarf to remind
Alice to her mistress.
The family posting
on Facebook that Alice is missing. Even the radio station SWR3 brings a short
message. Koch still prints at night Flyer from. At 8 am it's back on with the
search. Son Steffen (24) does not want to go into work. His boss threatened him
over the phone: "Is that all so important? This will have consequences.
"Steffen Koch makes itself still with the search. Cook laughs: "The
last name I do not know to this day. But she meant it comes to search and then
stood there. "Create Kochs and their friends a plan where everybody seeks.
In the Buhler Tanner stores Info-list to be hanged. Furthermore, the local
hunters are informed. With incipient brightness many people are traveling. Koch
is surprised: "I kept asking myself: whether belonging to us? Many also
had the phone on the ear. "
Cried with
happiness
She goes back to
the place where they had the night before the search stopped - but without a
functioning flashlight. Several times, the family walked through the Buhler
Tanner district Halden. Koch is annoyed: "I hated myself. I cannot go to
work and do so as if has been nothing but "Suddenly, it has a local
resident in a combined counter and shouts:" The dog is back there,
"Koch calls immediately her husband and remembers the reunion on the edge
of the houses: "Alice was there, she was not shaking and looked at me with
huge eyes." Claudia Koch crying with happiness, the local resident says.
"Strange, 20 minutes before they were not there yet" the dog owner
wraps Alice in a jacket. Probably the Dog Safety Vest gave some warmth and
saved so that Alice's life.
