I THINK THAT ONE OF MY PUPPY'S IS TRAPPED IN LIBYA...CAN ANYONE HELP??? I AM NOW SURE THAT THE DOG LEFT BEHIND IS MY PUPPY

[Dee Rance]

I was watching the news this morning. Something that I don't normally do. There was an article about the Libyan problem...and a couple that had gone out just last year to work..and now they have be repatriated but the Oil company that the husband was working for..

To my shock, I recognised the person that I had sold a puppy to 18 months ago, and what was even worse, is that they were saying that they had left their pet dog behind in Libya....this is I think one of my puppys...

The question that I am putting to all the people here is..

IS THERE ANYONE THAT CAN HELP TO GET THIS DOG OUT OF LIBYA???

They were apparently going to try and go to Tunisia so they could take the dog with them..but had to leave her at ''a vet'' in Libya where there were hundreds of abandoned dogs.

Is there anyone who knows of any way that my puppy can be taken to the Tunisian border, and then repatriated, Please please try, if I hadn't been looking at the news, I would never have known about this...

I know that she is no longer my dog, but I do feel so responsible for her, and thought that her home was here in the UK, I didn't know that she had been taken to such a volatile place...I am worried sick about this, dogs on the whole are not well liked in that part of the world...and I can't get hold of the people that I sold her to...

It is the not knowing that is the difficult part...

 

[Astrid Landsaat]

Dee, this is horrible I do hope that your pup and all the other pets that are left behind finally come home safely. I know this will be very difficult. I just read a diary of a Dutch lady who refuses to leave the country. If she wants to leave, she has to leave her 16 cats and 2 dogs behind. She refuses to do that! I also read something about the quarantine regulations that Sherry mentioned. The ministry of foreign affairs (NL and USA) both said that they would only evacuate people. They don't seem to care about pets!   For those who are interested, here is the link to the diary of the Dutch lady. Off course it is in Dutch but the Google translator might be useful. http://www.dagelijksestandaard.nl/2011/02/noodkreet-nederlandse-vro...

Dee, thinking of you! Keep us posted.

[Frances McKimm]

Ecole nationale des services vétérinaires

1, avenue Bourgelat

69280 MARCY L'ETOILE

mail : [e-mail]

standard : 04 78 87 25 45

fax : [phone]

The above is the French National Veterinary Service and they have regular contact etc with North Africa;

You could try contacting them, would imagine there will be someone who will speak English and they might know how to contact the Libian Veterinary Association or have names of vets there who might know something;

[Maggie Smith]

Dee

May be the people have a facebook page - you could have a look and maybe contact them that way. If they have children and you know their names they are likely to have a page. The other thiing is that Barbara Rodgers from the ISBC rescue may some ideas

I will let you know if I think of anything else

Be strong girl - thinking of you.

[Yvonne Wark]

Dee that is awful hopefully there is a solution to this problem thinking of you x

[Sherry Miller]

Dee,

  Just read a news article and mention of an Irish Setter left behind named Tally.  Is that the name of your former puppy?  Does say they arranged to leave him with a vet there.

[Cornelia]

This is awful, Dee! I hope there is a solution to get the dog out! We are thinking of you!

[lyn hathaway]

ackie and Chris Murphy

Abandoning most of their possessions and their dog Tally, the Murphys yesterday fled riot-torn Libya. Jackie, 58, and her husband, Chris, 59, took the decision to leave Tripoli as the violence escalated.

As soon as they contacted Mr Murphy’s employers, estate agents Chesterton, the pair were booked on to the next available flight home. In contrast, the British Embassy offered the couple little help.

‘All they told us was to leave by commercial means. If they had any representatives at the airport, we did not see them,’ said Mrs Murphy, a teacher at the International School in Tripoli.

The couple were also surprised to find their Afriqiyah Airways flight from Tripoli to London was less than a third full.

‘We just left with a suitcase each. It was an extremely difficult decision to make as we had to leave our Irish setter Tally behind, but it had become too dangerous, so we have left her in the care of a vet,’ said Mrs Murphy.

‘The night before we left we could hear machine gun fire and loud screams that went on for hours.’

Despite tales of violence on the city’s streets, the couple, originally from Norwich, decided to drive to Mrs Murphy’s school and join other teachers fleeing to airport. ‘We were terribly scared heading to the airport.

‘Once we got there it was complete pandemonium. Thousands of people sleeping outside in a bid to escape,’ said Mrs Murphy. ‘But we had tickets and managed to board our flight after a bit of pushing and shoving.’

I stand in a Libya on the brink of liberation. But fear still stalks this scarred land

Richard Pendlebury, one of the first British journalists to cross the border into Libya to send this dispatch

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[lyn hathaway]

dee look below found it in daily mail

[Dee Rance]

Thanks for this Lyn. I heard something smiler to this on the TV by chance, they still haven't contacted me but I am still doing my best to get her home safely I have contacted the Scottish press, and am still waiting for an answer. I have contacted a few of the vets in the Tripoli area and have also contacted people like IFAW who go into war zones (after the fighting dies down) and deals with the animals problems, also the French vet people that regulate the vets in the North African countries, so I can't think of anything more to do. please tell me.....anyone.....if they can think of anything else

[Nicole Wilson]

This is terribly tragic. I really hope that Tally will be able to get back to the UK safely.