a family finds their dog 100km from home, seven months after his disappearance

A dog missing for seven months near Mont Ventoux was brought back to the Manosquine Animal Rescue and Protection Association at the beginning of November. A true miracle that the owners did not expect.

It's a story worthy of an adventure novel. Ola, a six-year-old Jack Russell, ran away from the small village of Bédoin, located at the foot of Mont Ventoux, the first weekend of last May. Then follows a big panic among its owners who will struggle.

Searches around the home, announcement on social networks, everything is done to find the little dog. But Ola remains nowhere to be found… Until November 2, when Johanna Fidero, the owner, received a phone call from the Manosque Animal Rescue and Protection Association.

“I didn’t believe it”

The volunteer on the line tells him that the chipped dog was found on the side of a road by a couple and identified using the national i-cad identification file.

“I didn't believe it, I was shaking. There was my daughter nearby who started crying with joy. It was really unexpected,” she confided to BFM DICI.

Ola was found near Manosque, almost 100 kilometers from the small village of Bédoin. “We assume that she was stolen from in front of our house. People must have wanted to keep her without having her identified and I think that Ola managed to escape from her new owners,” explains Johanna.

The day after the good news, first thing in the morning, the family headed to Manosque to look for Ola.

“We were afraid that she wouldn't recognize us. But as soon as she saw my husband she gave him an exceptional party. And today it's as if she had never left. It's really a very nice gift because we no longer believed at all that we would see her again one day”, rejoices Johanna. A real Christmas story before its time, just the way we like it.