GSD Missing From Greensburg, KY - Page 1

Missing for 5 days in Greensburg, KY. His name is Max a very large, skinny, tan and black German Shepherd Dog. His current owner Cody Ray https://www.facebook.com/cody.ray.161 just contacted us as we had gave Max to him last year. Max is not aggressive and is very shy and timid as he was dumped by abusive owners which is how we first got him. He might be on his way back to us, we live in Vine Grove, KY. That's a long way from Greensburg but he is a very stubborn dog at times. If you see him or have taken him in, call my mom's cell 270-945-0575 and she will come get him. He is a sickly dog and often refuses food due to his first owners who really abused him, so he really needs to be back in his new home with Cody Ray.

Handsome boy with kind eyes. Wishing him safely back with his new person, and quickly.

Sadly no one has called and Cody has not found him or heard of any sightings either. Max was living in the country on a small farm Cody was fixing up that belonged to his family. So at this point it's looking grim as the weather here in KY has been quite bad. It's been 0 below this week so we fear he may have frozen to death and could be buried under snow somewhere. There is miles of forest out at the farm and it's a long way to the nearest house, let alone town. Poor Max being so sickly and thin would not have enough body heat to last long in the freezing cold. Also Cody seems to not even care if Max is found and also left him on his own at the farm with another older GSD while he went to stay with his girlfriend. So for all we know he could have been missing for weeks. So if Max is found he will stay with us even if we already have 6 dogs now.

Do NOT give up hope...continue to paper the area with flyers that have a good photo of Max, and Cody needs to go IN PERSON to every animal shelter within a 30 mile radius to check for himself that they haven't picked up Max. Shelters are generally staffed by volunteers who are valuable assets. but who often aren't necessarily good at identifying dog breeds if an animal doesn't look EXACTLY like whatever image they carry of a breed in their mind's eye.  It would not surprise me at all to find Max in a shelter or rescue and described as a GSD-mix, even though he certainly looks classically purebred GSD to me--you have to go and look at all the dogs in the facilities in person to ensure Max is not being held in any of them.

I have no doubt that Max will be having a rough go of it if he's out in the weather you've been having recently, but I can assure you that dogs are resourceful, and as long as he's able to scrounge up sufficient food to keep him alive, clean enough water to drink, and someplace he can crawl into or under that gets him out of the weather, he has a strong chance of surviving this experience....but the seach can't stop. As long as people know someone is still looking for Max, they'll keep him in mind when they see a dog that looks similar running loose, or even when such a dog shows up at a place where there wasn't one like that before. Get flyers out to the postal carriers who do the car delivery routes, to the UPS and FedEx drivers, to the milk  and feed truck drivers, and of course to the local animal control and sheriff's deputies, the first responders, and it doesn't hurt to ask the schools to pass the word to the kids, either--with the specific instructions that the kids tell either their teacher or their parents, or both, if they think they saw Max.

We had a Boxer go missing last year up here in NE Michigan, a dog who was already on the lean side, and had the typical Boxer coat that has no undercoat and is the opposite of 'warm'.  This dog was missing for 27 days in March, which had worse weather at that time than you folks are getting in the past week or so, and when he was finally spotted, he was literally a skin and bones, but he was ALIVE, and he recovered uneventfully from that experience.  Furthermore, the Boxer had spent the majority of those 27 days in a large field directly across the road from the house where he lived--but once dogs lose their bearings, they often become so scared that they revert to feral-dog behaviors, and won't come to ANYONE who calls to them, even their owners.  The Boxer laid low during daylight hours, and was only spotted in the early morning, just around sunrise, and early evening right after sunset. 

Don't give up on Max yet. He's counting on you and on Cody to help him get back home.  

Don't lose hope yet - I have a friend who's husband let their 2 GSD's out without their electric fence collars on, and after 2 months they just got one of them back a couple days ago. They live in the middle of nowhere and the area has had a ton of snow and down to -40 degree wind chills in the past few months, but he made it. 40 lbs underweight, but alive!

Oh, hell, I missed the part about Cody seeming uninterested in finding Max, and having left Max & his other dog to fend for themselves on the farm while he went and stayed with a girlfriend. No, that doesn't sound like someone I'd give a dog back to, either. Still, I stand by everything else I mentioned above, except now it's all on you and your friends & family to do the shelter visits and get the flyers circulated and displayed, and to replace them when they're taken down. 

Me and my mother are still trying to find Max. I am angry at Cody, but he does have a good reason for leaving Max as he has a newborn daughter with his girlfriend that he wants to spend time with. Granted he could have told us he was too busy to care for Max and given him back. The other older GSD AJ, actually seems to have become partly feral and is actually killing deer and eating him according to Cody so knowing that now it seems he and his family don't care enough about animals to be good owners. AJ is seems has been living on the farm for years. And said farm has been owned by Cody's family for years and was abandoned till he decide to fix it up so he could move there, though now with a baby he will need a bigger house as it is a tiny old farmhouse. I'm rather hoping that Max actually ran away and wasn't killed by AJ or a coyote, as they seem to also be there since AJ is also killing them. For all I could know Cody could have killed Max as he does own guns as he hunts out there. Really regret letting him go now something fierce. We are going to try and find the closest animal shelter to Greensburg and call them in the morning to see if they have him and if they do if they could hold him till we can somehow get there.

We would go to Greensburg ourselves, but KY is horrid with snow right now and most country roads have not been plowed.  We live in the country so we are kinda stuck til either the snow melts (Not very likely as we are currently getting more snow outside as I type this.) or someone finally plows the roads. (Lazy sods around here make this also not likely.) Hopefully if they do have him they will hold him intil we can come get him. Another thing that worries me is if he does end up in a shelter, the odds are it will be a kill shelter as we seem to be lacking no kills around KY. With him being so skinny from not wanting to eat they might put him down thinking he is too sick to bother with. KY is not a good state for animals in general as abuse here is high. Did you know that right now when it's 0 below and snow everywhere, people nearby me have dogs tied outside with hardly any shelter, cats, horses, cows, and other farm animals also also stuck outside in fields with no barn or other shelter from the snow and cold. Someone has horses out near by and has not even bothered to leave feed or put hay out for them and I saw the poor horses pawing the snow to try and find grass under it to eat. They are already skinny looking as is and I've been sneaking over to give them extra hay that we had bought to soak up mud last month when we had a lot of rain. And the animal curelty laws around here are so worthless that people get away with neglecting their animals all the time. That's how we ended up taking in so many dogs and a few cats as well. All but my 13 year old senior cat and our 2 registered GSDs were either dumped nearby or their former owners wanted rid of them and we took them in.

  he does have a good reason for leaving Max.....really, are you freakin kidding??????

There's about as much chance of finding this dog alive as there is finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. The best thing that could happen is that someone found, liked him, and kept him.  

Greensburg Record Herald is their newspaper for that area. You could post an ad for lost dog with picture.

Columbia ky has a shelter that gets animals from that area, also  Taylor county animal shelter in the next county over.

Your best bet is if you can get their email, send pics to them also.