Sahara, a brown Belgian Malinois, has been missing since last weekend.
If dogs could talk, Sahara, a Belgian Malinois from California, could spin a yarn about her adventurous 25 hours on the lam in subzero temperatures, her first time in the snow and all the critters she met — or evaded.
Sahara slipped from her owners’ hotel room Tuesday afternoon after a housekeeper mistakenly let her loose. While Sahara was beginning her adventure, it was a nightmare for her owners, Nick Hoeh and Rick Dunkle, who moved here Saturday from California.
“We’re just going off of anything we can. If we hear it, I’m out there,” Hoeh said a few hours before Lafayette Animal Control found the 31/2-year-old pooch, which Hoeh and Dunkle rescued from an abusive home.
Animal Control officers spotted Sahara in the 900 block of Greenwich Road as the sun painted the western sky pink and the shadows grew long. It wasn’t the first sighting during her 25 hours in the wild. She had been spotted at Cracker Barrel, Hour Time Restaurant and the Lazy Boy Furniture store, but each time she ran from would-be rescuers.
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