TUCSON (KVOA) – The desperate search continues for Toni, the tiny chihuahua missing for nearly two months, after escaping from boarding and guarding at Dawg House on Stone Ave.
News 4 Tucson investigators met up with hopeful Toni owner Paola Camacho again.
At home, it looks like Toni never left. One of the first things you see when you walk through the front door is Toni’s dog bed and food and water bowl. The bed is made as if it is ready to go in, the food and water bowl is full.
But that’s far from what Paola feels.
“We took him out every afternoon for a walk. We would be there, he would run in the yard. I know this will make me look jealous, but I hate to see people happy with their dogs. Thanks to someone else’s negligence, I don’t have mine, it’s difficult, ”said Paola in tears.
Last month News 4 Tucson investigators told you how Toni escaped daycare and boarding at Dawg House while Paola was on vacation. She said she didn’t find out he was gone when she called, the daycare didn’t call her to tell her. She said almost two months later that they still had not answered her calls.
“They don’t want to have any contact with me, it just corroborates that they don’t care,” Paola said.
In June we contacted Dawg House owner Chris Manus on the phone he said he had nothing to say and hung up.
On Monday we tried to talk to him again. He hung up the phone as soon as News 4 Tucson’s Chorus Nylander identified himself.
Paola, with the help of friends, published around 200 leaflets, but recent storms have swept them all away.
“It’s like we’ve never posted anything,” Paola said.
Paola says Toni is microchipped. She regularly visits local shelters like the Humane Society of Southern Arizona without success, but the Humane Society has said she has every reason to be hopeful.
“We’ve had cases where dogs have come loose, someone finds them, never thinks about getting them scanned for a microchip, may not be on social media don’t know they need to contact local shelters for Let them know, then a month, two months, a year, three years later, this animal breaks away from it and ends up in a refuge. This microchip is scanned and we can reunite this dog with its owner. This has happened several times, ”said Michelle Kleckner of the Humane Society.
Paola has not given up hope.
“Even if you treat him well, know that there is a family whose hearts break every day that he is not with us,” Paola said.
If you have any information on where Toni can call Paola at 520-991-6428.
