My Service Dog

Delayna, Gabe, and a friend was in a bad car accident in Beaumont, TX on Thursday, 11/08/07 when Gabe disappeared. Delayna and her friend Tim went to the hospital and Tim was hurt pretty badly.

The hunt was on for Gabe and people were so nice to help us get the word out. The Beaumont Police Dept. was looking out for him as well as a few very nice ladies.

The first day, Curtis (Dog Daddy) drove me, Molly and Nate to Beaumont to see if Molly could pick up a scent. She worked hard all day and she picked up a scent and drug Delayna's mom, Diana and me for miles, but no Gabe. Curtis combed the neighborhoods talking to people and no one had seen him.

Delayna's Grandmother, Dorothy went to pick Delayna up and bring her out to see us when they got into a wreck! Someone hit them from behind and Delayna ended up in the hospital AGAIN! She was released that night.

The next day Barbara and her three-legged hound, Annie went out again. Annie led us around the same areas that Molly had but the scent was 48 hours old and we gave up at dark - downhearted.

The next day Diana and and a group from her church combed other subdivisions, She was also on the phone for three days talking to the police, news media, newspapers, family members, and keeping up with Tim's condition.

Gabe was on TV as missing and we just knew that we had to find him with all the media and so many people looking.

As days went by we all grew more worried but did not give up.

Tuesday, almost a week later, the call came from a lady named Melinda saying that she believed that she has our dog!! Her husband Cable found him on the road and knew that a Standard Poodle puppy had no business running the roads.. They lived many miles from where he was lost.

She went on to say that they knew he had to belong to someone special because he was so well trained and in an e-mail she wrote: "We are still amazed how a trained service dog would come into our lives so abruptly, I mean that just doesn't happen every day. And being that my 10 yr old son has been having petit mal seizures since he was about 4 or 5 yrs old it just makes the whole situation/event extraordinary.
It was interesting how Gabe interacted with Tyler. He was all around friendly with all of us but what caught our attention was when my son Tyler had an episode and Gabe stood next to him as if he knew something was special about this dog."

So, Gabe is back with his family, we are all sleeping better at night and happy to have our baby back.

Thank you to everyone that helped and prayed for his safe return.