‘Best day of my life’: Bella the dog found after escape from Saskatoon groomer

Bella, the Saskatoon canine who went missing from the groomer connected Friday, was recovered connected Tuesday afternoon.

Once she was found, her owners said she was taken to the vet to marque definite she was steadfast aft being extracurricular successful the acold and snowfall for astir 5 afloat days.

“Bella is doing well. She’s inactive a spot exhausted — similar each of america — but (she) is refamiliarizing herself with location precise quickly. Her carnal wellness is mostly good,” Andre Fournier said.

“She mislaid 2 pounds, has a tiny spot connected her pad that was missing and an abrasion connected her backmost leg.”

But she is wide successful bully wellness and is blessed to beryllium backmost with her family.

Tamara Fournier was told Bella was spotted heading up Spadina Crescent by a pistillate named Patty Paul, truthful Tamara got successful her car and hurried over.

“There are truthful galore sightings that weren’t her that I was losing hope, to beryllium honorable with you,” Tamara said.

“My mornings for the past 5 days would commencement disconnected ace hopeful. Like, contiguous is the day. Today we’re going to get her. And past arsenic the prima goes down and that upwind picks up and it starts to get dark, you conscionable consciousness this dread.”

When she got to the location, Bella was inactive obscurity to beryllium found, but this clip they could spot her paw prints successful the snow.

They followed them to what Tamara described arsenic “an older, astir historic-looking house, benignant of similar a compartment from my memory,” wherever her ma got down and was capable to telephone Bella implicit and seizure her.

“My ma conscionable said, ‘I conscionable enactment my look down and started singing Hallelujah,’” Tamara said.

The household and the groomer had been retired each time searching, adjacent offering a $2,300 currency reward for Bella’s harmless return.

Many radical crossed Saskatoon helped successful the hunt and the outpouring of enactment online was “overwhelming and substantial, and I truly anticipation that that portion successful that assemblage keeps thriving,” Tamara said.

Tamara had radical from different provinces and adjacent different countries reaching retired to her to assistance successful immoderate mode they could.

“Christmas is my favourite clip of the year. It wasn’t the aforesaid without her. All I wanted for Christmas was her. And I told my husband, I said, ‘You know, marrying you was the champion day. But today, contiguous is the champion time of my life.’ And helium takes nary offence — it genuinely is for him too,” Tamara said.

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On Friday, Bella was enactment down a obstruction successful the groomer’s bureau and watched the bureau canine sneak nether the obstruction and escape.

Bella followed suit and a lawsuit successful the store opened the doorway and Bella made a tally for it.

“(The grooming staff) rushed arsenic accelerated arsenic they could. It was a literal substance of seconds. The groomer was coming astir to scoop her arsenic accelerated arsenic she could. And the pistillate held that doorway unfastened truthful wide she conscionable went running,” Tamara said.

The Fournier household stressed that they bash not consciousness the groomer is astatine responsibility and are truthful blessed that the groomer helped them hunt – adjacent spending much clip searching for Bella than they did.

“We’re thankful for the consciousness that was dispersed to this groomer and immoderate of the changes that needed to be. We’re not present for a witch hunt. We emotion her. We’re inactive going to spell to her,” Tamara said.

She added that the groomer paid for each the thermal drones, offered the reward and was helping screen immoderate costs of the hunt for Bella.

Tamara expressed that she was “in this nightmare” and is relieved that the nightmare is implicit and Bella is location safely.