Maggie missing

I don't know how to tell my readers that it's happened again. Just after a joyful event something dreadful happens. This blog was meant to cheer its readers. But under the circumstances I  don't know what else to do. Maggie in our thoughts and Maggie in our talk. Forgive me,readers,I can't think of a general topic.

Maggie has been missing for 2 days. We searched all over the place and asked others to search too. She has just disappeared without a trace. Just after she was let loose for her usual rounds, she ate her favourite dish - the cat's rice and left. Luckily the cat was not around. The cat is now a mother and so attacks (used to attack) Maggie ferociously. I don't know how Maggie was with other cats but she was always tolerant of this one. I don't know of any enemy of Maggie apart from this cat.

Nowadays the municipality takes dogs only to sterilize them and send  them back. But Maggie is not there either. Either she has strayed into other dogs' territory and been chased elsewhere by them or more likely still, some human must have kidnapped her.
Friendly dog and beautiful, they must have thought. To them it's just that. To us, she's family. A companion and friend  to my daughter and Terry's right hand. After his mother's death, he started opening up only after Maggie's intervention. She was his pacifier with other dogs. Together they formed a team as leaders of all the dogs of the street.

To us she was different from all other dogs we've seen because she had a strange way of saying, "bo-oo meaning "glad to see you". Shake the dog biscuit bottle and we would get a boo-oo," how nice to eat it". To some it might sound like the  baying of dogs. But actually, this call was unique. We keep running to the door every time we hear an imaginary boo-oo. I keep consoling my daughter, at least she is safe. Whoever took her must have liked her that much, will look after her well.
 Till she gets the chance to run away and surprise us again with a boo-ooo at our doorstep.