It's a dog's life at Bullswool

When Bullswool Farm Park's two miniature Jack Russell terriers Digger and Specs went missing last Thursday an exhaustive search of the Karangahake farm began.

"We figured they had gone down a rabbit hole while hunting and got stuck," Bullswool Farm Park owner Sue Austen says. Days went by, and the dogs didn't appear. "We rang neighbours, had it announced on radio and spent hours going to every corner of the farm, searching and calling."

By Tuesday morning they had almost given up hope; they'd been missing five days, which seemed too long to be able to survive in a rabbit hole, she says.

"We began to have suspicions that perhaps they'd been stolen, as they're very friendly dogs who would jump into anyone's car. As awful as it sounds, in some ways we were hoping they'd been stolen, as at least it would mean they were alive." MORE>>