Finding her lost dog may have made North Baltimore resident Dahlia Kaminsky happy today, but it was the outpouring of community support that kept her going the five days the dog was missing.
Daisy, a 9-pound Yorkie/poodle mix, went missing on Oct. 8 after she escaped through Kaminsky?s backyard fence. Kaminsky, who had moved to the Bellona Avenue neighborhood with boyfriend Scott Fisher from Patterson Park two weeks earlier, was “hysterical. We didn?t know what to do,” she said.
After posting hundreds of flyers around the area, paying for numerous ads on Craigslist, Fido Finder and Dog Detective and checking shelters in the area, the couple were still at a loss to where their dog was.
Local shops plastered glossy color flyers of Daisy to their windows. Six community association groups sent out e-mail blasts and posted information on their Web sites. The calls started flooding in to Kaminsky and Fisher offering similar stories and support.
Tom Kiefaber, the owner of the Senator Theatre, called Kaminsky on Thursday offering to post Daisy?s information on his Web site and e-mail newsletter, which reaches an audience of about 12,000 local residents. Kiefaber had seen the flyer at local bar Grand Cru.
“That just struck me, seeing this little dog and realizing that, being a dog person, how much you love these creatures. I saw that someone was really suffering,” Kiefaber said. “I just reached out to see if we could help. It was just a reflex.”
Kaminsky was reunited with her dog Friday morning, after a late night anonymous phone call on Thursday that led her to Mount Pleasant Heights Apartments. Local residents Tina Boyd and Charisse Jones had been taking care of Daisy and had not seen the flyers.
“They saved her life,” Kaminsky said. “It was totally a miracle.”
But the most amazing thing to Kaminsky and Fisher is the amount of care they felt during the entire ordeal.
“If you are a pet lover and you have a dog and they are part of your family, people jump though hoops to help you. We sort of have a restored faith in humanity with the outpour of concern from the community associations, the calls from strangers, just an incredible amount of support,” Kaminsky said. “It made us all feel a little bit better.”
