Vivi the show dog is still missing. I realize that sentence is kind of like the old Chevy Chase gag on “Saturday Night Live:” “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!” But the truth is the truth and the truth is Vivi has yet to be found after eight months.
Something about Vivi captured the imagination of many people in many different places. Psychics were brought in to get an mental fix on where Vivi might have run. Volunteers are still searching for Vivi in Queens, N.Y., where Vivi escaped at John F. Kennedy Airport.
Most of the hope to find Vivi alive would have to be sparse if the dog were a missing person. But Vivi isn’t human. Vivi is a show dog and is probably worth quite a lot of dog biscuits. Someone who saw the news about the missing dog probably found Vivi and took it into his or her home.
A number of possibility exists as to motives why someone may be keeping Vivi. Dognapping doesn’t seem likely after this length of time. Someone selling Vivi does seem like a distinct possibility. The person or persons who took Vivi in may be animal rights extremists and oppose the use of dogs for shows. There too is a chance that someone found Vivi and either didn’t know about the missing dog or didn’t care for whatever reason and decided to give the dog a good home.
The final possibility that I see is Vivi making a trek back home. Dogs have known to travel great distances to go home and stranger things have happened.
Nonetheless, Vivi is not forgotten and if the dog is never found it may very well end up as a canine version of the Amelia Earhart story ripe forever with legend and lore. As for me, I would like to see a happy ending for the wayward pooch no matter what the scenario.
P.S. I forgot to mention that while I was walking this morning, I passed a man who was walking his large poodle and was reading to it. I’m not sure what the reason for this was exactly. Perhaps the poodle will write a critique of the story and how that piece was delivered by its companion. Different strokes, folks.