• Wordless Wednesday: October 10, 2012

Rachel has been lost since May 2012. Please help Bring Home Rachel.

This week I'm breaking the rules for Wordless Wednesday for Rachel. Rachel is lost. She got loose when she was in the hands of a pet professional—one of the people you trust to give the highest level of care to your pets. Rachel wasn't wearing her collar or tags but she has a microchip registered with HomeAgain. She was sighted in the City of Fairfax, Virginia, by neighbors and tracked by a scent dog, and for a while dozens of people hung flyers, handed out business cards, and offered prayers and suggestions on Rachel's Facebook page.

That was in May and June. Now it's October and Rachel hasn't been sighted for four months. A lost pet expert we're working with said it best: "She's not made of fairy dust. She didn't disappear. She's out there somewhere."

Rachel was lost on May 23, 2012, in Fairfax, Virginia, just west of Fairfax Circle. (Fairfax is in Northern Virginia.) Rachel is an Australian Shepherd-Border Collie mix approximately 9 years old. At the time she went missing she weighed 46 pounds. She has a short, smooth, blue merle coat with black patches on the body and brown on her face and ears. Her eyes are brown and her tail is long, straight, and bushy.

Please go to Rachel's Facebook page. 'Like' it. Share it. Wherever you are—help Bring Home Rachel.