Ghent family Versompel from Drongen lives on a cloud. For two years they had without a sign of life of their dog Boemer, who has just disappeared. To them last week on Friday phone got: Boemer was rescued from the hands of a breeder in West-Flanders. The dog is still under the impression, but again at home.
may 1, 2017. The family the day will not soon be forgotten. “Suddenly it was Boemer gone,” says Steve Versompel. “Just like that, from our garden. We understood nothing of, and start searching. Driving around, talking to people, searching on the internet. We got a lot of tips, to in Eeklo even, but they led never to Boemer.” Daughter Amber (9) dreamed still of her dog. “I also thought that I Boemer once had seen in the car. But it was a pussy.”
Today, Amber and her dog fell back. Last week Friday, called namely LostDogzzz, a volunteer organisation who search for missing dogs. They had Boemer, along with four other dogs, found at a breeder in Pittem. The story was finally clear: the dog was stolen from the garden of the family. “We believed the first time”, says Nancy, the wife of Steve and mother of Amber. “There was, “again?” someone who Boemer had found. In Pittem still, after two years.”
Second dog
But it was, however, Boemer. Trembling in a corner, until he the voice of owner’s grandma Rina heard. “He recognized me right away,” she says. “He is on my lap, jumped, and since then not gone away.” Boemer is still anxious, and is fiercely emaciated. “What he experienced, we will probably never know,” says Nancy. “And that is perhaps better also. I don’t understand how people’s dogs do such a thing to. But the most important thing is that he is back. We can not believe it still.” In the meanwhile, with Boemer be better every day.
After the disappearance of Boemer bought the family another dog, Snoepie. The two animals since the return of Boemer wonderfully match. “Or they can live with the shared attention?”, it sounds with the family. “Sure. We are with many, so we can also a lot of attention.”