She also has moxy. And Oliver thinks she looks foxy.
$2,000 reward for missing S. Phila. pup
By GLORIA CAMPISI
Philadelphia Daily News
campisg@phillynews.com 215-854-5935
Roxy, the little lost dog from South Philly, now has a following online.
Roxy’s owner, Capri D’Amario, says that after posting an alert and Roxy’s picture on her MySpace page, she’s gotten nearly 1,000 hits on that Web site alone, as well as questions on another site about the continuing search and the little dog’s welfare, D’Amario said yesterday.
Roxy, a Brussels Griffon-Maltese mix who is 3-years-old, champagne-colored and weighs about six pounds, escaped July 30 from a South Philadelphia kennel where D’Amario had left her July 20, when D’Amario took her mother and grandmother to the Shore.
There is a $2,000 reward for Roxy.
Portia Palko, the proprietor of the kennel, Central Bark, at 29th and McKean streets, says that she suspects that because Roxy is so tiny, she somehow managed to squeeze under a fence. The fence has been strengthened, Palko said yesterday. She said she’s never had a problem before.
According to D’Amario, Palko’s husband had told her Roxy spent most of her time in the back office because “she was so small she was sneaking under the fence from the little dog play group to the big dogs.”
Palko is helping with the search. “I hired a psychic for her who does really good work with lost pets,” she said.
“The general consensus” is that someone in the surrounding neighborhood “has taken in Roxy,” Palko said.
D’Amario, 26, a realtor, said that she is especially concerned because Roxy has significant medical problems and needs a prescription diet.
D’Amario said that most people who have posted on MySpace and phillyblog.com are local.
Among them is a friend who posted this message: “For you dog lovers out there, imagine coming home and hearing . . . nothing, silence . . . and not knowing whether your dog is even alive. My friend is in total anguish.”
“They are praying for me. Lots of them came to the door-to-door search” that D’Amario conducted on Tuesday in the neighborhood of the kennel.
“People that I never met before showed up, and even made and printed their own flyers.”
