Ghost of Midnight

Cornwall neighbors rally to reunite family

Liam posted this heart-warming note to his Front Porch Forum in Cornwall, VT today…

Where to start? Perhaps the best place to start is to say Ben is home and safe. And a lot of that is due to Front Porch Forum…

Ben, our 9-year-old Border Collie, came to us in March having been the stud dog for a puppy mill is PA. He had been locked in a crate 23 hours a day for most of that entire time. He essentially knew nothing about being a dog outside of his crated world. He has been steadily learning about the wider world since his rescue. Monday night he got lost and didn’t know how to find his way back…

At 5:30 the road commissioner called and said Ben had been sighted on Rte 30. We drove to the spot, but no Ben. We went back home and, among other things wrote up a post for FPF, assuming it would be published at the end of the afternoon, as such things usually are.

Wrong! FPF published it IMMEDIATELY! Within minutes, we got our first email about Ben. Reports of sightings began to pour in and continued throughout the day.

After a short while, it appeared that Ben was operating within a fairly small area of Morse Rd in Cornwall. As we went out to explore the area and check out the sightings, everywhere we were greeted by people who knew the story and were on the lookout for Ben.

Long story short, We eventually tracked Ben [and now he’s home]. FPF was instrumental in this community-wide effort. Their quick response set a whole chain of events into motion that resulted in our famiy being reunited. Not only are we so glad to be living in this wonderful and supportive community, we are so glad that FPF is a part of it and has the capacity to really energize it in pursuit of a common goal. Thank you FRONT PORCH FORUM and thank you Cornwall!