Wilmington Dog Still Missing One Year Later

It’s been a year Wednesday since Buddy went missing from his backyard in the Richmond Street, Aldrich Street area in Wilmington and his owners are still hopeful for his return.

Throughout the year Buddy’s owners have been searching in hopes of bringing back their beloved pet.

They are still holding out hope he’ll be home soon as Buddy has been spotted in several area towns over the past 12 months.

“I am praying for sightings to bring him home,” says Buddy’s owner Deborah Edgerly. “We certainly have been lucky to have so many sightings for months so keep us hopeful.”

If you’ve seen Buddy in the area, you are asked to call his owners immediately at 978-988-6306. Please do not call out for him or chase him.

Buddy is a 7-year-old Lab/Shepherd mix and weighed 75 pounds when he went missing. Buddy is friendly and outgoing and is wearing a collar and tags. Missing for several months he is now much thinner and very skittish. He has a very curly tail and purple markings on his tongue.

Over the past year, Buddy’s owners continued to receive reports of several sightings of the missing pooch. Here are some of them:

• In early September Buddy’s owners had two to three possible sightings of Buddy on Franklin Street in Stoneham. At the time they put signs there and did some searching. He may have moved on or hunkered down in that area. Weiss Farm was one sighting.

• In July and August, there were several Buddy sightings in Wakefield including on Melvin Street, Franklin, Water, Albion, Nahant and New Salem Street.

• In early April someone jogging at the Wakefield lake thought they saw a skinny Buddy a couple of times on the Main Street side of the lake in the midday hours.

• Buddy’s owners also followed up on a sighting in Middleton on Peachy Street off River Street behind condominiums, in the beginning of April.

• In mid March, there was a report he was seen in Lynnfield in the Chestnut Street area. In mid-January, there was a possible Buddy sighting on Forest Street at the North Reading/Middleton line near Harold Parker Forest. Buddy’s owners said at the time, the location makes sense following Buddy’s direction of travel so far.

• On Jan. 7, Buddy was spotted at the Hood Elementary School in North Reading. In February he was spotted in the Grove Avenue area of Reading.

• Prior to that when he first went missing he was seen in Tewksbury at Shawsheen and Ballard Streets, as well as in Wilmington at the North Intermediate School at the corner of Rte. 125 and Rte 62.

Again, if you’ve seen Buddy please do not call or chase him, and please call Buddy’s owner immediately at 978-988-6306.