A Jim Thorpe woman is doing whatever it takes to find her 16-year old dachshund that went missing last Friday.

Rose Reese, a longtime dog trainer, owner and lover, has a fenced in backyard at her home. She said that Tia, her small dog with black fur and white color on both her cheeks and legs, never got out before.

“She has some dementia,” Reese said. “She’s not blind, but she has a lot of shadow vision. She can hear high-pitched whistles, but other than that she can’t hear that well. We immediately went looking. We had some bushes in our yard that we thought she would be under.”

Rose and her family even started taking some bushes out of the yard.”

The search for Tia started immediately and continued throughout the weekend. Reese thought perhaps Tia got picked up by a hawk. Reese reached out to many people for help.

One woman helping out is Roseann Turek known as a local certified spiritual, evidential medium, according to her website. Turek went to Reese’s house Saturday night and Sunday morning to help lead the search group.

“I had a number of people still here on Saturday and they set out on foot,” Reese said. “She (Turek) actually guided them down the road from where we lived. She made a left and went down to the end of the block. She works with a pendulum where she was feeling the dog’s energy.”

Reese also reached out to an animal communicator named Debbie Bauer.

On Sunday, everyone was searching again all day and night for Tia. Reese said that Turek came back to help around 7:30 a.m. and again led the group to the same area.

“Debbie said on Sunday morning that she had a feeling that Tia was picked up by someone or taken to a shelter or vet, but that the place was further away. Debbie said that Tia was confused and couldn’t find her way back and that she was in a grassy area and was communicating that Tia could be across the street.”

A neighbor’s testimony cross referenced the readings made by Turek and Bauer. Reese’s friends were handing out fliers around noon on Saturday and a neighbor mentioned she previously saw Tia at the bottom of Reese’s yard crossing the street.

Next, Reese reached out to Sam Connelly and Pure Gold Pet Trackers, who came from Virginia by Tuesday night to help out. Connelly and her scent tracking golden retriever also solidified the prior testimonies.

“They picked up her track and went across the street from us,” Reese said. “They spent close to two hours there. It’s sort of thick brush over there. After a good two hours she brought the dog up for a drink. She then told the dog to find Tia again and she went to the same direction that Turek had led the team on Saturday. The dog laid down in a patch of grass. And that usually means that’s all the further she could go and there was no more scent. She had the dog do it a second time and the dog did the same thing.”

Reese lives on the 1000 block of Broad View Drive in Jim Thorpe and she can be reached at 570-620-7440.