Dog Psychics Called In

According to news reports, about 12 psychics have now joined the hunt for the missing show dog, which has now been missing for a week...

Although a tipster claimed to have seen the whippet around JFK Airport a few days ago, the dog hasn't been spotted since. However, droppings consistent with the 30-pound whippet's were found Monday behind an airport cargo building, and so there is still reason for hope.

The dog's owners have posted a reward of $5,000 for her return.

But each year, dozens of dogs and cats are lost and found on Kennedy's 5,000 acres, which stretch from the busy parkways in the north to Jamaica Bay's marshes in the south.

The lost dog problem at Kennedy became so bad that about five years ago, Bobbi Giordano set up a no-kill animal rescue shelter called Bobbi and the Strays in the airport's Cargo Area C, which is across the short-term parking lot from the terminals. It rents space at the airport and shares a building with the airport's pet hotel, which charges by the day and the pound, and a stable for horses being shipped by air.

But for Ms. Giordano and her workers, Vivi is merely the airport's fourth lost dog this month.

"We feel terrible about this show dog, but honestly, lost dogs are nothing new to us here," Ms. Giordano said yesterday. "In fact, it's the reason we set up here in the first place."

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