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On April 18, 2024, Mari Carmen and Víctor lost their dog Mota, a 9-year-old white greyhound with a microchip
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Very soon, they began to suspect that the loss had resulted in a deliberate theft and their only goal was to find the animal.
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Ana Francisco, the reporter who lives with 10 greyhounds: “Either we take them in or most of them will end up dead in February”
Exactly, it has been 301 days since Mari Carmen last saw her dog , Mota . Mota is a 9-year-old white greyhound who, following her powerful hunting instinct, had “escaped” from her home more than once to go to a “wasteland where there are rabbits” in front of the house, located in the Alicante municipality of Crevillente . Fortunately, she had always returned on her own, until that fateful day when she left and never returned. When they realized that the animal was not at home and, after waiting a reasonable amount of time to see if she would return, her owners, Mari Carmen and Victor, went out to look for her.
It was then that the neighbours began to tell them that they had seen the dog in the Barrio de la Salud y el Ángel, where an unknown man told Mari Carmen to “give her up for lost”. There, aware that “greyhounds are dogs in high demand for hunting and competitive racing”, she began to think that Mota’s disappearance had resulted in a “deliberate theft”. And, since that afternoon of April 18, 2024, she has not stopped looking for her, without rest, comfort, or respite:
“I’ve been moving heaven and earth for almost 10 months now”
“I’ve been searching heaven and earth for almost 10 months now , contacting all the people and organisations I know in the 17 autonomous communities of Spain and, still, I have no news of Mota. It’s as if the earth had swallowed her up ,” said Mari Carmen, on the verge of tears, in a new interview with Informativos Telecinco web. During all this time, and thanks to the collaboration of so many people who have been there for them, Mari Carmen and Víctor have received several alerts about what they thought could be Mota – who can be identified thanks to her microchip – but, in the end, no.
While we were looking for Mota, we helped rescue three greyhounds and we kept one of them.The only positive thing they have taken from their great loss – although they have no intention of giving up – is having rescued three greyhounds very similar to their own during the course of their search: “We were notified that there was a dog in Valencia that could be Mota and, although it wasn’t, in the end we adopted her and we kept her. Her name is Lola. They also called us from Carmona, where there was another very similar greyhound. I even called a rescuer to go get her but, when we touched her and saw that she didn’t have a chip, we knew it wasn’t her. I know that she now has a new family in Germany. The same thing happened to us with another greyhound that was wandering around the street and that they had called Golosa. Her new owner has told us that, through us, Mota is helping many dogs in need ,” she said, visibly excited.
When she found out that Seprona had dismantled a greyhound trafficking network in Zamora , she hoped that her dog would be among the rescued animals. But that was not the case. And, for this reason, this courageous owner has resorted to the press to publicise the search for Mota, whose disappearance has caused her profound sadness. Despite her pain, and asking herself questions every day such as whether “Mota is ill or well, whether they have taken her abroad or are hiding her nearby”, Mari Carmen will not stop looking for her until she finds her.
