COOPER’S ODYSSEY
After his original owners handed him in to an animal rescue charity, Cooper the Golden Retriever was adopted by Nigel Fleming, a photographer from Dungannon in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, as a companion for his other dog, Molly. However, Cooper’s transition to this new life was not smooth. “I was just about to get the dogs out of the car on their leads for their first walk together when Cooper bolted. He literally jumped over Molly, prised the car door open enough to get past me and ran for it,” Fleming said. “It was a disaster. The poor boy had no idea where he was… I tried to chase after him but he was gone in an instant – so then the search was on.”
Fleming could not find Cooper anywhere, so he enlisted the help of pet-finding charity Lost Paws Northern Ireland. They helped organise day and night
