People across South Bristol and North Somerset are being asked to keep a look out for a five-year-old dog called Barney, who has gone missing in a desperate eight-mile mission to get home.
Barney’s owner Chris LeVaillant runs the Budgens store and Shell Garage on the A38 on the way to Bristol Airport in Winford, and the labradoodle was with him at the garage last Wednesday, December 14, when Chris accosted a shoplifter. Barney got spooked by the altercation and ran off down the A38 towards Bristol at around 4pm, and was spotted in the fields later that day around Yew Tree Farm, on the Bridgwater Road on the edge of Bristol.
There have been sightings of Barney since, including near Whitchurch and one on Wednesday this week in the fields on Dundry Hill, and Chris and his wife Julie believe he’s exploring the fields trying to work out which way is home. The trouble is, home for Barney is eight miles away across the countryside in Bishop Sutton, on the edge of Chew Valley Lake.
