They offered to use their drone to track the dog’s movements after she was spotted in various locations.

It wasn't long before people in the neighbourhood above David Avenue responded with sightings.įrom the Coquitlam Facebook group, the post went out on the Port Coquitlam Facebook group, where more sightings were reported.Īmong those who saw the appeal were Kimberley and Cameron Osborne, who own Advanced Drone Solutions BC., based in Coquitlam, which provides commercial and industrial drone services. The call for help went out on Sunday (May 21) for Burke Mountain residents to keep an eye out for Stella, a 13-year-old white female Husky. 'It's great to see that there are still a lot of great amazing people who will help complete strangers in need,' Hinkley said. While you often see posts about missing pets on social media, they don't always attract the kind of following - and support - that was generated by a post about Stella, who stayed missing through the May long weekend. 'I was not enjoying my vacation, that's for sure,' Hinkley said. Hinkley had to watch the whole episode unfold while he was on what was supposed to be an enjoyable family vacation with his brother, parents and 94-year-old grandma. Social media played a big part in the Stella's rescue that spanned two communities over three days and through several kilometres of ravine, forests, busy streets, a bustling downtown and a dangerous highway and rail yard. 'So the hunt was on putting up posts on Facebook,' Hinkley recalled to the Tri-City News. Unfortunately, Stella slipped out of her collar with two tracking air tags and disappeared. No one knows how the dogs got out of the yard - but Harley was quickly found. 'Typical Huskies,' was owner Trevor Hinkley's comment about how his dog, Stella, escaped a friend's yard, along with her sibling, Harley, while he was on vacation in Maui. It started as a Sunday morning jaunt for a pair of Husky dogs on Coquitlam's Burke Mountain, but turned into a three-day ordeal.

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