‘He’s our missing dog, he’s our missing family’: Couple seeks lead in search for poodle who disappeared from Calgary doggie hotel

A Calgary couple are looking for any leads in their search for their dog, who disappeared after being left in the care of a doggie hotel on Halloween.

Six-year-old white poodle Abu went missing on Oct. 31 after the couple left him at the hotel in an industrial area near the airport at around noon.

Man Chung Lam and his wife, Sandy, were in Bali when they learned the five-pound pooch had somehow disappeared.

They cancelled their trip, flew back to Canada and have been looking ever since.

“After we get back to Calgary, we keep searching,” he told 660 NewsRadio.

“The hotel — and also our friends — they keep searching the areas around the hotel, and they don’t have any sightings … and both of us, we couldn’t find his body.”

The couple came to Canada from Hong Kong three years ago, and he flew with them at the same time.

Lam believes Abu was picked up by someone else by accident, and also suspects he could have wandered into a nearby delivery truck, many of which are in the area. Lam says maybe he was delivered by accident within Calgary or the surrounding areas.

However, there are no definitive answers as they wrap their heads around what happened and why.

For now, the couple is searching in the northeast areas, where they live in Harvest Hills, and near Coventry Hills.

Drones can’t be used at the site close to the airport, but Lam says friends and family are searching and helping as best they can.

“On all these days we use all our manpower, with our friends, with ourselves, to do all the searching,” he said.

“Because there’s the industrial area and there is no food, no water and no warmth, so we keep thinking, where did he go?”

Despite not having a single lead on the whereabouts of their poodle, the couple hopes someone has information that will lead them to their beloved dog.

Lam says that until they learn otherwise, they are hoping someone has Abu, and when they learn how much he is loved, they will return him.

“We came from a different country to this country … so we treat him like our son,” he said.

“We love him so much, and for these cases, we never have thought about it, because of our vacation, that we will lose him from service here. So that’s why we believe he’s still alive and being picked up by someone.

“He’s our missing dog, he’s our missing family.”

If you have any information or possible leads on Abu’s whereabouts, you can email them at samlam1113@hotmail.com.

You can also email nadia.moharib@rci.rogers.com to provide any information on this story that may help with the search.