Eyko died 2½ years young.

Friday 31/10 1998 I was getting ready to go training my dogs and overlooked an open fence.
A fence I myself had forgotten to close.
Eyko and his brother Fendi took the run,and in no time they vanished out into the big world.
I called the police and then jumped into my car and drove panicstaken round in the countryside.
After about half an hour a young man phoned me on my mobile,and asked if it was me who was missing two dogs.
They had just been hunting their sheep, and he and his father had chased them away.
Nothing had happened to their sheep.
I drove home to their place to get some more details.
Both dogs had run towards the willage - and this was the last they saw of them.
The next couple of days stand to me as a shere nightmare.
We drove around searching day and night.
We put up advertisings - delt them around - spoke to dozens and dozens of people.
Good friends and the family with the sheep helped us.
The next 2 days about 30 people called us to tell that they had seen one of the dogs.
We drove around in a huge area about 40 x 40 kms.. - always following up on the last phonecall.
Sunday morning I found Fendi !!
At a moore where one dog had been seen several times during the period.
He was all in one piece, and very happy when he first realized, that it was me who called him.
THANK GOD !!
Now only Eyko was missing, and a slight optimism came into our hearts.
But from that very second I got hold of Fendi, people stopped calling....
Not even one more phonecall was recieved...

The two dogs are completely alike.
Big white males with only difference in the eyecolour.
After half a day of thundering silence, I sat down and re-constructed the different calls.
All but one could realisticly be of the one and same dog !
The explanation could then easily be, that all the people had seen the same dog every time : Fendi.
A terrible feeling, that Eyko maybe was dead started to immerge.
That would also explain why two very strongly attatched dogs in the first place came apart.
The following weeks we put a lot of ads in the local papers.
All we got was false alarms.
I slept overnight in a little wood together with my dogs in hope of finding Eyko.
It turned up to be a white Alaskan Husky.
I found a white retriever and a white crossbreed but no Eyko...
One of Denmarks most skilled tracking-dogs went through the moore without luck.
We put in ads and begged people to come forward and tell us if they knew something about his destiny.
No result.

After a couple of months with hopes always ending in despair, we slowly began to accept the terrible
fact, that we will never get to know what happened to my Eyko.

We do believe, that he has been killed quite close to their escape.
Only the family with the sheep saw the two dogs together.
A lot of small remarks and a over-enthusiastic eager to help unfourtunately has given
us the suspect, that the son and father did more than just chase the dogs away.
We positively know, that the son used a gun to chase the dogs away, and we believe that he
wounded or killed Eyko.
We have confronted them with our suspision, but they fully denie....