A dog that had been missing for over a week on a Perthshire Munro has been miraculously found.
Cockapoo Ester disappeared while she and her owner Rachael Nixon descended Ben Chonzie near Comrie on Tuesday October 17.
Extensive search efforts then took place to locate the two-year-old with drones recently used by a volunteer from the Drone SAR for Lost Dogs Facebook page.
Writing on Facebook, Rachael said: “We came down off the Munro after camping with bacon and sausages and I had a voicemail but didn’t want to get my hopes up so went to the person’s house and there she was.
“She’s lost a lot of weight and has a couple sore bits and is absolutely stinking but her tail wagged when she seen me and she started crying.
“She’s a bit dazed and lethargic but apart from that she’s been a tough dog — even the farmers were amazed.”
The young dog went missing when Rachael, who was visiting the area from Kirkcaldy, let go of the the two-year-old dog’s lead after she slipped on a rocky area of ground.
Rachael had been joined by family and friends in the hunt for Ester every day since the incident and said it was down to a previous Courier article that she was found.
She added: “I’ve walked 80 miles up steep hills of 3000ft to find her and that’s not even including all the searching my friends, family, volunteers, and estate workers have done.
“The man who found her saw the article, recognised her immediately and got her to safety.
“It’s all because he had seen her in The Courier and knew her name and who she was.
“She’s had a wee clean up at Wags to Riches so that her sore bits don’t get infected.
“It’s a miracle. “
