In a twist that you couldn t script , the beloved dog of Robert Weber, a man who was missing in bushland for 18 days, has been found alive. Local MP for Gympie Tony Perrett said Nessie the Bull Arab wandered into a house on his property on Sunday afternoon. While it s dropped some weight, it had no injuries, it was still lively and still strong, Mr Perrett said. I called Robert yesterday to let him know and he was just elated that we d found the dog. Just a good outcome, it was just lucky that it did wander into the home on the property and somebody was there.
In a twist that you couldn t script , the beloved dog of Robert Weber, a man who was missing in bushland for 18 days, has been found alive. Local MP for Gympie Tony Perrett said Nessie the Bull Arab wandered into a house on his property on Sunday afternoon. While it s dropped some weight, it had no injuries, it was still lively and still strong, Mr Perrett said. I called Robert yesterday to let him know and he was just elated that we d found the dog. Just a good outcome, it was just lucky that it did wander into the home on the property and somebody was there.
Robert Weber was found by Mr Perrett near a dam on his Kilkivan property more than two weeks after the 58-year-old went missing, and despite the dam having already been investigated during comprehensive searches led by police. Robert Weber, 58, was found by local MP for Gympie Tony Perrett who went out checking his property after the main search was called off. Picture: Michele Perrett
Mr Weber was last seen with Nessie leaving a Kilkivan hotel in a white Ford Falcon on January 6.
He and his companion had become separated and the dog was thought lost, at least until late Sunday night.
“We continued to keep an eye out for her, but we had pretty much given up on finding her alive. But then late Sunday afternoon, the dog just wandered into the home on the property.
“The dog is in safe hands now, she’s been fed and watered, and although she lost a fair amount of body weight, there’s no physical injuries at all.”
Perrett said Weber was elated to hear Nessie had also survived when he called him to tell him the good news.
“He was very pleased, he didn’t expect a call like that at all, saying we’d found the dog. He was as surprised as I was, because he had almost given up on finding her alive.”
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A Queensland man missing for 18 days has been found alive just three kilometres from his car after he survived on mushrooms and water from a dam.
Robert Weber, 58, went missing after last being seen leaving a hotel in Kilkivan with his dog on his way to Dululu near Rockhampton on January 6.
His car got stuck in dirt on a farm road he was unfamiliar with shortly after leaving the hotel.
Police launched a search for Weber after he was reported missing but it was suspended on January 20 after volunteers and police searched bushland, rivers, dams, and steep terrain in Kilkivan.