On the day she disappeared, Dottie the spotted white pit bull mix was sunning herself in her big Pender County yard — a spoiled and beloved pet with no reason to run off.
Then David Eipp heard her barking from inside the house, and she didn’t come bounding back like usual even when he gave his special whistle. He heard her barking again, then no more.
After a year and a half, Eipp estimates driving 1,000 miles around Pender County in search of his dog, having posted signs at every intersection and passed them out to his letter carrier, the FedEx driver and the UPS truck…