THE intervention of a Dandenong psychic proved a good portent for a Noble Park couple despairing over their missing puppy.
Sophia, the 10-month-old cavalier-poodle – or cavoodle, was found in a cage left by an unknown person outside the Australian Animal Protection Society shelter in Keysborough last Tuesday morning.
Her return overjoyed owner John Vaccarino, who had endured sleepless nights and been searching streets and pounds for 31 days since Sophia crawled under his backyard gate.
“I couldn’t imagine that we’d get that call to say she’s been returned.
“As soon as (Sophia) saw me, she jumped on me.”
He said he wouldn’t let his loyal lap-dog out of his sight, vowing to install a more secure backyard gate.
Mr Vaccarino was amazed at the “spot on” advice from Dandenong psychic Joanne Millaras, who contacted him after reading a Journal report on the missing cavoodle last month.
She had accurately foretold Mr Vaccarino would get his dog back within weeks.
“As soon as I saw the story and this old man putting up a flier on the pole, I had a sense this person must live near a school or a playground,” Ms Millaras said.
“I knew she’d come back after two or three weeks, or two or three months – it was all in the two or threes.”
Ms Millaras sensed the person who kept the puppy in the meantime was a local middle-aged single mother.
“She was getting up for an early morning job and she saw this dog stranded all alone and shaken.
“What I was reading through the cards was… the parent has to go overseas. That’s when they’re going to bring the dog back.”
A tearful Ms Millaras was pleased her “amazing gift” – acquired after being revived from a surgical “death experience” – had helped the Vaccarinos.
“This gift is why I was brought back.
“I’m very grateful that God could help me out with John and his wife.”
– Cam Lucadou-Wells
