Just in case any glocals members were on the Dôle around 13h00 yesterday, this is to let you know that we took the dog down to St Cergue and reunited it with its owner's daughter at around 16h00. We had to stop three or four times to warm up its feet which were icing over and managed to get a lift for the last 2km. It turns out that the dog had been 'adopted' from the SPA, meaning it had already been abondoned once and was not too pleased about finding itself in the same position. Everytime it sensed someone was behind us, it kept looking wistfully until it ascertained that it was not its owner.
It looked a bit like this http://www.sgpa.ch/#single1601
A big thanks to the presence of mind of a group of English? ski tourers who recognised that it was lost, checked the tag and phoned the telephone number on the tag and a thank you to them also for the piece of string they gave us which acted a lead.