The owner, of the two missing Bridgewater dogs, is now offering a $5,000 reward for their safe return.

BRIDGEWATER – “I look for them all the time,” Janyce Woodward said. “Sometimes I go outside at night and just hope to see two pairs of little eyes looking back at me.”

Woodward paused.

“I just want my dogs home,” she pleaded.

Woodward’s two Wheaten terriers, Marcie and Morrie, have been missing for nearly three weeks, but she still holds onto hope that they are out there and ready to return home.

“No one has found their collars and there haven’t been any sightings since the first night,” Woodward, a Bridgewater resident, said. “Because we haven’t found anything it gives me hope.”

Woodward is now offering a $5,000 reward for the safe return of her dogs.

“No questions will be asked,” Woodward said. “I just want them returned safely and unharmed.”

Marcie, 10, and Morrie, 8, went missing on Dec. 9.

Woodward had been cleaning off her car as her dogs played in the snowy driveway. When she turned around her dogs were gone.

The dogs were last seen in the area of Summer and Flagg streets that night.

Since then, thousands of missing dogs flyers have been passed out and hung up, pictures of the pair have been shared hundreds of times on Facebook and news stations have reported the story.

“It is unbelievable the support we have gotten for Morrie and Marcie,” Woodward said. “The community has been unbelievable.”

Woodward said along with friends and family searching for the dogs, strangers are searching, a pet tracker was brought out, people have gone out on ATVs to look for any signs of the dogs, the Animal Control Officer has been extremely involved in the search, property owners have given permission for them to look in their yards and woods, people have used drones and set up cameras and hunters have kept their eye out for the pups.

But still, nothing has been found.

“With all of the people looking you would think they would show up,” Woodward said.

Woodward said while there are coyotes or fisher cats in the area, because nothing has been found she thinks someone may have her dogs.

“I can only hope that they are in the warmth, maybe in front of someone's fireplace enjoying their time and being cared for,” Woodward said. “ But if someone does have them I hope those people will do the right thing and give them them back to us.”

For now Woodward wants to keep the search alive and continue to spread the word about her four legged family members.

“We ask that everyone to tell their local vets, groomers, doggie day cares, dog sitters, pet stores and any where else you might take your dog, to please make them aware about my Morrie and Marcie,” Woodward said. “If someone does have them, and if they go to any one of those locations, someone will end up eventually recognizing them as the two Wheatens that need to go home.”

Anyone who has information about the dogs can contact Woodward at 508-942-6977; Animal Control officer Lisa McKay at 508-697-1290

“I can't even tell you how wonderful this community has been,” Woodward said. “People have reached out from not only the surrounding towns, but even other states. If my dogs are as resilient and strong as we think they are, then they will be found.”

Sara Cline may be reached at scline@enterprisenews.com.