THE search for a missing Kidderminster dog has gone global after its distraught owner sought help from human trackers trained by a leading Hollywood animal communicator.

Deborah Lacey has lost the vision in one of her eyes and has been told her blindness, due to a detached retina, has been caused by stress - which she puts down to the disappearance of her beloved tan whippet-lurcher cross, Holly, 10 weeks ago.

Two weeks ago Mrs Lacey enlisted the help of five animal communicators "out of sheer desperation" and is now hoping to appear on national television appealing for her beloved dog's return.

This is after the telepathic trackers - three of whom were trained by leading Los Angeles animal communicator Amelia Kinkade - told Mrs Lacey Holly was safe and well and being cared for by an elderly couple who do not know she is lost.

They used a picture of Holly and information about her to form a telepathic link with the dog, according to Mrs Lacey.

She said she had previously spent weeks putting up "missing" posters and posting leaflets through people's doors and believed Holly, who is epileptic, had bolted from her garden in Chester Road South during a thunderstorm on July 4.

"I don't know whether she has bolted, had a fit and been disorientated ... but she's such a nervous dog, who would never hurt a fly, and I just need her home," Mrs Lacey said.

She explained she had made contact with the animal communicators after an old acquaintance from Stourbridge, Elizabeth Parish - who had started animal communicating since she last saw her - visited the tack shop she owns, Hawstone Saddlery, on Mill Street, Kidderminster.

"I told her about Holly and she started trying to trace her and gave me the email address of another tracker who does it for free in Scotland," Mrs Lacey said.

"I emailed her a picture of Holly and then she came back to me and said Holly was alive."

Four other communicators have since taken up the trail, one of whom is also tracking dogs in America and Switzerland.

Forty-two-year-old mum-of-three, Mrs Lacey, who is going into Birmingham Eye Hospital tomorrow for surgery to restore her vision, said: "I presumed Holly was dead when I contacted the animal communicators because I thought no dog can just disappear off the face of the earth, so when they contacted me I was really excited."

She added: "She's such a loved dog that I'm never going to give up on her - she's part of the family.

"I sleep with the phone by my bed just in case someone calls in the middle of the night."

Mrs Parish told the Shuttle/Times & News yesterday that she believed Holly was being cared for in the Kidderminster area after she had picked up the postcode DY11 using a dousing pendulum.

"I know Holly's still alive and I just hope that if someone is keeping her as a pet that, although they may have deep feelings for her, they will do the right thing and get Debbie and her dog reunited," she said.

Anyone with information on Holly's whereabouts should contact Mrs Lacey on 07753 856795.