Mysterious

For a week the area has been searched for the lost sheep.
There were plenty of them, hundreds but not the one they were looking for.
What happened?
Lost?
Did it end up in a mysterious clinic Konsalik writes about?
The search was in vain and more mistrust arose as the one who disliked it said: it roams around with the old one.
Old and useless?
Useless as in being killed?
Bones, skulls, left the corpses eaten by the dogs covered the soil.

Twice there was a glimpse but no response and at the time everyone gave up and started missing the annoying doorbell he showed up.
Depressed, scared, tired, skinny
A shadow of the happy dog he used to be.

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prompt by @daily.prompt}