Psychics Search for Vivi.

Vivi (full name Champion Bonhem C’est La Vie) ran away from her airport crate after winning the Westminster dog show last month.

Her tale of life-on-the-lam has captivated New Yorkers, and now psychics have been brought in to help.

Four agreed the dog was inside a building, an insight which Mr Lepiane described as "a huge breakthrough". Beatrice Lydecker, of Portland, Oregon, assisting in the search, said she believed that Vivi could see yellow machinery and was hiding under folded boxes.

"She said Vivi could hear a person calling to her, but she didn’t recognise the voice," said Honi Reisman, a friend of the owners. "They are telling us that she is alive and they are telling us she is warm. They are saying she’s in a building, but there are hundreds of buildings." The dog’s co-owner Jill Walton, 39, from Los Angeles, was distraught, fearing that Vivi might have drowned in the marshes near the runway.

Link | Newsday’s Vivi Watch blog