"She was my princess," said dog owner Micki Cain.  "She's not here anymore.  She's gone." 

  Micki was referring to her border collie mix, D.D.  Two of Micki's dogs recently snuck out and wandered out a little too far.  She searched her Goldfield neighborhood for three days. 

  "And my neighbor up the street said, 'Did you check the pond?'" said Micki. 

  That's where she found them.

  "I just called down to her..." Micki said as tears streamed down her face.

  D.D. was dead, but her brother T.J. was alive.

  "He was sitting by her," Micki said.

  Now Micki wants something done about the pond.

  "So that anybody else cannot lose their pets," Micki said.  "Just fence it in.  Do something."

  "To the best of my understanding it's there to trap fresh rainwater and what not," said Shane Cain (Micki's husband).  "So they don't have to pipe water in from the city.  It's for a gold processing plant."

  But in the last decade Shane said, "They've never processed an ounce of gold."

  Shane works for a different nearby mining company. 

  "Any water we have, even if it's just entrapment from rainwater, runoff, you know, we monitor you know," Shane said.  "The company that I work for feels a real definite responsibility...to anything that's alive."

  NEWSCHANNEL 13 contacted Jim Watson, the owner of the pond.  Watson said that he was never contacted by Micki Cain, but he did receive one letter from another concerned neighbor.  Mr. Watson said he has been in contact with all the agencies that regulate this type of thing.  He contacted The Mine Land Reclamation Division, The Colorado Department of Health, Teller County Planning and the local police department.  Watson said he verified that he is not in violation of anything. 

Watson told NEWSCHANNEL 13  that the freshwater recirculation pond has been in Goldfield for 22 years and that there are no chemicals in it.  He also explained that there is a leash law in Teller County and he was sad to learn that Micki Cain lost her pet.