This morning’s national search launched by the Ministry for Animal Rights and endorsed by Animal Welfare to find a partially-blind Leukemia survivor’s guide dog had an abysmal turn-out, with barely anyone showing up.

A whole half hour into the scheduled search, the Ta’ Kandja meeting point only had one lone man waiting for anything to happen, before he gave up.

“I came to help, but everyone needs to work, and I can’t wait here forever if no one’s showing up,” the man told Lovin Malta before driving off.

Some family members are believed to have showed up at one point, but after they found no one, they too left.

Nearly one hour later, four men were spotted walking by the side of the road, peering over some of the nearby fields’ rubble walls.