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How to comfort a friend???

I have a good friend at work. She just recently lost her dog of 17 years. Muttly was her furfriend for so long. My friend has kept her Muttly at her daughters house in the country for awhile so she would have more room and be able to enjoy the outside. She was a sweetheart that always slept with my friend, went camping with them for so many years, played with her grandkids. Her daughter wasn't home and for whatever reason Muttly wandered out into the road. there is rarely traffic but she just moved to slow and was hit by a car.
The real problem for my friend is that the neighbor that hit her says she laid Muttly under a tree in the yard but Muttly is nowhere to be found? They have searched and searched for her. My friend is beside herself because the neighbor says she was dead but what if, what if she wasn't??? It was about 8 in the morning so we don't think coyotes could have dragged her off. The vets in the area have been called to see if a dog matching her description has been brought in, NO, she has not been found. I feel so helpless. We have driven by and searched the ditches in vain thinking she may have crawled a little ways. They have walked the fields in the area.

It is heartbreaking to see my friend so upset and worried about her pet of so many years. There just doesn't seem to be anything to be done now. At Muttly's age, she wouldn't survive by herself out there somewhere. It is so awful, the not knowing what has happened to her, I know how I feel about my four footed friends and I just hate her going through this. She has gone through all the what if's, if only they had fence, if only Muttly was inside, which she hated, if only someone had been home.
I know what it is to lose one you love so much but this is just the worst. It's like she just vanished and no one seems to know what happened to her after she was hit.
I am just so sad for her.