Comments on: I had quite a scare yesterday…

By: Melissa Kowalchuk

Melissa Kowalchuk — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:49:09 +0000

Pat-
Yikes! Must be a lab thing;) Sounds like something my Goldie would do – take a ride in a stranger’s car just for the simple pleasure of taking a ride. Happy to hear that Tully was found safely!

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:53:14 +0000

I had a similar experience with my chocolate lab, Tully. We adopted him last November. He decided to take himself for a walk by jumping over the fence around the back yard. My other dog came in the house and alerted me that something was wrong. Tully is usually the first dog to come back in from the yard. When I didn’t see him, I started looking for him in the alley behind our house. When I didn’t see him, I got in the car and started driving around looking for him. When I saw him, he was sitting in front of a Cintas truck with the driver holding his collar. He had walked in front of the truck on a very busy street a block from our house. Luckily, the driver is a dog lover with a lab at home and he stopped in the middle of the street. Tully jumped into the truck as if to say, “Let’s go”.

After that experience, we began walking him several times a day to give him the exercise he was showing us that he needed and he has not taken himself on a walk since.

By: Letty

Letty — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:30:07 +0000

I almost lost my dog Lucky (mix chihauhua/JackRussel Terrier). He chased a cat in our back yard and went under our neighbor’s yard but I never knew where he went, I was inside my house… so I called out for him and he never came till I heard him barking … he got stuck in the neighbor’s backyard.

I was so scared, I called the animal control because I thought he got out and ran off in the streets. He didn’t have his collar on but he is microchipped which is good to have. so the good news is that I found him afterwards in my neighbor’s yard and I was so happy.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:54:32 +0000

Well….first, DOUBLE WHEW! When you mention “mom panic”…I know exactly what you mean. I’m so glad you found Goldie.

I don’t really have an experience, but have experienced the same anxiousness. I have two beagles and you hear all kinds of horror stories about never letting your beagle off a leash. My dogs have escaped under fences a couple of times and thankfully, they have never “disappeared” from sight.

I don’t know what it is but when my dog Trudy “escapes”, she runs like the wind and one day, she got underneath a gate at tennis court where we were doing obedience training. I never thought she could squeeze under it. Anyway, she ran right for the busy road…stopped dead in her tracks…car comes across and she ran back to me.

How scary is that…I’m so glad you found Goldie. I can just imagine the fear you had. You tell Goldie to never do that again