Their homing capability always amaze me. When I was growing up, my neighbour's dog, who moved quite a few miles away, kept coming back to visit our dog. His owner got tired of picking him up and we actually fostered the dog for a while when he's not needed for hunting duty. We initially thought he's attracted by our girl dog but they just hung out together, nothing romantic as we could tell. Friendship, perhaps?
Used to have a mule like that many years ago. Had to drag him out of the barn, lead and walk him through miles of woods while cutting cross-ties. Getting to work was slow going. But, at the end of the day, you could climb on his back while blindfolded and be at the barn post haste.
Someone gave my son a full-grown chocolate lab. The dog kept getting out of the fence and going back home. After the 5th time, he told them to just keep him.
Years ago, my rebellious dd moved in with my mother, she took her cat. The cat disappeared from Granny's house, weeks later I saw her in my back yard.
Animals are truly amazing, aren't they? I read a story a few years ago about a cat that made it's way across several states back to it's original home. The cat's owners were moving across country and sometime during their trip the cat got away from them. They looked for it for a couple of days with no luck. The cat showed up at their old house something like six months later! WOW!
Four years ago my husband and I found a dog while we were out walking. We could tell the dog was older and it looked like it hadn't eaten a decent meal in a long time. He was very weak. As luck would have it, there was a two year old rabies tag on his collar. We put him in our back yard, fed him, and I was able to finally track down the owner the next day. She had moved from an area close to our neighborhood about four months before that, the dog got out of the new yard about six weeks later and after searching for several weeks, she thought he was gone for good. Actually the dog had made his way close to where they used to live.... which was about 14 miles from her new place. The most amazing parts of his journey was that not only was he a 12 year old dog but we are talking about the Dallas area... with all the traffic on the major roads he had to have traveled and other hazards it's truly amazing the dog survived his journey. It was a joyous reunion!!
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My grandfather lived in WV. When he needed money he would sell his hunting dog. The first time the dog was let loose in the field it would return home. The person who bought the dog would come to my grandfather and want his money back and he would give it to him. Better than any bank. On time he sold the dog to a man who took it to OH. The dog was gone for about two months and then returned home. My grandfather often wondered how the dog got across the Ohio River.
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Dad god a standard poodle once kind of like that. HE was baby sitting it for the owners while they were on vacation for a couple of weeks. Couple of days after he took her back home the wife calls up and says "COME AND GET YOUR DOG!" Dad says I don't have a dog and the lady says well you do not! Seems she would refuse to eat, moped around all day and was basically starving herself to death. Funny part of this story is that the people owned a golf course and the dog was out there all the time. One day after a round of golf Dad puts the dog in the car while he goes in for a beer. Few minutes later the woman comes in and tells dad that his dog nearly bit her head off. Seems she say dads car and went over to say hi to the dog and being possessive the dog went ballistic over the invasion of HER domain.
donn0128 wrote: Dad god a standard poodle once kind of like that..... Dad says I don't have a dog and the lady says well you do not!...... Seems she say dads car and went over to say hi to the dog
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