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Who here has had their dog run away?
Posted on 12/27/15 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 12/27/15 at 4:25 pm
Last night my dad took my dog to the hunting camp to check on our boat. While he was busy with the boat, apparently beau (my dog) jumped out of the truck bed.
Beau is 11 years old and still very healthy and has never done this before. Searched half of last night and a few hours this morning and can't find him anywhere. Really does suck. Dogs are a mans best friend.
Beau is 11 years old and still very healthy and has never done this before. Searched half of last night and a few hours this morning and can't find him anywhere. Really does suck. Dogs are a mans best friend.
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Posted on 12/27/15 at 4:32 pm to Roll on Tigers
Put your clothes outside where you lost him. He'll return.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 4:34 pm to Stacked
It can't hurt to try I reckon
Posted on 12/27/15 at 4:38 pm to Roll on Tigers
don't make your next dog lick peanut butter off your junk and he'll stay around.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 4:41 pm to five_fivesix
Ahhh...that must be why he ran away. Damn, don't know why I didn't think of that
Posted on 12/27/15 at 5:04 pm to Roll on Tigers
I had one take off on memorial day 3 years back... He was 12 or so at the time, he had woods experience on my 25 acres, but I was at a buddy's 2200 acre farm. I set out food in 2 locations my dog knew along with some clothes and a blanket he slept on. I spent 36 hours searching mosquito infested Florida woods. I did find him... and scared him into running back in the trees for another 6 fricking hours lol. I was a little overexcited and approached a scared, slightly blind, and deaf dog a little too quickly.
That feeling of your buddy missing is the worst. I hope you find him soon.
That feeling of your buddy missing is the worst. I hope you find him soon.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 5:23 pm to MoarKilometers
Man, that's a heck of an adventure to find your dog. Haha. But duty calls. Glad you found him
Posted on 12/27/15 at 5:37 pm to Roll on Tigers
Years ago, my wife had a collie shepard mix that looked like a hunting dog. Somebody stole her out of the yard. Was gone we thought...forever. My wife (GF at the time), kept looking. 6-8 weeks went by and I kept saying its a lost cause.
Then she "just decided" to stop by the Birmingham Animal Control facility just in case...and holy shite, there was the dog. We thought it was miracle.
Guess she wasnt much of a hunting dog and whomever stole her, just let her go and Animal Control picked her up. Given that she was a full grown dog, no telling how long before they would have euthanized her.
Moral of the story: Keep Looking!!!! You never know.
Then she "just decided" to stop by the Birmingham Animal Control facility just in case...and holy shite, there was the dog. We thought it was miracle.
Guess she wasnt much of a hunting dog and whomever stole her, just let her go and Animal Control picked her up. Given that she was a full grown dog, no telling how long before they would have euthanized her.
Moral of the story: Keep Looking!!!! You never know.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 5:43 pm to Roll on Tigers
When I was a kid our yellow lab dug out with another yellow lab we were pet sitting. They split up at the town square apparently. Our lab ran straight to the Animal shelter and turned herself in, but the male we pet sat played hard to get with Animal control. Animal Control said in his 30's years he's never seen a dog act so guilty. 
Posted on 12/27/15 at 5:45 pm to Roll on Tigers
Older dogs sometimes do that when they're going to pass on.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 5:59 pm to AUbagman
You're right. My Maltese did that. But beau is in great shape actually. I think he might have chased a deer and ended up somewhere
Posted on 12/27/15 at 6:34 pm to Roll on Tigers
We've had a couple of them do it ... mostly males, one female.
One old male Texas Blue Heeler, probably one of my favorite all time dogs ... he was 14 years old and one day he said goodbye to us and left. Thanksgiving a year ago. Broke my heart ... but they will do that when they are getting old and want to go off and die.
ZZTop, a female Huskie, she was one hard headed bitch but one day she came to us, said goodbye, and disappeared. She was 14 as well. That was about four years ago.
This year's Masters Tourney, I work the tourney but we always have friends stay with us from out of town. We had this half husky, half border collie named Skipper, he was eight years old. He came and said goodbye to us when we were all sitting on the back porch that Thursday night ... then he was gone. He was bad about chasing the poon and nothing was going to keep him on the grounds. We've got ten acres of yard here, bordered with an invisible fence, AND a cattle fence, and he was one we had to keep a shock collar on ... but it never phased him when he decided he was going over the fence. He was stand offish to most people and sometimes aggressive ... but he strolled up on the back deck that night, walked around and let everyone at the party pet him ... came over to me and actually put his paws up in my lap for the first time ever .... looked me straight in the eyes, turned and walked to the stairs, took one last look back and me and he was gone.
Dogs are going to do what they want to do. Big dogs anyway. Littler dogs notsomuch in terms of running away, but the big dogs, when it is there time to hear the call of the wild they are gone.
We've got a lot of coyotes around here and I always fear mine running into coyotes ... I know Skipper had tangled with them on several occasions. And back when we rescued huskies ... oh man. We'd have as many as a dozen, sometimes more, huskies on one fenced in area of the back forty at a time when we were placing them in adoptive homes ... and the coyotes were no match for a pack of huskies, there were some serious fur flying blood letting run-ins with the huskies and the coyotes back in those days. But a single domesticated canine is no match for a pack of these coyotes.
Anyways, yeah, we've had to deal with it a few times but dogs are going to be dogs and there is no controlling them when they get out of your sight and decide to answer the call of the wild. I've been around them my whole life ... my mother was known as "The Dog Lady" when I was growing-up and well into her old age ... they even did a front page article on her in The State Newspaper here years ago about the 1000s of dogs she has rescued. So I've been around them, en masse, my entire life - we're serious dog people. Got a rescue pit bull that was dropped off back here on my property six years ago pregnant with 15 puppies, 13 of which lived and we found homes for all of them ... so I know about dogs. You're going to lose them every now and then. Especially the males when they get older. It's just a force of nature.
One old male Texas Blue Heeler, probably one of my favorite all time dogs ... he was 14 years old and one day he said goodbye to us and left. Thanksgiving a year ago. Broke my heart ... but they will do that when they are getting old and want to go off and die.
ZZTop, a female Huskie, she was one hard headed bitch but one day she came to us, said goodbye, and disappeared. She was 14 as well. That was about four years ago.
This year's Masters Tourney, I work the tourney but we always have friends stay with us from out of town. We had this half husky, half border collie named Skipper, he was eight years old. He came and said goodbye to us when we were all sitting on the back porch that Thursday night ... then he was gone. He was bad about chasing the poon and nothing was going to keep him on the grounds. We've got ten acres of yard here, bordered with an invisible fence, AND a cattle fence, and he was one we had to keep a shock collar on ... but it never phased him when he decided he was going over the fence. He was stand offish to most people and sometimes aggressive ... but he strolled up on the back deck that night, walked around and let everyone at the party pet him ... came over to me and actually put his paws up in my lap for the first time ever .... looked me straight in the eyes, turned and walked to the stairs, took one last look back and me and he was gone.
Dogs are going to do what they want to do. Big dogs anyway. Littler dogs notsomuch in terms of running away, but the big dogs, when it is there time to hear the call of the wild they are gone.
We've got a lot of coyotes around here and I always fear mine running into coyotes ... I know Skipper had tangled with them on several occasions. And back when we rescued huskies ... oh man. We'd have as many as a dozen, sometimes more, huskies on one fenced in area of the back forty at a time when we were placing them in adoptive homes ... and the coyotes were no match for a pack of huskies, there were some serious fur flying blood letting run-ins with the huskies and the coyotes back in those days. But a single domesticated canine is no match for a pack of these coyotes.
Anyways, yeah, we've had to deal with it a few times but dogs are going to be dogs and there is no controlling them when they get out of your sight and decide to answer the call of the wild. I've been around them my whole life ... my mother was known as "The Dog Lady" when I was growing-up and well into her old age ... they even did a front page article on her in The State Newspaper here years ago about the 1000s of dogs she has rescued. So I've been around them, en masse, my entire life - we're serious dog people. Got a rescue pit bull that was dropped off back here on my property six years ago pregnant with 15 puppies, 13 of which lived and we found homes for all of them ... so I know about dogs. You're going to lose them every now and then. Especially the males when they get older. It's just a force of nature.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 6:54 pm to Roll on Tigers
I have no help for you, but good luck finding your dog.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 9:45 pm to Roll on Tigers
Update: there was a dog that looked exactly like Beau who was also in the same area when he got lost that was found. Unfortunately, it was a female that looked exactly like him
Posted on 12/28/15 at 2:04 am to Roll on Tigers
Posted on 12/28/15 at 5:04 am to Roll on Tigers
Hey give us an update We are all rooting for you and your dog to be reunited ASAP! 
Posted on 12/28/15 at 8:06 am to kirbydawg
Still nothing yet, guys. We will continue to look
Posted on 12/28/15 at 9:44 am to Roll on Tigers
Yeah, we had a 5 year old Doberman run off when I was a kid. We're not 100% sure he wasn't stolen though. It sucked because he wasn't the kind to run off. Even outside the fence he stuck to our yard for the most part and would immediately come back when we called for him. We got home one day and the gate was open and he was nowhere to be found.
My mom was heartbroken for months. She loved that dog, and hasn't really loved one since.
My mom was heartbroken for months. She loved that dog, and hasn't really loved one since.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 10:25 am to The Spleen
Ever see Funny Farm with Chevy Chase? The part where he got a dog and it immediately ran off? Happened to me. Got a small mutt. Had it a week, took it outside and it took off never to be seen again.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 1:56 pm to Roll on Tigers
Update: great news! Beau is safely back at home. Somehow he never actually made it to our camp. I guess he jumped out before?
A woman had been keeping him over the weekend and called the vet this morning. He's in good shape. He has been keeping her grand children company
A woman had been keeping him over the weekend and called the vet this morning. He's in good shape. He has been keeping her grand children company
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