re: Who here has had their dog run away?

I've got a little beagle that's has the heart and soul of a wolverine. Was my newphew's dog and my sister didn't socialize her much at all as a pup, she's been a case. Out here when she gets on a trail of a rabbit she will not let off it. She'll stay on it for hours and hours and dig and chase and dig and chase well into the night, yelping and giving her location away to the coyotes. Somehow she's survived so far, I fear for the day her luck runs out. Sometimes the collie/heeler mix will go get her but he's too old to put any kind of fight either.

We've gotten infinite more strays than ones that have ran away, but rooster is right about the call of the wild. It's instinctive and natural for dogs especially head strong ones.