Unusual dog story

[DWalt]

Story in the local news today. Someone here in San Antonio found a stray dog. It was taken to the County animal shelter, where it was scanned for a microchip. It was found to have belonged to a family in California and went missing four years ago and a thousand miles away. It is being returned home. If it could talk, that dog could probably tell an interesting story. 13-year-old dog found in San Antonio reunites with California owner four years after vanishing.

 

[Alk8944]

What is even more interesting is the stories of an animal being separated from it's family while on vacation hundreds of miles away from home and finding it's way home months and sometimes years later. There are also stories of a family moving across the country while an animal was missing at home, and the animal finding his family at their new home hundreds of miles away after, again, months or even years. These are more common than you would think! I wish I could give information on specific cases but it gas been years since I read some of them. I recall some of the stories were in "Readers Digest".

In about 1978 I gave a black short-hair kitten, probably 6-8 months old, to a fellow employee who lived about 20 miles away. A few weeks later She comes trotting up to my back door. We kept her.

 

[bullmack]

I'm pretty sure that these dogs found so far from home were most likely stolen. Also may have wandered off and semi rescued.

 

[AugieTN]

Wife had a large male Siamese cat, who was really smart. All I had to do was whistle and he would come running.

He use to love to go outside, but he knew he needed a collar and a leash to go out side. He would bring the collar and the leash to the door.

After he died, we couldn't find the collar or the leash. He must have taken them with him when he died.

Trust me it gave us goosebumps

 

[SMSgt]

The number of pets that get "lost" around here is astounding. Most are on a typical walkabout, as animals are prone to do, and would find their way back if the do-gooders didn't petnap them, post pictures on local social forums, turn them over to animal controls, etc.

 

[Smoke]

This story isn't quite so dramatic but in 1980 my family moved from 65th and Western Avenue in Omaha to 151st and Dodge Street in Omaha.

The day after we moved we went on vacation to Adventureland in Des Moines Iowa for 3 days. We asked our new neighbor to watch our dog.

The very first time she lets the dog out the dog vanished. We got home from our vacation three days later and the dog was still gone.


About a week later we got a phone call from the people who had been our neighbors when we lived on 65th Street that our dog was sitting on the front step outside of our old house.

I don't know for sure how far that was I'd say at least 20 miles. I don't know why it took him that long to get there but that dog thought that we had dumped him at our new house and he went to where he knew home was.

 

[Alk8944]

The number of pets that get "lost" around here is astounding. Most are on a typical walkabout, as animals are prone to do, and would find their way back if the do-gooders didn't petnap them, post pictures on local social forums, turn them over to animal controls, etc.

Between August and Christmas 1958 I lost two young Siamese cats. One had been a birthday present. It was a new neighborhood with lots of home-building, including right next-door. I have always thought someone stole both of them, especially the second which disappeared just before Christmas. Someone probably took him for a Christmas present for their kids.

My Dad insisted cats needed to be allowed to run free even after this. None of my animals have been allowed out of the house on their own for the past nearly 50 years! It hurts too much to lose a pet.

 

[Autonomous]

I'm pretty sure that these dogs found so far from home were most likely stolen.

Too many homeless people treat other peoples' family pets like the bicycles they steal, abandon, trade, neglect, etc.

When I was on the railroad a very high percentage of the bums were felons on the run. You'd see some dangerous king size literal half-wit with a stolen foo-foo dog with a pink collar. I remember one particularly big goon with a tiny poodle and a soft ball size rock in his hand trying to come up behind me.

The dog I have now was rescued when his homeless temporary owners were arrested. I was told by the rescue agency he had been semi-feral living with whomever at the time in homeless camps and cars.

 

[DWalt]

For the most part, we have always kept our cats inside. They don’t seem to mind. We have had a couple of cats that were outdoor cats, and did not want to come inside. One in particular stayed outside, living in a large oak tree or on our roof, and did not wander the neighborhood. He was self-sufficient, I guess living on rats, mice, birds, etc. We did not feed him, but did keep a bowl of water out for him. We did find him dead one day, but he was at least 10 years old.

 

[jeffrefrig]

"Lassie Come Home!"