I lost my dog this afternoon, still feeling sick!

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What a horrible afternoon, lost my dog when out walking in the pouring rain and wind after 45 minutes of running up and down a wheat field shouting for her as could hear her whining but couldn't work out where she was finally resigned myself to the fact that my poor dog was going to die on top of a hill in the wind and rain (by this point was crying a lot) decided to retrace my steps to find her on the other side of the footpath gate which she couldn't get through! She had obviously looped around me without me realising, we were in a wheat field and I was convinced she was in front of me!

I will never say that I love my horse more, its completely equal, I still feel sick!!

Sorry, pointless post, just thought I would share
 
I've had that moment of panic when one of mine disappears, its horrible. Worst we ever had was when 2 of our GSDs were missing for 3 days, thank heavens they turned up safe at a local farm at 5 am in the morning, such a relief. Glad you found your girl, silly thing getting stuck behind the gate ;)
 
That kind of thing has happened to me and it's the worst, most gut wrenching feeling.

I remember almost bursting my heart (or it felt like it) running up the field to find Lil who has snuck off up into the woods and the last thing I heard was a yelp :(

She was found, a-hunting wabbits :mad:

Glad yours is all ok :D
 
I think she's recovered she's lying on her blanket on the sofa looking quite smug! :rolleyes:

Murphysminder I don't think could have copied for 3 days you must have been going out of your mind!
 
Not much sleep and a lot of tears! I can still remember my mum and I nearly falling down the stairs to get to the phone when it rang in the early morning, and it was 40 odd years ago!
 
So very glad that you recovered your beloved dog. It really is the most awful feeling. Our dog Tilly went missing on a walk for three hours . . . and it was one of the longest, most agonizing waits of my life.

Pleased your hound is home safe and sound. Be kind to yourself tonight.

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I always put Brax in the back of the car with the window half open cos he loves to sit with his head out the window. Never had a problem before.

Except, I got to the horses on Sunday, turned round and said to Brax "we're here".... but he wasn't there. He'd leant on the window button and the window was wide open.

Honestly, the gut wrenching feeling... I was screaming his name, ran up and down our little lane and then leapt in the car and started to drive up the lane - when I got half way up the lane I got out and then suddenly there he was. I was convinced he was going to be squished on the road or something... god, I was screaming and crying, there is nothing like that feeling, was awful. :( He was absolutely fine though, I think he leapt out the car once I had stopped and was stationery, and then he panicked himself when I drove off with the car! Makes me shiver, if he'd jumped out on the main road :S argh.

Glad you found the silly dog! Must have been an awful worry. x
 
So glad you found her but such a horrible thing to happen :(

My parents had a major panic one day when the family dog (which I was totally and utterly obsessed with) went missing when I was at school.

She was found waiting outside the school gates :eek:
 
know exactly how you feel, about 3 weeks ago i parked by the river after finishing my horse in the evening .......started my walk at 6.50, a hare popped across the path and both of mine went after it. my collie cross came back after about 10 mins but my lurcher didnt, after 2 hours i was getting very tearful and had my lovely neighbours and my yard owner all out looking for her. we finally found her at 9.45 as it was getting dark, she was limping and had grazed her eyes in the rape fields.....she is now limited to walking on the extending lead when i am anywhere near the crops, cant wait for harvest time!!!!!
 
Gosh feel your pain OP.

Our two dogs hooned off after a deer on Exmoor once: they were gone for nearly two hours and we hadn't had Jessie (rescue) for very long at all then and were so worried. They DID come back though, eventually - tongues lolling out and totally kn@ckered.

Little man (terrier) frightened me: we'd gone up onto the common parts of which are a nature reserve, and they've got this awful stock fencing up there (just right for getting a dog's head stuck in, silly damn fools for putting it up :() but anyway he hiked off after something and after about half an hour I heard the sound of hooting on the main road nearby but didn't really think much about it. (Just to explain - I'd left the car parked up by this particular main road) - and then I suddenly thought OMG supposing that's little-un up there getting minced by someone.

THEN my mobile rang: and someone said "have you got a little black & tan terrier" - my heart stopped and I thought OMG this is it, he's had it. A lady's voice said "well, I've got him in my house and you can come and pick him up!!!". Bless her, the dear sweet soul had only picked him up, right in the MIDDLE of the main road and right in front of a thundering great lorry, she'd literally scooped him up, and put him in her car, all mucky and horrible, and driven him home to the nearest village where she lived, and shut him in her porch. So I trundled along and picked him up!! And very pleased to see me he was too.

But it made me realise the value of having their name-tags on, coz the outcome might not have been such a happy one if he wasn't easily identifiable. We've got these dog-tags which aren't actually "tags" at all- they're a metal strip thing which just slips on to the dog's collar and can't be dislodged like tags can. They're a bit of a pain coz you have to get old-fashioned collars with a buckle on, but well worth the hassle IMO.

Blimmin dogs!
 
Glad you found her,safe&well. Ours escaped from garden once-bitch came back after a minute hysterically calling their names but dog didn't-dived in car,drove round with window down,calling his name. Passed some riders who said they'd seen him nearby 5mins ago,dived back in car and eventually found him casually sniffing the verge next to a blind bend on a fast road:-o He looked up so surprised to see me! But then casually ambled to car&got in. I was absolutely hysterically beside myself:-/ Thought he'd been squished and drive every corner expecting to find him on the road:( So grateful to this day that he wasn't. A friend's staffie went missing on a walk years ago and they never found him:( Put posters up everywhere,had it mentioned on local radio(days before Internet) and got a few leads that came to nothing. It was like a bereavement, but worse, for my friend,who hoped he was being cared for by someone,somewhere:( So,be grateful you have your poopy safe at home:)
 
So glad you found your dog - it's a horrible feeling when you can't see them. My brother's dog has just been found today after going missing on her walk last Sunday morning - yes over a week!!! We think she must have got stuck down a rabbit hole and has managed to get out as she got thinner - she is very skinny now (and dirty) but vet has checked her over and she's going to be fine. My brother is very relieved and happy.:)
 
There have been some very lucky dogs / owners on this thread :)

Betsy played the 'lets nick off and give my mam a heart attack' game on sat. Luckily she was only awol for half an hour. But she was on farmland (with permission), all I could think of was finding dead chickens / lambs / goats / anything else and having to deal with an angry farmer.

Luckily the little git reappeared looking very proud of herself just as I was about to call my office to get help..... while I was sat on a rock.... crying... in the rain.

She nicked off after a bunny, the bunny had mixie and I really dont think she got it. She is a pants terrier.
 
Ive had my 2 bolt out of sight after deer, its a horrible gut wrenching feeling until they come back after 5-10 mins but it makes you feel helpless and wretched. Mine are kept on a lead one at a time now and I change them over because the 2 of them together would just shoot off.
 
My lab ran off a month or so ago, felt like hours but it was 5 minutes. I found her on the other side of a fence on a camp site running up and down as she couldn't figure out how to get out and she could hear me. She found her way out eventually.
 
Henry turned his ears off and wandered off yesterday:mad:. I knew roughly where he was - I'd done a sudden u-turn and he hadn't heard / listened to my whistle as he had his nose down hunting wabbit smells and goose poo. Then a few minutes later I turned to look for him, thinking he's followed me and he was nowhere to be found:rolleyes: Took another few minutes of whistling for him to show up, I think he was more worried than me this time as he arrived like we hadn't seen each other for years, silly dog:rolleyes::D

He did bog off once in the woods and I was ever so upset, it wasn't an area we'd been to before and I had visions of never seeing him again. It was the first time he'd ever done anything like that - I was in tears:o
 
Its such a horrible feeling though.panic even when i cant find my girl in the house. always think someone has run away with her when really she is hiding upstairs. its the way they always look at you like " eh what??"!!
 
Poor you..I totally sympathise..its just the worst.could relive the feeling with you while I read it, even feel a little rough now just remembering...so VERY glad you found yours:-) my rescue boy had an adventure last year not long after I got him. We had a grassy 100acre field with stock fence and decent gates..he has excellent recall, unless something invites him to race..he loves overtaking deer. Had a good look around, no deer in site,let him off,then like a shot 2 deer pinged off, closely followed by my pocket rocket.they leapt over the stock fence & down a little bit that was a bank by the river,which the bridge for was in the field over looking a very fast flowing bit with a mini waterfall & lots of things to get caught on. I ran as best I could, the light started failing, suddenly the heavens opened I fell over about twice, checked all the river bank and found nothing..suddenly saw the gate loop had bee cut, the chain hanging ad the gate open, so he'd squeezed thru. I ran into the woods calling and trying to sound happy not upset or angry-by this time i resembled a semi drowned wildebeast...just a bit more bedraggled. 45 mins it had been when I still had not found him then I heard a yelp. There were some young bullocks in the big open field so fearing the worst, i scrambled up the bank and over the thin barbed wire fence..the bank was slippery and unforgiving, got my jacket jeans and hair stuck and then saw they were all circling something and the stragglers were lolloping over to investigate.. I didn't know if it was him, but I think my heart had minced itself by now..I ran into the feild shreiking like a banshee and making as much noise & flailing as I could. Sure enough, they turned and started towards me...I could finally see him...he was cowerig, terrified and maaged to made a break for me giving the remaining a wide berth..I ran like a loon back to the bank and slid/fell back to the path but I'd lost site of him again..some of the cattle were pushing thru & I wasn't sure the fence was going to hold (neighbour thinks boundary fences are not in need of safe fencing as cattle know...yes they know how to get onto my nice grass!)anyway, suddenly he scrambled out of the hedge and ran to me shaking..we ran thru the woods into my field & I just crumpled & cried and cried & cried & hugged him. He had hoof marks on his fur and was uber panting, but safe& unscathed somehow..its beyond the worst feeling in the world.

Murphys Minder I don't know how you coped for three days...my phoneless hour was bad enough any longer i think I'd have spontaneously combusted.

OP give your dog a big hug-have to love them...even though i think I snapped my vocal chords that night & sounded like a husky with a frog in its throat for the rest of the week... sending a huge mug of calming favourite hot alcoholic cocoa to anyone who's ever been there...shudder:D:D:D
 
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