Possibly the most frightening day ever :(

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This morning at 5am OH & I set off from Somerset to Kent to visit my very elderly aunt, I wanted to cook her a full Christmas Dinner because she will be on her own over Christmas, and was planning on coming back home tomorrow.

The children were left in charge of the animals (the children are 18 & 16 btw ;) ) who are both very responsible and I trust them 100%.

At about 2pm my son rang me to say that Rosie had gone :( She is the worst houdini ever and I have fenced every inch of the garden, she hasn't got out for weeks and weeks. In the past when she has got out a few calls and whistles and she slinks back - she has never been gone for more than 15/20 mins and I am almost sure she just goes over to the farm.

However it turns out she had been gone for an hour, he had been out looking for her, whistling, calling. Been over the farm, down to the shoot room. He found the gamekeeper who went around the whole farm feeding birds looking for her.

I rang all the neighbours (all four of them in a five mile radius) and they all offered to keep an eye out and ring me or Ben if they saw her. One neighbour said he would take his dogs where I usually walk in the hope it would bring her out.

By 4pm she still hadn't come home :( Ben called his Dad who came over and they went out in the truck driving around looking for her.

As you can imagine, I was beside myself with worry in Kent!

By 6pm - still no sign. I couldn't think of anything else to try. She is microchipped but actually she is not a people dog, she would never go off with someone (unlike my other two) so unless she had been hit by a car or handed in..... but then hopefully someone would have scanned her.

OH and I took the decision to drive home - my son was going out and I had terrible visions of someone knocking on the door with a dead Rosie and my daughter having to deal with it on her own. Unfortunately it is a 4 hr drive home minimum but off we set (poor Aunty :( )

By 7.30pm and still no sign I had to admit to myself that I was facing the worst now and am not ashamed to say that I cried buckets :(

At 8.30 (we were about an hour and a half from home) daughter rang to say that Rosie is back! OMG - you have absolutely no idea how I felt.

Apparently she was plastered from head to toe in mud with cuts on her nose. But by the time I got home daughter had cleaned her off and fed her.

Rosie is totally exhausted, she can barely keep her eyes open and even though she did manage to get off the settee when I got home, she is so stiff in her back legs she is walking like Toby :(

Her pads are not scuffed, her claws are not showing any more sign of wear and actually the cuts on her nose are just a slight scuff. So I can only imagine she got caught up somewhere and has spent hours struggling to get free - just a thought of course because actually, we will never know what has happened :(

Now this may of course be total coincidence and probably is but OH who left about 20 mins ago has just rang to tell me that the moor is crawling with police, four cars and a helicopter out (I can hear it now) so I have no idea what is going on out there but he told me to lock the doors just to be on the safe side :(

What a bloody horrendous day :( Although on the bright side - the Christmas dinner I cooked was superb ;)

I am now enjoying an extremely large G&T :rolleyes:
 
can't believe this was the first post i saw when i opened the forum! the wee jrt on our yard went after a fox this morning and still gone. we have been all over the estate whistling and shouting and still no sign. worried sick about her. so scared that she is caught somewhere or down a hole and can't get out. she is a right wee hunter so has gone off before but for no longer than about 45 mins. don't think her owner (or me) will get much sleep tonight! Glad you got yours back though. x
 
Oh Good Grief FF - what a worry, I know exactly how you all feel :(

Fingers crossed you find her tomorrow x

Bloody animals - who'd have 'em :rolleyes:
 
Oh bless you RW, what a horrible thing to happen, so glad she is back with you.
Our old girl went missing for four days, we thought she'd been shot, stolen or had fallen into a fire dam (they are sheer-sided around here) she trotted into the yard at 11pm one night with not a speck of mud on her (it was wet, wet, wet out there) so we think someone had her and let her go because we kicked up such a stink.
B's run off on me twice and it is a horrible feeling.

Funny you should post about this but this morning I looked over the yard and the pup's kennel door was wide open...I nearly threw up...then remembered I had put him in the exercise pen ten minutes earlier, I am such a div!!!

Wonder what the moor drama is?!

Hope the JRT turns up FNF x
 
Four days!!!! OMG, you must have thought her gone forever :(

I can still hear the helicopter, it is circling around the valley - hope to God everyone is ok :(
 
''Now this may of course be total coincidence and probably is but OH who left about 20 mins ago has just rang to tell me that the moor is crawling with police, four cars and a helicopter out (I can hear it now) so I have no idea what is going on out there but he told me to lock the doors just to be on the safe side''

ooh maybe it's the monster of the moors! lol

cc your one missing for 4 days gives me hope. I am just hoping that she is curled up by someones fire tonight and they return her in the morning! It was -2 when i got back at 9.30pm.

you are right though RW, be it horses, dogs, whatever, they are a constant worry!
 
Both mine went missing on a walk nearly 2 months ago now,they were found 27 hours later.:eek:

But it's a horrible experience and all sorts of awful things go through your mind.

I really hope the JRT is ok and is found tomorrow.
 
I totally empathise with all of you who have lost your beloved dog for even 5 mins and thought the worst, its just so horrendous. One of my whippets disappeared on a walk last month - that is nothing new but they are always back fairly promptly and do respond to the whistle. But this time Finny was gone for almost an hour and what freaked me out was the sight of some really strange vehicles racing around a nearby stubble field - when i appeared they shot off, hit the main road and were gone in a cloud of rubber smoke. Of course my mind instantly assumed they had my dog. I imagined him in the back of a car, terrified, being driven down the road to what end i could only imagine. I ended up howling and at one point fell to my knees in the field in despair. i was utterly broken and imagined him freezing cold and starving, being mistreated and used for coursing or whatever. It was truly one of the worst moments of my entire life.

Then out of the maize field pops Finley, grinning and wagging his tail and not too keen on the rib crushing hug and death by drowning in tears he got from me.

I was quite traumatised and it took me a few days before i felt normal again.

So to any of you who have lost a dog/pet, my heart goes out to you. Our over active imaginations make it just so hard to cope. XX
 
Horrible feeling when one goes missing isn't it, that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach, have had a few scares with various dogs myself over the years and luckily have always found them.
My non doggy friends can't understand why I make such a fuss over my dogs and how I don't always like people!
Glad you all got your dogs back in the end, Oz :)
 
finnywinny (great name ;)) how awful and that is exactly how I felt, completely and utterly sick to the core. I can picture your relief when he came trotting back wondering what all the fuss was about :rolleyes:

Oz - I know, ridiculous how we get ourselves in such a state over the animals!
 
God what a nightmare, my last Heelers would often catch a rabbit in the hedge and wouldnt come out until they had eaten it. I would leave them because they were in our fields, no roads and they would always hurry home.

A couple of years ago my friends Greyhound I was looking after disappeared from the garden, someone had left the gate open. I was terrified running around the outside of the house calling her, after 5mins of no show I rang another friend who came straight up with her husband and 2 sons and we drew up a plan of action as to where to look. Luckily my friend found her in the village lying on someones lawn perfectly happy and she brought her home. I suppose she must have been missing about half an hour it seemed like an eternity and I must have died a thousand times and having to break the news to my friends as she was their baby. I did tell them and said I wouldnt blame them if they didnt want me to have her another time but they were more concerned about me and how worried they knew I would be.
 
Oh God poor you, that sounds horrendous! I have lost Dash and Oscar before now and it makes you feel utterly sick and helpless :( A few months ago I got a GPS collar for Dash (Oscar has give up wandering in favour of sleeping now lol) and, although expensive, it has already paid for itself twice over in terms of peace of mind: now if I can't find him I just look on my phone and voila, I have his precise location :) (In fact the little b*gger is usually in the same spot hunting rabbits and looks shocked when I turn up and bust him :rolleyes: :D )
 
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