I feel bad...Jake, my Dog ran away

[czechsonofagun]

Experience? It is regular event for us. Venus - great pyreneese - typically leaves in the morning for a stroll in the neighborhood and comes back. I keep fixing our fences and she keeps digging holes. When any of the two airedales go with her, they are gone for 24 - 48 hours. When the two airedales run away together, we always get a call from somebody to come and collect them. They all have laser tags with name, address and phone number on the collar.

Airedales Montmorency and Clementine took off last 4th July and we got the call Sunday night from a place 8 miles away. We blamed it on the fireworks and brought them home. Those two bastages spent two days laying around the house pretending they are tired and limping and not climbing any steps and overall ready to go to physical therapy. Than on Tuesday they took of again and made five miles before 2PM - that's when the phone call came. I was so agitated I was ready to break them into 16 small puppies. After that they spent 7 days tied to different parts of the porch making guilty faces.

I hope your dog comes back or somebody finds him; been there many many times.

 

[Mousefield]

Hope Jake comes back safe and sound. Our neighbors sheltie/border collie cross went missing for over 3 weeks. The owner was sure he was dead but turned up alive and well about 10 miles away.
Happy ending so hope yours turns out just as well.

 

[Matt_Jr]

Hope Jake comes back. I know that feeling you have. That's a terrible feeling. When my hound and the wife's pug took off together one morning after a bath, they didn't have their collars on yet, and I only left the yard for a few seconds to answer the phone. I panicked. I knew the hound would come back, but pugs aren't that good. My wife would have used the kubota to bury me. I'm sure of it. I drove up and down the street, the next street up, than the next street up, with my head out the window whistling(the hound is trained to come when I whistle for her, the pug never picked up on it). Then I found the pug in the animal control woman's arms, getting ready to be loaded into the truck. She handed him over, and said he almost licked her to death, and said she saw the hound jump off a small ridge and leave the pug behind. She was able to catch our pug 'cause he just stood there watching the hound run down the mountain and he was too small to be able to make the jump. When I got home the hound was sitting on the porch wondering why I whistled for her, but wouldn't open the door to let her in. She takes off every once in a while, usually not for more than an hour, but the pug is walked supervised. He has no sense of how to get back.

 

[WayneB]

Brittany's are bird dogs and will run when given the chance. Our neighbor breeds them and has 7 of them that run on our property. Really great dogs but they need to be out and running. I hope Jake comes back to you. We take our wiredhair pointer out for a run twice a day or he is impossible around the house.

 

[galen1115]

Brin we had a weird thing happen this winter. My son's golden always stays near their house on 4 acres. I mean near the house. Never wanders. We had a Christmas snow of 18 inches. The next day my son let her out to potty and she was gone. The next 7 days we found nothing. Looked everywhere. Just vanished. Called for her at night but just couldn't figure it out. My son acted like his own child was missing. He really loves that dog. (Sadie) Then on the 7th night she was missing, after the coldest nights of the winter -10 to nights and another snow of 4 inches, Bryant's neighbor heard a faint dog bark at about 3 O'Clock in the morning. Craig has 20 acres next to Bryant's. Craig went out looking for her in the direction he heard that morning. Sure enough Craig found her under a big Eastern Red Cedar tree. The tree was shelter for her with very little snow under it. You could see she had been there for days. And where she had bed down. She had stayed put. We all thought she could not have survived. But she did. Yours will too.

 

[dcyrilc]

We've got our fingers crossed for you. Hope he comes home ok.

 

[dex3361]

I had an Austrailian Shepard come up missing for 2 weeks and my neighbor told me he saw her at his work about 10 miles away. He swore it was my dog I went looking in that area and came up empty. 2 days later she showed up at the house she seemed to be in good shape like someone had been caring for her. I figured some one had taken her and she got away and found her way home. I hope you find your dog they can be great friend.

 

[riggerjack]

dogs have incredible sense of smell. they can differentiate between skin and skin cancer better by smell than doctors can with all of modern medicine. the only trick i know of to help a dog come home, is to take a load of your dirty clothes, and place them in a field, then check them in the morning. often times the dog will come sleep on the clothes that smell of the pack. clothes smelling of the alpha of the household should work best. good luck!

 

[brin]

Thanks to you all...for the encouragment ..Jake is still not home and we driven and walked everywhere we can and leave the lights on for him every night..last night was the 2nd night and it is in the 20's here at night..I sure hope he finds his way back..I told the mail lady about it today so she could keep a lookout and the first thing she said is " someone will steal him " he is such a beautiful dog..." That is what I am afraid of ..we are in a rural area and he is a bird dog afterall..Thanks so much for the encouragement and stories, helps alot.

 

[Richard]

I'm rooting for Jake's return!

We've had one or two of our dogs (6) disappear for a day before but thus far, they've always returned. I live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by even more of nothing. Whey they disappear it's very hard for us to go searching for them as we have probably more than 1,000 acres (not ours but including the surrounding land that is bordered by a lake) in which to look. Where does one start?!?!?!

Good luck with Jake.