OMG!!!!!!!!MY BABY'S GONE!!!!!!!! - Page 8

 Hodie, I totally agree.  My dogs are never, ever loose without me, even though there are 30 acres between me and the road.  Game wardens are required to kill dogs they see running deer in my state, not to mention the fact that I don't want some individual helping himself to a free "po-leece dawg".  To make matters worse, if the dog ends up in a shelter or pound in this state the real owner has ten days to find it, or it becomes available for adoption and becomes the adopter's legal property.

I hope the original poster finds the dog.

Any luck yet?  I keep hoping to read that the dog is home....Good Luck. jackie harris

First of all, I hope you find your dog...  I lost one of my sheps before it was a gruelling 5 days, but someone found him, I think they wanted to keep him, and luckily he had an ID tag, so they did the right thing and called, they went on and on about how terrific he was...  He was 10 miles away!!!  That is far from me...  After that, none of my dogs were never unattended again...  I live pretty much in the middle of no where, I do let my dogs out, but I am with them ever since that happened...  Even though you are not happy about hearing about the same crap over and over again, you will think twice before you let her out to run the neighborhood, I know I thought of it everytime, and I was lucky...  I really hope she comes home to you soon...  Good luck... 

do not get me wrong, when she comes back she will NEVER be out of might sight again.  Never ever ever ever again.

Hi Micky D, hope you are doing well.

The bad news here in my state is the people have between 3 and 7 days to pick up a dog from a shelter before it goes up for adoption or is put down. Also, besides all the issues mentioned about loose dogs, the fact too is that dogs are picked up by strangers driving by and that often ends any chance the dog will be reunited unless there is a tag or microchip on the dog. The worst thing is that a dog could be hit by a car and injured. I am sure the OP has scoured the area on foot looking for the dog, so hopefully that is not the case. Unfortunately, when a dog is not found quickly, the chances of finding the dog begin to drop very quickly. I take a lot of flack from people who want to buy or adopt a dog when I refuse to do so because of the lack of a properly fenced confinement area. But, with such a proper confinement area, the chances are far better the dog will never be lost. 

Hope you find your girl! I would be devastated.....

I live on 150 acres...My dogs are hardly ever on a leash when on our property. They like to run next to the tractor when cutting and bailing hay - chasing and stomping on the mice that are uncovered...but I NEVER leave them unattended. There is plenty of room for them to run and enjoy themselves off leash...but being unattended could be disaster...

Prayers are with the pup- may her feet be swift to carry her home!


Amanda

We had a 2 tracking dogs come out yesterday from Hearts United for Animals.  He had us take him to the 2 locations where people have said they saw her.  The most recent siting location was 2 miles north of our house, he took out the dogs seperately and would give them the scent article, they both gave him the "no scent" signal.  She was never there.  When we took him to the very first siting location wich was 9 days ago, both dogs picked up on her scent and followed it.  Since the scent was 9 days old they had a hard time staying with it.  Thes tracking dogs have only been doing this type of work for 8 months.  Karen Tarqwyn's dogs have been tracking for years.  She was the one that put me in touch with john from H.U.A.  Since she cant get here til next week we wanted to get someone out here to try and narrow down where she had actually been, so when Karen gets here we can get started in that area first.  Keep your fingers crossed and keep praying.  I know I am. And she did have her collar on with all of her tags when she went missing and she is micro-chipped Hodie.  Thank You.

"They like to run next to the tractor when cutting and bailing hay - chasing and stomping on the mice that are uncovered..."

my brother in law used to let his dog follow him out in the fields, too.  one day he was picking corn and his beautiful bicolored male  spotted a rabbit and jumped right into the cornhead after it.  it cut off all his legs.  bob stopped the combine immediately, but there was nothing he could do to save the dog.  he ran all the way to the house for his gun.  the dog was still screaming in pain when he returned.  he has not had a gsd since and has not allowed any dog to follow him to the field.
just a word to the wise.  i hope you will consider this before letting your dogs participate in hay cutting.
pjp

Dont give up hope. For Christmas my uncle came 12 hours to visit. During, one of of prized little shelties went missing. We spent countless hours searching for her until one day she finally decided to come back. We dont know how she found her way back since she was in a strange place and NEVER even spent a night outside. It was a miracle...but they do happen.

Here is a picture of her sitting with all of our hard work and effort!