I just lost Tori and finally found her, but I'm so upset!

Thank goodness she is home safe. Maybe momma Robin needs to put a bell on Tori's collar when you go out - if the jingling isn't right next to you ... alarm bells SHOULD go off to accompany them!

Robin, first off let me say I'm very relieved and glad you found Tori and that she is safely home. I know about that natural tendency to blame oneself for mishaps, I've done it before, I am very hard on myself when it comes to these kids! I know how it takes time to really settle down from a scare like that too. I hope you're feeling better now though, and know that everyone has lapses in their attention from time to time! I sure have. No one is perfect but you are as close to a perfect doggie Mom as I can imagine! Lots of hugs to you and Katie and Tori. :)

:eek: How scary!! {{{Hugs}}}

Don't be so hard on yourself, Robin! Things like that happens to all of us, when we just aren't thinking, or we get distracted..etc.

I'm glad that Tori is home now, and thank god she had her tags on! I always worry about my 3 because they don't wear collars :(

Awww Robin, don't beat yourself up. Everyone has those moments when they just aren't thinking. We all know how much you love your girls and would never want them in harm's way. Its over now and Tori is home safe, so you can relax and know that you probably won't ever let that happen again. I'm glad it was just a 30 minute ordeal and not longer. And thank goodness for tags!

I hope you can take a nice, relaxing bath or something today to relieve some of that tension I'm sure you're still feeling :)

What a scare!
I can imagagine the pit in your stomach your
were feeling.
Had that feeling when a rainbow bridge dog
got out of our back yard.

Glad she is home safe.
(((Hugs)))

Poor Robin!!! {{hugs}}

Tori don't scare you're mom like that!! No more Jaunts!!!
Having a greyhound I remember those days!!:( It stinks!

I am so glad to hear that this story has a happy ending! How scary for you, Robin!! This was not your fault, accidents happen no matter how careful you are. I think it's safe to say that everybody here can relate to this, and also how hard it is not to be hard on yourself, but we all know you are a kind, loving mom to your furkids! Give that little redhead a hug from me and tell her never to scare her mom like that again!!:)

Well, she is a husky! It's in the genes- so few people believe it when they hear that they'll take off any chance they get. It's true. Glad to hear she got back ok - Star took off once & she was found up the street greeting people at a yard sale!!!:D
Hope you can calm down soon too - HUGS

Oh, Robin, I am so glad you got Tori back safe and sound! How scared you must have been.

Taggert got away from me twice in one week. I was so mad at him and at myself. And when he runs he runs. The last time he went toward Main Street where there is a lot of truck traffic. I was so scared he would try to cross the street and get hit. But the cars and trucks whizzing past scared him so he ran back down the street. However it still took me forever to catch him. I am way too old to chase him any more and so I alternate between praying and yelling at him - go ahead, get hit see if I care as I am puffing and huffing after him. And even though I am still mad at him when I do catch him, I give him a big hug and hold him tight for a few minutes.

That last time I couldn't even see where he went, so I got in the car and headed to Main Street. I caught sight of him, threw the car in park, hopped out and started chasing him. And then I realized what I did, I left the car running on the side of Main Street and was chasing that crazy dog! I could just see me calling Carl in Florida and saying Honey, Taggert ran away and I couldn't find him and someone stole the car when I left it running on Main street! But it's okay because I chased Taggert all the way home!

Oh, I forgot another time we were getting ready to go to the dog park and somehow he got away from me. He ran the other way - not towards Main Street but I still got in the car to go after him. Some lady was walking him back towards me (he had his leash on even when he got away). I jammed the brakes on, hopped out of the car and said that's my dog. She looked at me and asked me where I lived since she had looked at the tags. We live in a 2 street subdivision out away from the city. I just looked at her like what other idiot would be racing around in the car with the windows down yelling Taggert if it were not their dog!

Ohhh Diana, you had me laughing!!! I'm sorry. I know its not really funny at the time..but I just can't help but get this mental picture of you hopping out of your car and leaving it running. I don't think Carl would have liked getting that phone call. Didn't you feel so stupid driving around with your windows down hollering for Taggert. I know I did today when I was hollering for Tori. Oh the things our pups put us through!!!

Thanks everyone for making me feel better and not making me feel worse about my stupid stupid mistake!!! Most of all thanks for caring about Tori being safe. That means so much to me. She has been a good little girl this evening and mostly sleeping. Here is a pic I took of her a little bit ago. She is such a goofy husky girl!!

Thanks again....Robin :)

That was not your fault! That was an accident...
I´m really glad Tori´s home and safe ;)

Oh Robin. *hugs* I know that fear all too well!! Please don't blame yourself. It was just an accident.

Just last week Zam took off on me and I was searching for her for a half hour (posted in Cat General).

I remember the first year I had Kia, she went on many walkabouts that nearly stopped my heart. :eek: :( And my dad's!

I'm just glad Tori is home safe. :)

Thanks Liga and Kimmy. Tori is standing right here with her head resting on my leg and she says hi. She is being such a sweetie today. I promised her a walk and she is patiently waiting for me to get off the computer....lol. I have been here forever ;)

Kimmy, I didn't know that Zam had taken off too. I'm so glad she is safe now. I really need to check out the kitties more often, you need to point out to me when you post pics of your gorgeous kitties!

Robin :)

I am sooo glad you found your Tori! I so totally understand how you felt. Sequoia got away from me one morning. She was tied on the porch and had gotten herself wrapped around a lilac bush. While I was trying to untangle her she kept jumping around...one of the jumps we both suddenly realized at the same time that I was holding the lunge line and it wasn't attached to her anymore:eek: :eek: . She took off around the house at a dead run and down through the meadow and into the woods faster than I could even think.

We live in the mountains of PA so we don't have a lot of neighbors. So there I am...all 250 pounds of me...in the summer...no bra :o racing after her (like I thought I could catch her) screaming her name at the top of my lungs. We had only had her at our house a few times up till then and hadn't decided to keep her yet. I had only picked her up from the foster home about 30 minutes before because we were taking her to the trainer to be evaluated that afternoon. So the few neighbors we have didn't know her and she didn't have any tags on at all. Once I couldn't see her anymore I raced....well.... at that point I was walking slowly and wheezing and heaving....back towards the house. I was going to get the car and start driving about.

I heard the rooster that lived in the neighborhood at that point squawking up a storm. I knew then where my Sequoia was. I ran across the street and there she was...throwing that poor thing in the air playing with it. As far as she was concerned it was a big moving squeaky toy!:( :eek: :rolleyes: I got her to stand still for me and grabbed her coller. The neighbor who's house she was at came out and they shot the rooster. He was a tough ole bird too. He had lived up there in the mountains for a couple of years just foraging for himself and roosting where he felt like it.

The second time we had decided at that point to keep her and she had been with us for several weeks. We would take her out on the lunge line I had when I was working horses and play ball with her and allow her to run about. My husband had attached the line and I guess the clip hadn't been done right..they got to the driveway and there was the line lying on the pavement not on Sequoia's collar.

She didn't run that time though. She knew she wasn't hooked up anymore...she danced in front of us and wouldn't let us catch her but she was more interested in playing ball than running away. I went in the house and chased all the cats in the bedroom. I then stood in the doorway and called her..she ran into the house so fast she almost hit the wall on the opposite side of the door.

I check and pray all the time that a walkabout will never happen again. Now at least most the neighbor's knows who she belongs too. But if she got loose and saw a herd of deer???:eek: :eek: Who knows how far she would run?!?!?!


Denyce