He's Home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wonderful!!!!!! I am so glad to hear this!!

:D :D YIPEE!!!! :D :D
welcome home dear delta!!

oh hooraah!! amazwork done, glacier & antare!!

You have a lot of explaining to do fella.

I am so happy for Glacier and hubby. Now they may all sleep.

:)

I had to do a double take when I saw this threads title! :D Then I had to take a moment to clear the tears of joy in my eyes before I could continue to read about his return. Then I thanked God that all the prayers offered by PT members were heard and answered!

WELCOME HOME DELTA!!!!

Tamara, I can just imagine that you are watching Delta and pinching yourself to see if you are dreaming. I'm sure he is the most wonderful thing your eyes have seen in a long time! :D Your dedication and persistence is to be commended! Please give him a {{{{BIG HUG}}}} for me (if he'll let you close enough).

BTW.... I'm a hopeless romantic so I can't wait to hear about the girlfriend! Do you know her? Is she running lose too or was she the neighbors dog? Will he ever see her again?

YAY!!!!!!!

Thank you so much Lord for listening and taking care of Delta until his wonderful family could get him.

I am sooooo happy for you.

Once again, someone needs to give me a late pass. I'm just reading this now, but hey, better late than ever.

WELCOME HOME, SWEET DELTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Glacier (can I call you Tamera), you are a true mommy. You never gave up hope. You are an inspiration to me even more so now. Your dedication and persistance paid off, big time. I'm so thrilled to know you have your sweet boy home. I knew God couldn't ignore so many of our prayers.

Did I see somewhere that you have to take one of the lady's dogs that helped you catch him? Perhaps his new girlfriend?? ;)

God bless you all. I'm so happy you were all reunited. I can't wait to hear Delta's woo story of his adventure.

WOOHOO!!!!!!!!! Crying happy tears here!!! I'm so relieved Delta is finally home. Congrats!

I keep coming back to say:

WELCOME HOME BUD!

We need a "Delta's home" one now :D

P.S. Even my hubby was thrilled to hear that Delta is home - he has trouble understanding how I could get so caught up with a dog that I've never met and probably never will....... :D

Wooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!:D:D:DD Thank GOODNESS!!!!!! Dogs are the most wonderful creatures!! Good boy, Delta!! :)

Just got home from a rough day at work, was sure nice to read such great news> I'm so happy for you! :)

omg, these are wonderful news! :D We were expecting this such along time ago, and I can't believe it is happening! :D

Welcome home, Delta!!!

I'm so happy for all of you, Tamara! We really need to thank God for this...

Thanks everyone. I still can't believe he's really here. I got up at least three times last night just to pet him. He's exhausted. Delta has never slept through a whole night inside before. He was even snoring last night!

His girlfriend is Lady. She's a sweet little lab mix. It was her owner who called me on Thursday. She roams around a bit during the day when her owner is home. A couple days before she had brought Delta home with her from one of her wanderings. She let him stay and shared her food with him. I left all the extra treats I had for her last night. Her owner refused to accept the reward money we were offering. Today I went I bought a gift certificate for the local pet store for Lady and another one to a nice restaurant for her owners.

I also bought a certificate at the pet store for another man on that road. Delta was in his yard yesterday and he let me tromp around on his property for awhile. He even brought me out some raw bacon to try and tempt him with. He has two dogs so I bought them some treats and a gift certificate too.

Dot: I caught him by doing a couple of things. I never walked directly towards him. I came around at an angle. Always with treats in my hand. If he started to move away from me, I either froze on the spot or backed away myself. I let Antare go to the length of the flexi leash so they could sniff each other safely occasionally. The rest of the time I kept Antare very close to me. Lady was eating out of my hand. Delta will sometimes do what the other dogs do so I wanted him to see that the others weren't afraid of me. A couple times he took a treat from my hand and I made no move for his collar. I was pretty sure he was only going to give me one chance so I wanted to make sure I could get him without freaking him out any further.

We have a routine at home where when I want to pet him, I tell him to find a safe place. So I kept whispering to him to find a safe place. After about three hours, he started sitting beside me just out of my reach. Later he moved away on to a pile of snow and laid down. Usually when he lays down that means he's ready to let me handle him. So that was when I moved in for him--slowly and quietly. I had a leash in my pocket. I put that on his collar and then tied it around my arm. He wouldn't walk to the truck so I secured Antare and carried Delta over. He never moved from the front seat where I put him down.

He's keeping his food down today. Last night he puked up everything he ate. I've given him a couple small meals today and that seems to be working. He's laying on a comforter watching me type right now. He's been out in the yard most of the day playing with his buddies. Everyone seemed to remember him and there haven't been any issues there.

That's just such a touching story. Truly your loving and kind patience, your determination and persistence as well as the kindness of all those involved in helping you have made Delta's return possible. And of course I feel that all the heartfelt prayers of Pet Talkers have played a part as well. If you ever write a book about your dogs and the things you and they have gone through, I'll be standing in line to buy it ;).

I agree! You definately need to write a book!! You have so many tales to tell and you are so good at it! :D