Terrible Night

[cmayer31]

/start rant

So Fridays are always busy nights at my house and I'm always careful to put Frankie in my room because I know at some point in time the front door will be left open. Frankie has a very single track mind when it comes to open doors: If open sneak through, check to make sure no one noticed, and then run like crazy. She has done this since she was about 8 weeks old.

So tonight was a little worse because one of the roommates is in a band and he was playing a show tonight, so everyone was over and celebrated more than normal. I gave everyone the lecture about leaving doors open and that no one should touch my door at all, and everyone should check the front door behind them.

Guess who didn't close my door all the way AND held the front door open while talking? Me. Frankie did her ninja sneak, got out of arm range, and ran. I took off after her and everyone in the house cleared out and formed search groups with the DDs in cars and the rest on foot or bikes. I lost sight of her while getting more people to help and never did catch up to her again. I was able to call another roommate and let him know where she tries to go on our walks. Luckily he was able to get her near the spot that I guessed she would go to.

So everyone's calmed down, Frankie is in her crate as happy as can be, and I have ice on my knee from aggravating an old injury. All in all a terrible night.

Thanks for letting me vent.
/end rant.

[Ginger's Mom]

Sorry to hear you had such a rough night, but I am glad to hear that Frankie is home and safe. It's nice that all of your friends came together to help get her home. I hope Frankie realizes what a lucky girl she is.

[cyber-sibes]

I'm glad Frankie was found & all is well. Don't feel too bad about leaving the door open yourself - I did this just last week. Sherman was leashed & literally pulled me out of the kennel fence door, Star followed & I thought "I'll close the gate when we come home". An hour into dinner at a restaurant with a friend, I realized I never did close the gate because I put them in from another side. Made a frantic call to my neighbor, who thankfully ran over t& closed it, and made sure boh my pups were still inside. Bless their little furry hearts, they were lounging on the patio couch & probably didn't realize freedom was only a few steps away. I sure felt stupid.

[pitc9]

I'm glad Franke is home safe! You are blessed to have friends to help like they did!!

Pat... that's too funny! They didn't even know they had the world in their paws and could have been traveling! Glad they stayed home! Guess that means they know how good they have it at home!

[shais_mom]

wow
I'm glad she's safe and sound.
Ibprofen and ice - dad!

I had a greyhound that was a master escape artist.
She would follow my nephew from door to door b/c she knew he'd let her out!

Frankie give your dad a break this weekend!

[Daisy and Delilah]

Sounds like a very bad night for sure. Isn't it amazing how you can go from "YAY---TGIF--YAY!!!" to "OMG--I'm in a complete panic!!"

My RB Benny was a master escape artist too. No dog on earth could have been more clever than Benny at running away the second your head turned. Every time he pulled this stunt, I lost another part of me. He was relentless with it. He was smart enough to know exactly what he was doing and how much trouble he would be in when he got back too. He simply just didn't care It was more fun to go ahead and do it!!
I'm glad everything at your place turned out okay. Stay in that house, Frankie!! Dad needs rest! Take care of that knee.

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

That's awful. I'm glad to hear she's safe, and all is well now though.