Okay, so you know I use Invisible Fence. Well, Thursday morning I let my dogs out of their kennel and went inside to comb my hair and eat breakfast...without putting their IF collars on them. I looked out the window when I was done, they were sniffing around the yard. I put my sneakers on and went out to take them on a bike ride; NO DOGS!!!!!! 2 minutes...thats all it took for them to disappear. I was mad at them...for the first 15 minutes. But when I had called and called and biked down the road both ways looking for them, I was worried. We are surrounded by cornfields that haven't been harvested yet, so there was no way I could see them. I drove around looking and calling and about a mile from our place I was on a bridge over the interstate that's being constructed and I look down and saw them running as fast as they could down the paved section of the interstate. I asked a construction worker if I may go look for them and he said I could, but by the time I got there they were gone again. I thought like a dog for a few minutes and decided to check the turkey barns not far from where I had last seen them. I know the guy that owns the turkeys and he said he'd let me know if they showed up. Worst of all, when I saw the dogs they were headed in the direction of the highway, with about a mile to go. After searching for hours I finally gave up and spent the day worrying about them. I checked the highway, turkey barns, and construction several times. I went to bed that night hoping they'd come home overnight. They didn't. I got up early and made flyers with their picture and posted them several places before I went to work. Finally, at 11:15, my mom sent me a picture of my dogs laying under the van, tired, dirty and happy. They had showed up at the neighbors house and his son brought them home.I rushed home to hug them and ended up taking Buddy to the vet to remove grass seeds from his eyes and get pain medication because he was really stiff and sore from so much running. I'm really grateful to have such a great boss; she let me have off for an hour over lunch, and again for 1 1/2 hr. to take Buddy to the vet. I am extremely thankful to have my darlings home again, and now I know...never leave the dogs unsupervised without their collars.
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they would have to tell.
Buddy slept the whole way to the vet and back yesterday and that is NOT normal. This morning I took Lolli on a bike ride just to make sure she uses up her energy, and she didn't want to run...all she did was trot beside my bike the whole way. Buddy is too sore to want a bike ride. Maybe they learned their lesson???? 
So glad it all turned out 
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