Terrible Night

[Freedom]

Since Frankie has a habit of doing this, and as you know just where to look to find the pup, I suggest that this has all become a game for Frankie!

Not sure what you DO about that, and I am glad that you are both back home.

[cmayer31]

Thanks for letting me vent everyone! I enjoyed reading the other stories too and I'm glad that they turned out all right.

Since Frankie has a habit of doing this, and as you know just where to look to find the pup, I suggest that this has all become a game for Frankie!

Not sure what you DO about that, and I am glad that you are both back home.

Oh it's more than a game to her. She really does have wander lust and wants to go everywhere. The game part is the escape, but once she's out it's more than a game of chase, it's sniff and see the world. When she was about a year old she discovered that she can open screen doors and took off. We searched for three days and had sightings of her in a ten mile radius of the house. She was finally caught at the school on the corner of the street; she made it back to within 100 yards of the house.

The only reason I guessed she went up the cul-de-sac is because at full sprint I can keep her within eye sight. After being at full sprint in the direction that I thought she went and not seeing her on the sidewalk it hit me that she made the only turn possible on our street, and sure enough she went up to the dead end. It was just a really lucky guess on my part. The street that I was running on is a very busy shortcut through town and she's escaped onto that twice in the year that we've been here; once she ran up to a car at a red light and tried to hop in.

Our yard is secure, and it's been the humans that have given her the opportunity each time.

Ibprofen and ice - dad!

Yup, got to love RICE. Rest Ice Compression Elevation.. and pills.

[Kalei]

Wow, that must have sucked. I"m glad that you and your doggy is okay. My parents had a dog years ago that did that too and it was very scary. Specially when that dog knew how to find the highway...that was scary. Unfortunately we were moving and my parents had to give her away. And the stupid new owners wouldn't listen to them and let her loose and she got killed by a transport truck I was really young then.

Anyways I'm glad you are both okay and I hope that you can fix the problem somehow.