What A Scare!!

[lbaker]

Oh swoon, swoon, oh boy! More pictures for my Drake collection!

[RobiLee]

What a scare! I'm so glad that things turned out alright. What a sight that must have been to see him sitting there beside the car. This is my worse fear for Katie. I can't let her off leash at all. My pup never stops running. This is one thing that really bothers me. I wish I was able to just say Let go for a ride and we could go from the front door to the car without the leash but if she is off leash she will take off as soon as the door opens.

Drake don't ever scare you mommy and daddy like that again. You are much to precious to them!!

Robin

[Logan]

I would have had a heart attack, right then and there. I'm so glad it all worked out, but I know you must still be trembling from the whole thing.

Hugs to all of you, from all of us! That's a lot of hugs too!!!!

[K9karen]

Whew! I'm so glad Drake's ok..he was probably wondering what took you guys so long to find him! What a smart pup! But also a little nawty for scaring you so much...

For the first few months, Logan was terrific at coming when called. I let her lose at a local school yard, in their huge double sized football field. After feeling her oats, she decided that any moving critter was fair game, so now I learned to keep her on lead. She did a "slip" through the garage door a few months back when my boyfriend and I were cleaning. He went down the street to get her (yep, schoolyard squirrels) but she ran back past him and right back to me as I was about to walk up the street..with an innocent "I didn't do anything" look! My heart as in my mouth too!

[Barbara]

I am so glad Drake is back! And it was very clever of him to go back to the car.

My parents' late doxie also tried to hunt deer and you could never take her to the woods without a leash (If she was in a hunting mood she didn't listen to anything)

The legal situation (for woods) is the following: If you walk on the paths the dog does not have to be on a leash, but if you walk croos-country, he has to. So Drake -in a wood, in a park there may be other (generally rather more) restrictions- was not allowed to chase the deers. And in the woods this could have been very dangerous. Because the huntsmen who have the right to hunt there (in Germany this is a defined person - hunting is never free) can shot a "poaching" dog or cat!

When I was living in Northern Germany in the middle of nowhere in the fields I could not have cats because we had a guy nearby who owned the hunt and had shot lots of cats This was even legal as soon as he met them 200 yds from the next house!

[captain]

Souraya,

Thank doG he went back to the car!!!!!

Captain did that once - although he does LOVE to run, and run, and run ........ ignoring his frantic Mum!

John was in the car, and Captain loves to run all over following the car along the way. John took him (before we had Ruby monster) down to the dirt road we run him on, like normal ....... and he bolted around in the paddocks .......... and disappeared.
John called and called and called, reversed up and down the road ........ NOTHING! So he came home and got me (it was 6:30am!), woke me up saying "I have lost Captain" .........


Off we went, calling, and calling ...... staying on the same patch of road ...... went into the farmhouses, leaving my number just in case ......... John went off down a road across the railway line looking for him, and I rode further along the road, heading for the pound .....

And there, in the middle of the road sat Captain .... at the split in the dirt road about 1km away. Just waiting, .......... he was a clever boy, because the dirt road splits in two and sometimes we go one way, and sometimes the other, so he sat there and waited for us.

OH the relief, the tears ....... Souraya, I relived it with the Drakester!