I am sooo glad you found your Tori! I so totally understand how you felt. Sequoia got away from me one morning. She was tied on the porch and had gotten herself wrapped around a lilac bush. While I was trying to untangle her she kept jumping around...one of the jumps we both suddenly realized at the same time that I was holding the lunge line and it wasn't attached to her anymore . She took off around the house at a dead run and down through the meadow and into the woods faster than I could even think.

We live in the mountains of PA so we don't have a lot of neighbors. So there I am...all 250 pounds of me...in the summer...no bra racing after her (like I thought I could catch her) screaming her name at the top of my lungs. We had only had her at our house a few times up till then and hadn't decided to keep her yet. I had only picked her up from the foster home about 30 minutes before because we were taking her to the trainer to be evaluated that afternoon. So the few neighbors we have didn't know her and she didn't have any tags on at all. Once I couldn't see her anymore I raced....well.... at that point I was walking slowly and wheezing and heaving....back towards the house. I was going to get the car and start driving about.

I heard the rooster that lived in the neighborhood at that point squawking up a storm. I knew then where my Sequoia was. I ran across the street and there she was...throwing that poor thing in the air playing with it. As far as she was concerned it was a big moving squeaky toy! I got her to stand still for me and grabbed her coller. The neighbor who's house she was at came out and they shot the rooster. He was a tough ole bird too. He had lived up there in the mountains for a couple of years just foraging for himself and roosting where he felt like it.

The second time we had decided at that point to keep her and she had been with us for several weeks. We would take her out on the lunge line I had when I was working horses and play ball with her and allow her to run about. My husband had attached the line and I guess the clip hadn't been done right..they got to the driveway and there was the line lying on the pavement not on Sequoia's collar.

She didn't run that time though. She knew she wasn't hooked up anymore...she danced in front of us and wouldn't let us catch her but she was more interested in playing ball than running away. I went in the house and chased all the cats in the bedroom. I then stood in the doorway and called her..she ran into the house so fast she almost hit the wall on the opposite side of the door.

I check and pray all the time that a walkabout will never happen again. Now at least most the neighbor's knows who she belongs too. But if she got loose and saw a herd of deer??? Who knows how far she would run?!?!?!


Denyce