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I'm sorry you had such a scary experience!!! Our dog is still a puppy but I don't know that he'll ever be able to not be on a lead, and we're putting up a fence ASAP too :)
So glad everything worked out and he came back!
@Corgi,
I'm glad you found him.
But that is exactly why we NEVER let our dog off her leash. You just never know. Something can attract their attention and off they go! And who knows there can be a car coming etc. There's so many things that can happen that is out of your and your dog's control. It drives me bonkers when people walk their dogs w/o leashes too.
OH my! I completely understand! We dont leash our dog, well we live out in the boonies outside of Columbus actually :) and I only have one neighbor. We have 5 acres and the land around the house is farmed so theres a mutual agreement that their dogs can go on our land as our dog who is still new to all this space can go on theirs. However, this bit me in the bum one day. I work night shift and was running late one day for work and it was in Jan so it was so dark out! Well he decided that he wanted to chase the garbage truck down the road and then decide to hit the field across the way to chase some deer. Fast forward about 30 minutes of searching he comes stomping up the drive with a rabbit in mouth and jumps on my white scrubs as if it is a present to me! Not only am I know muddy, a complete mess bc I fear my dog is going to get killed by a car or coyote, I now have a dead rabbit at my feat with a lab grinning and wagging his tail like he just hit the jackpot. Dogs are crazy, but I love mine to death!
Yes! Put your dogs on a leash! My dog hates other dogs, really just dislikes every dog although she oddly loves cats. Often people don't put their dogs on a leash around my apartment complex and these dogs will run right up to her face and she tries to take a bite out of them. I've had people yell at me that we should take her to training (oh we have) and I'm like "PUT YOUR DOG ON A LEASH. THIS IS WHY MY DOG IS ON A LEASH"
I totally agree with you all! And for the record I was never one of those walk the dog without a leash people because stew is WAY too friendly and likes to greet everyone and not everyone likes to be greeted :) But I did often let him go from house to car, or out the back door to do his business without a lead. I guess I felt like if it was on the property I (or a family member) owns then its okay because he has never run off before.... but I was totally wrong. Don't trust the dog!
Yikes, scary stuff! I'm glad you guys found him pretty quickly. The story is the same for my childhood dog. She was so well behaved and 'predictable' we never worried. But one day she saw another dog and she was OFF! She lost track of the other dog so she just cruised the neighborhood. We couldn't find her but she eventually came back on her own time, and she was just like, "what's up? whatcha been up to?". She did it a couple more times after that, I guess she enjoyed the freedom. Then she realized my parents house was much more fun and she was fed regularly so she just sticks around.
That is truly terrifying. I'm also glad you found him. We don't have a fenced in yard so we are always walking our two. But twice now our foxhound got loose and just took off. We also live by a very busy road. I can 100% relate to you. Let me know what you find for fencing as I'm trying to convince FI we need to get one.
Again, glad your pup is safe.
@stephinPA- unfortunately our HOA requires us to have 4 ft white vinyl picket fences, no exceptions. And it is EXPENSIVE! which is why we've been hemming and hawing over actually doing it. It looks like it is going to cost us around 4000-4500 to fence just our back yard, and its tiny! only 131 feet perimeter. i wish we could just get a wood fence and be done with it!
@sahsabahs - OMG I have had this SAME problem! We hesitate to walk our dogs (and that SUCKS) because so many people in our town don't put their dogs on leashes. TWICE, in only THREE walks, my dogs have been run up on by other dogs, and well, my dogs don't like it. Annnnnd, my dogs are much bigger.
We live in a huge apartment complex on a golf course, so taking Toby off his leash isn't possible.
However in the evenings we will take him on the course and unleash him. He has so much fun! Once, he saw a rabbit and took off running. He ended up falling in a shallow creek and getting stuck in the mud. LOL - It wasn't funny at the time. I was just very grateful the water level wasn't very high and he didn't drown or break his leg.
@troubled-- ummm we COULD I guess but I don't really want to for a few reasons. First.. I think its a little mean. We had one when I was growing up and it just broke my heard to have to train the dogs and let them get shocked a few times to understand the "beep." Second, our yard is SO tiny that even if we put it right at the property line, if you count the 4 feet in you need for the "warning zone" it would make the usable area really small. Third, the way he ran last night I honestly don't think the fence would stop him. We had one dog growing up that would chase rabbits all the time and when he saw one he didn't care if he got zapped! When dogs get in that ZONE I'm just not sure a little buzz buzz zap is going to keep them safe and contained.
That is scary! My dog takes off once in a while after a rabbit or a deer (he's ambitious!) but we only let him off leash in the area behind our apartment building, which is a field, river bed and wooded area. And now and then on trails when we are hiking in more remote areas, but he's right by our sides then. He is a very non-interested dog, and rarely cares about the people/dogs we meet.
our dog would take off in a second. he sees a squirrel and he's gone. and we live right off of a really busy street, so it's always really scary to think about.
CorgiTales - The breeder on a farm we take Kodi to has an invisible fence line. He got shocked ONE time, and he was over it! lol. Now, when we go places camping, we put a shock collar on him, but use the beep to set a perimeter. Works like a charm. You have to pick him up and carry him across the boundary because he won't go near it! When I come to pick him up he starts jumping in the middle of the field where the line is waiting for me to come to him..
On the down side, Science Fiction movies and medical dramas have lots of beeps. Sometimes he jumps up and runs thinking he's about to get shocked, lol But he's not the brightest poodle around :-)
I'm glad you got him home safely! That must have been terrifying!
Oh, Corgi, you poor thing, I would have been frantic!! I get scared enough when our cat makes a break out of our condo and down the hall in our very secure highrise...I can't imagine if he ran away from us outside. I have to say though...the squeaky toy...GENIUS. Love it!
Oh, I almost forgot! Speaking of our very secure highrise condo hallways....my fellow residents should take note of your leash rule! One evening we opened the door to admit the pizza guy, and another couple in the building was apparently walking down the hall with their dog--NO LEASH. Well, doggie saw our open door, and possibly smelled our kitten and he ran right INTO our condo. His owners were still like half way down the hall! Our kitten was so scared he clawed the sh** out of FI, and then urinated inappropriately and went and hid under the bed. For about he next 6 hours. This was a HUGE dog. And then the owners REFUSED to come into our condo and get him. I'm like, ok, I get that you're respecting our space, and that's nice, but your very large, very sweet dog is ALL OVER my stuff and scaring the bejeesus out of my kitten. Help a girl out! Anyway. Leashes please.
@mrsmdphd- no joke on the squeaky! it was super lucky too because I NEVER buy him squeakies because he usually chews the squeak out of them in under an hour. FI just happened to come home with this one though for stew for valentines day (cue the *awww* lol) and I even made fun of him like "oh please he will kill that thing in 2 seconds". But! it is his absolute favorite toy and he hasn't killed it yet.... if FI hadn't got him that toy i have no clue how we ever would have found him! Especially bc we have lived here less than 2 months and there are a thousand houses and they all look the same. I don't know how Stew would have found his way home! When we walk he thinks like 10 houses are ours before we get to ours haha.
Eeeek, Im glad he came back! I cant imagine my dog without a leash just yet.. I dont think the trust is there 100% as of yet!
Not to mention guys the huge liability that you could incur if your dog was off a leash outside and seriously bit someone.
This almost happened to me and I was seriously considering my potential lawsuit in my head as 2 huge pitbulls who were not leashed were running right at me (on a sidewalk no less; this is a public area we were talking about). I'm sure they were quite friendly, etc, but I also believe that dogs are animals, and like other animals, they do not always listen 100% of the time.
@rplatzer- that is a good point for people with bigger dogs! I have a corgi though. He's 11 inches high and not what you'd call "vicious" ;)
Yeah. We have our lab/pit bull out without a leash most of the time-my fi's yard isn't fenced, but there are times that she'll just run off, chasing another dog, a cat or squirrels.
Yes! Always keep your dog on a leash unless you're in a fenced area. I go hiking/camping/climbing almost every weekend. There are leash laws on a lot of trails, but most dog owners ignore them (this drives me nuts). My dog great around other dogs when she's at the park, but if she's on leash, and a non-leashed dog walks up, she feels threatened and will attack. Leashes may seem silly for our fun loving silly dogs, but they really are for protection.
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So... I just about had a heart attack last night and had to share with the hive (what? normal people don't tell the hive everything? psh). I've had my dog over two years and he is EXTREMELY attached to me. We always joke around about how its like he's got an invisible leash or something to me because he doesn't like to be more than 20 feet from me at all times. He comes when I call, I've let him outside without a leash countless times at multiple places, it has never been a problem. Well... we have a lead set up outside for him that we usually put him on mostly because our yard is tiny and i want to make sure he does his business on our yard and not our neighbors bc i dont want to have to go pick it up right then... but occasionally at night or in the morning when i know he's just going to pee I let him out without the lead. He always goes down the stairs, pees, and runs right back up. No problem.
So last night its super late and I'm lazy so I just let him out like usual and turned around for a second to grab my glass of water and all of a sudden I see him STREAKING between houses headed for the front of our house/the street (I'm assuming there had to be some kind of rabbit/cat/squirrel/possum?) and I'm shrieking at him to come back and of course he totally ignores me. So I start screaming ot FI that stew ran off and he runs down and we both run out front (at this point fi is in pj pants and no shirt, I'm in yoga pants and a tshirt, and we're standing in the middle of the street in front of our house while i'm almost in tears yelling for the dog to come back-- i can only imagine what our new neighbors think of us!). He was seriously NOWHERE. It was totally dark and its like... what direction do we even go? he ran so fast to the front I didn't see where he went. So I was freaking out and FI went back inside to put a shirt on and he grabbed his favorite squeak toy and instructed me to keep squeaking it until he came back out. So I did, and a few minutes later I heard stew coming from behind the houses across the street (from the woods) and run up to me all "oh hey guys is that my toy? lets play." ARGH!!
Moral of the story: dogs are unpredictable! Even if they have ALWAYS been good at staying close don't risk it. If he would have been lost for good, or if he would've gotten hit by a car or something I would have been SO pissed at myself for not taking 2 seconds to put him on the freakin lead. Needless to say we will never ever make that mistake again... and I"m calling about fences TODAY.