I'm so glad that he is ok just to say I've had some very good dogs over the years my last one a very well trained gun dog I've seen some of the best trained dogs lose concentration for a split second and see something they like and off they go I don't think that anyone can say there dog is 100% all the time
What a fright for you! So glad everything was OK and Aspen is just fine. Your experience is a reminder to all of us. A valuable post.
Oh my word, my heart goes out to you. I am so glad Aspen is ok. Just before Christmas my nephew let his dog out of the car for a walk and it ran straight out in front of a car and got killed. These things are reminders that however much we are connected to them, they are still animals with their own instincts. You poor thing, big hug to you both x
I am so pleased Aspen is safe. As I read your post, I could feel a kind of panicky feeling. I so understand how frightened you were. When Sky was about 2, she ran into a field of ripe rapeseed. We called and called her. In the end we went home as it was getting dusk and returned with flashlights calling and calling her. Nothing. We had to go home and DH said we would go out at first light. You can imagine how we were feeling. At dawn the next morning, DH went downstairs and saw through the little window at the bottom of our staircase, a very wet black shape - it was Sky. She was very frightened and soaking wet. She slunk through to her bed in the utility. I can clearly remember shouting at her ‘don’t you ever dare do that again’ - like a crazed mother whose teenager has stayed out all night. I was so scared, frightened, upset and then so so relieved. She had found her way home, crossing the road that goes through the village to the next village (can be a bit of a racetrack sometimes). Since then Sky has ‘run off’ when spooked several times and been bought home in various people’s cars - she usually chooses BMW’s . Those stories I’ll keep for another day.
You were lucky. A member on the other Lab forum just reported her pup was hit on the road at Christmas and needed extensive surgery. She was very lucky the man who hit her was good enough to come into her farm and tell her.
So easy in a split second to get it wrong. I'm more on the overcautious side, but still take "risks" that I deem acceptable. As Rachael said, there but for the Grace of Some God go I......
Oh, how horrible..I can't even imagine how he feels. It is sometimes hard to remember that yes, they are still animals. My heart goes out to your nephew.
How scary for you both. So pleased it had a happy ending I'm the other way with Stanley. Completely paranoid and I panic - we went to the river the other day and it was faster than usual and he went to go in and I was like STANLEY NO!! thinking he'd get swept away. Even though I'm sure he would have been fine Hope you're both feeling a bit better and less chewed up now x
Yes, it happens here, and our creek doesn’t get very high but it moves quick enough that dogs do get swept away during run off season. I only allow Axel in at certain times of the year
