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Jul 2018
10:05pm, 21 Jul 2018
23,287 posts
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LazyDaisy
What everyone else has said 
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Jul 2018
10:53pm, 21 Jul 2018
7,284 posts
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BaronessBL
And from me too. I know equally as much what a nerve-wracking thing it can be to let the dog off the lead - I do so more now with Wanda but BaronBR rarely does. Having been lucky enough to meet Indi I am not at all surprised he was so good but I do understand your reasons why you haven't done so previously and hope you will be more confident with him on future suitable occasions
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Jul 2018
2:24pm, 22 Jul 2018
8,347 posts
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SarahWoo
Not surprised at all, D but very glad that you were able to let him show you what a star he is.
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Jul 2018
4:37pm, 22 Jul 2018
10,824 posts
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D2
I feel the need to excuse / put my weird ramblings into context so you don't think I'm completely mad
A "couple" of years ago I had two dogs who ran off in chase of something while off lead on a walk, they did not come back..... not that night or the next day. I made posters, rang everywhere and searched all day. I left the house door open all night in case they came back and couldn't get in. They didn't come back the following night. I spent the next day searching again.... nothing.
Then a message that there was one sitting behind a fence on top of t he moor, rushed there it was the female, no sign of the male and they never left each other. Took her home ... just her.
The next day went out looking again and a woman said I've seen a dog in my field I didn't think it was the one in your poster.... it was.
I don't think I have ever really recovered from that trauma, so still a little mad but hopefully not completely!
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Jul 2018
5:44pm, 22 Jul 2018
1,764 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Makes perfect sense. With your enclosed fields providing all the space he needs to run there's no need for him to be off lead on walks so why would you take the risk, however small.
He's a beautiful and very precious dog.
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Jul 2018
5:48pm, 22 Jul 2018
13,536 posts
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Sharkie
That's very nicely said, Thornton.
And D. that's a horrible story even though there was a sort of happy ending, no wonder it's coloured your judgement for so long. Were the dogs Shepherds? It seems such UN Shepherd like behaviour. Indi would never, ever 'run off' he loves you far too much!
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Jul 2018
7:56am, 24 Jul 2018
5,571 posts
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Helegant
How frightening. I suppose it does remind us all that dogs are never fully 'tame' and can do the unexpected. I had a similar experience with our family dog (a terrier) when I was a teenager. The dog reappeared a few days later but it was very worrying.
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Jul 2018
10:59am, 24 Jul 2018
26,399 posts
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Derby Tup
Tuss is our first dog (and probably last, but I guess you never know). The thought of him disappearing doesn’t bare thinking about
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Jul 2018
11:43am, 24 Jul 2018
7,285 posts
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BaronessBL
As it was so unbearably hot last night we decided that we would not leave Wanda shut in the kitchen where she usually sleeps (particularly as I had been cooking too which had made the room even warmer) but would leave the door open and doors to one or two cooler rooms too so that she could get herself comfortable out of the heat.
Where did she choose to sleep?
On the landing outside the airing cupboard... possibly the only place in the house that was hotter than where she usually sleeps....
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Jul 2018
11:52am, 24 Jul 2018
26,400 posts
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Derby Tup
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