Legging it

[bigmamma]

Hi there abers, my dog has just got out the front door with the workmen being here. She ran up the road , I had no idea she could still run that fast . Alas I can't so I had to just grab her lead and hobble off in her general direction.
Fortunately she is very friendly so a kind person had kept her by making a fuss of her til I got there. She then just came to me , head into her collar , and proceeded to walk home like little miss innocent.
Have any of you panicked with the escape of a pet ?

xx

[True Blue 36]

phew thank goodness she is so friendly and you have her safely back.
My little 5 yr old girl was playing with our hamster and i just popped in the kitchen for a sec, when i come back she was happily watching the tv. I asked where the hamster was - sheer horror - she had totally switched off and forgotten about him. The cat was on the sofa watching us, so we didn't want to disturb her incase she got involved!. We started to panic and was looking everywhere, then out he popped from behind the sofa. he went straight over to my daughter and back in her hands as if nothing had happened.
pets, don''t you just love em!

[bigmamma]

Gosh True Blue , hamsters are so tiny you would be afraid of treading or sitting on it , or even finding the cat sat looking content and licking its lips !!!
xx

[True Blue 36]

exactly. He is so good though, the kids put him in a remote controlled car and he just sits in it going around the front room.

[divegirl]

I spent the last 11 years panicing everytime my My Old Dane escaped! In said 11 years I have picked him up from the local police many times, the local rail station, various peoples houses and I've lost count of the times I had to traipse round the forest looking for him. He once jumped out of my bedroom window in a bid to escape [broke a tooth that time] and spent many a happy year recruiting my Yorkshire Terriers to be his partners in crime 'All for one and one for all'. He sadly sucumbed to 'bloat' on his last escapade and had to be PTS...... as sad as it was.....I'm glad we lost him doing what he loved best.....chasing bunnies and causing havoc!

Lisa x

[bigmamma]

awww bless , divegirl , your Old Dane sounds as though he had a wonderfully adventurous life .
xx

[leelapops]

Aw, bigmamma thank goodness for that!
My first hamster, Squishy, was a complete escapologist! She managed to twist the top off her bubble type cage THREE times! We lived in a ground floor flat, and I was distraught! The first time she mustn't have been out for long, because she just sat on her cage top surveying her kingdom, but the second time she was gone for a few hours, and the third time she was gone so long that we got a new hammy! That night, she sauntered back in like nothing had happened, sandy little devious b****r!

When we hadn't long had Jack, our Collie, my partner passed me his lead and I dropped it, on a busy road by a bus station! I just panicked, and my partner had to grab me and tell me not to run at Jack or shout. Within seconds Jack realised we weren't on the other end of his lead, and wandered back, and I just burst into tears! I am getting quite upset just telling you all about it now!

Thank goodness she's so friendly and loving, bm :) Give her a pat from me, and tell her not to frighten her mum like that again! x

[bigmamma]

Leelapops hamsters are little devils for getting out of so-called hamster cages. I had one little getaway and had to call her Houdini . Ended up putting her in a large fish tank for a house , minus the water or the fish , lol.
Your collie Jack sounds so sweet and obviously close to you .
My labrador is now fast asleep , probably dreaming about her mini adventure . :-) xx

[Psychick]

It was always a nightmare but an adventure walking my old retired greyhound. I used to walk her the length of a nearby canal. As soon as I let her off her lead she would be gone! I used to run along behind as fast as I could and luckily always used to find her about 200 yards up having a sniff around. The only problem is she used to go deaf when it came to coming back for having her lead on! lol

[divegirl]

ahhhh selective deafness....don't you love it?

Ty bigmamma...I like to think he did.

Other escapees in our house include my daughters African house snake, who has disappeared twice in the last 5 years....the first time we found him in next doors porch after two months.

....and sad though it is....I can often be found wandering the street after midnight waving a sardine as I don't like to go to bed unless my cats are home!! Does that count? It certainly stresses me out.....lol

Lisa x

[divegirl]

Btw....really glad you got your furbaby home safe and sound.

[bigmamma]

Iv'e now got a picture of you wandering your neighborhood waving a sardine trying to locate your cats divegirl , thats so cute . :-) x

[ruby27]

On Friday we took our dog out for her second walk. She disappeared into a field where the crop was so tall she wasn't visible. Normally she returns when called but on this occasion didn't. We waited for an hour; other dog walkers tried sending their dogs in to get her. She was after Rabbits - she is a Whippet. After an hour and half I sent my husband home whilst I stayed on. He found her at home in the garden!! Somehow she must have come out, not seen or heard us, and ran home. Big panics by us but not her she didn't seem bothered, never had a Whippet before so not sure if this is the sort of thing they get up to, but much closer supervision over the fields from know on. Can not cope with the anxiety.
I am an experinced with dogs have had them for over 25 years but you still can get caught out. Still love them to bits and wouldn't be without them

[bigmamma]

What a panic for you Ruby27 , and what a good dog to have the sense to go back home , bless. :-)

[wolf63]

When my family got our first puppy in 1980 we were all pretty naive. Hutch was a GSD/bull-mastiff and was born with a brilliant nature. He was just another sibling for my brother and I.

He was related to Houdini. The fence in the back garden was eventually about 8 feet and he still managed to scale it in the nano-second that you took your eyes off of him.

He used to go to the local primary school at break and lunch time to see his human pals.

Every time he vanished I was in a panic - he was a motor bike chaser and I always envisaged him actually catching one.

He never actually came home. He would sit at the top of the street barking - wanting to be collected. He ALWAYS smelled awful. He would walk through the front door, up the stairs and straight into the bath without anybody saying a word.

True blue - is it the cat or the hamster who gets to use the remote controlled car?

[bigmamma]

That was lovely to read wolf , what a character . :-) x

[ruby27]

I just love the Hampster stories, especially True Blues one of travelling around in the electric car. I had never realised what adventours little creatures they could be.

[hippyhoppy]

How hilarious - a haster in a RC car! I'm going to have to try that! I'm a tad blue as it's 20 weeks tomorrow since my Rosie (no specific breed - Heinz 57) popped her paws.

[tiggerwoo]

Hi divegirl
not daft with the cats and love your story.I am the same with my cats...perhaps worse....get in a big panic if i don't see them for an hour and have to start calling and whistleing them...don't like them being out in the rain. If i go out they have to come in and they have to be in before it's dark. Bad weather they don't get to go out at all....hows that for being barmy!! LOL

[divegirl]

[email protected]'m exactly the same! Although I've had dogs for years it's only been a year since I've been owned by a cat and I'm still getting used to their 'ways'. It freaks me out how independant they are.