Sheepdog's '250 Mile Trip To Former Home' In Aberystwyth

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-36130437

What an amazing story !

How on earth did the dog know its way home ?

[naomi24]

I don't know how animals find their way over long distances - but they do. A neighbour moved some 175 miles away taking her beloved cat with her. Some two years later we discovered the poor, skinny, bedraggled creature in our garden, the tag with the old address still attached to her collar. I think she must have scooted the moment she arrived in her new home. We took her to the vet who said she was very elderly, and we kept her and cared for her until she died about 6 months later. Unfortunately I was never able to tell her owner - I didn't have her new address.

[Peter Pedant]

Oh it has been done
sticking a doo-dah on a dog and tracking it while it makes its way home

and it does it by making wider and wider circles until it picks up a scent it recognised ...

OTHERWISE - how does a pigeon ( a well known type of flying dog ) navigate - and it does THAT by psammoma bodies in the brain - the meninges takes up SiO2 and makes a little grain of sand, which also has iron in it and is therefore .... magnetic
so it knows where it is going ....


well you read these books and that is what they say .....

[Peter Pedant]

oops

http://theconversation.com/explainer-how-do-homing-pigeons-navigate-25633

goes for sound and smell
sozza
out of date ....old, disabled et c et c

[DTCwordfan]

there was that film in Canada about a dog and cat that traversed the country to follow their owners, 'The Incredible Journey' or 'Trip' - think it was fictional but it was cute for kids....

[DTCwordfan]

And there was Barmaid's Asbo story too.....

[wolf63]

dtc - watch your language that was on of my favourite films.

[DTCwordfan]

which title was it?

What I never understand is why some folk leave their pets behind. Naomi's story though is moving.

When growing up my parents moved and went to ask the vet for advice about a 'bed and breakfast' tom. Over five years, he had worked himself up to stick his head through the kitchen window - then eat there, and eventually moving in. He lived in the farm at the bottom of the drive but then he had been badly treated, his fur manky, flea ridden and even hot fat had been poured over him.

The vet said that they had to take him as the cat had adopted them, living for about four years in glorious comfort with seven women (sterile) around him.

[wolf63]

I think that this is the version that I watched

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Journey_%28film%29

I think that this story will haunt me for some time

http://www.dumbartonreporter.co.uk

/news/14392383.Cat_forced_to_drink_toilet_water_to_stay_alive_after_pet_is_abandoned_by_Vale_mum/

[DTCwordfan]

can't see it there.....

[naomi24]

Our elderly 'foundling' wouldn’t leave the safety and warmth of the house unless I went with her and so we took several walks a day around the garden together. I think she’d seen enough of the lonely, precarious world outside, so deemed it an experience never to be repeated. She was a nice little girl. :o)

[Peter Pedant]

our current house dog got upset when we went on a day out to Blackpool ( with it ) and we concluded it thought it was being taken back to the dogs home ....

[viv41]

Lovely story and beautiful dog, so glad they are going to keep the little Angel. Do we deserve dogs ? Not always.