Have you ever lost a dog who found its own way back home?

MeriYa

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This sort of happened to me, only it wasn't my dog at the time. I had a very good friend who would come over to my house and hang out. After knowing him for awhile, he came to visit me and had a small dog with him. In the next few months. sometimes he brought the dog, sometimes he didn't.

One day I saw him out and about without his dog. I asked about her and he said that she was at a friend's house. A couple of days later, at about 2 o'clock in the morning, I heard something that sounded like knocking on my front door. I was upstairs in my bedroom, so I looked out of my bedroom window down to the front door. There was my friends' dog. She backed up from the front door and looked up to my bedroom window just like a person would, as if to say, "Hi, it's me!" I thought that was fabulous. I went downstairs and let her in. Apparently she ran away from wherever she was, and came to my house.

When I saw my friend a few days later out and about, I asked about his dog, and he told me the same story about her being at a friend's house.
I kept quiet. He then went on to tell me that actually he didn't know where his dog was, but that he had been reluctant to mention it to me because he knows how much I like animals. Well... I had good news for him, "Your dog's at my house." He was very happy and relieved. He was telling anyone who would listen that his dog had been at my house the whole time he had been looking for her.
Have you ever lost a dog that found its way back home, or to a family member or friend's house?
 
That kind of makes me wonder if the dog would have preferred to be with you instead of him! I had a schnauzer when I was a kid who didn't like my mother, so she would run away to a neighboring farm where an elderly lady lived. The old lady would let her sit on the couch and give her all sorts of treats, so whenever the dog could, that's where she went to get spoiled.

Other than that, I've never had a dog run away. I do, however, have a catahoula who likes to take my lab on walkabouts and leave him behind. He is the goofiest dog and I don't know if his sense of direction is broken or what, but she loves to pull this Hansel and Gretel act on him and then we have to go find him. :p
 
@Jade Yes, maybe you're right about the dog preferring to be with me. I don't think she preferred to be with me more than she loved being with her owner because she adored her owner (I don't blame her, he is a good man(y)). I think she just preferred being with me rather than where her owner had her staying/boarding. I tend to spoil dogs, especially this dog in particular. There was just something about her. She was a really good dog, loyal to a fault, and very protective.
From the time she came to my house that early morning until years later, she pretty much stayed with me full time. Anytime her owner had things to do he would leave his dog with me, and he always had things to do, lol, so his dog was with me for a long time.
 
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