Dog Story?
Paula Repman
about stories where a dog (or cat) runs off on a cross-country journey,
family searches to no avail and must continue on their journey. Then,
months later, the animal turns up at home, hundreds of miles from
where it was lost. When I was a child reading "Lassie Come Home", I
accepted every word, but since I've had my eyes opened by this
group - ???????????
paula (hp-labs!hp-vcd!paula)
TJ Wood WA3VQJ
>Is the time-honored "Lassie"-type story truth or legend? I'm talking
>about stories where a dog (or cat) runs off on a cross-country journey,
Didn't Disney do "The Incredible Journey"? 2 dogs and 1 cat search for
their owner?
Terry
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Usually the way I've heard it, the pets are lost while the owners are moving
to some faraway place. That way the pets find their owners in an area that the
pets have never been to before. Sounds a bit more amazing (and probably less
probable).
I've had some experience with this on a smaller scale. Back home we had a
couple of dogs that always tried to follow my dad's truck when he left our
farm to drive about 20 miles to his "day" job. Usually the dogs gave up
chasing the truck after a few seconds, but one day they kept on going.
I should say that this 20 mile trip is a bit complex, with lots of forks and
intersections that can really get your directions screwed up if you're not
careful.
Anyway, near the end of my dad's shift, someone brought in a couple of dogs
that had been sitting outside the company gate. My dad took a look at them
and said "Hey! Those are my dogs!".
I don't know how those dogs found my dad's workplace. I don't know what would
drive them to such lengths to find my dad. We're sure that no one dumped them
at the company knowing they were my dad's since the dogs had no collars.
My dad was so awed by his dogs' loyalty that he gave them a ride home ;-)
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>In article <640...@hp-vcd.HP.COM> pa...@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Paula Repman) writes:
>>Is the time-honored "Lassie"-type story truth or legend? I'm talking
>>about stories where a dog (or cat) runs off on a cross-country journey,
>Didn't Disney do "The Incredible Journey"? 2 dogs and 1 cat search for
>their owner?
I think I remember a "Fantastic Journey" about two red setters
traveling from Canda to somewhere in the US after their family. I
think I read it in 4th grade so the memory is not just a little hazy.
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there must be SOME truth to these.....don't we all remember the Disney
movie about two dogs and a cat? Incredible Journey, I think it was.
Anyway, a similar thing happened to a close friend of mine (FOM?) in the early
seventies. She had a thoroughbred black greyhound that could race the wind...
and win. He loved to be outside, but was forever running off, so they had to
keep him tied to a stakeout post. One night, somebody stole him. The family
searched and offered rewards, but to no avail.
About three months later, the dog showed up in the back yard. His leg had been
broken and had healed crookedly; they theorized he had been hit by a car. He
was extremely emaciated.
Jean
Terry Von Gease
story about a family that moved to some distant location leaving their
beloved pet (dog, cat, rhinoceros, whatever...) behind. Some months later
the husband stepped out on the front porch, looked up the street, and,
lo, the missing pet was nowhere to be seen.
Terry