happy horseshit

You know, then other night when I posted that shallow little meme, I think I failed to convey the gravity of my situation, just then.

My dog was gone. Gone! She is a pretty neurotic pup and every since the fireworks fiasco of New Year's Eve, she has been a little bit more sketchy than usual. Pretty much, any time she hears thunder, gun fire (from the military firing range), garbage trucks, motorcycles, airplanes (I can see the flightline at Ramstein Air Base from my bedroom window) and did I mention thunder??? She crashes through the gate we have at the bottom of our stairs and hides in the bathtub until all is right in her world, again.

Well, on Sunday evening we had a pretty intense storm roll through here. She was outside with That Guy I Married and the kids when the first rumblings of thunder...er...rumbled, and she just bolted. Everybody was pretty distraught so about an hour later, when the storm passed, we set out to find her. In the 2+ years we have had her, she has never taken off like that. Since we all had to be up early the next morning, we had to stop looking at around midnight and go to bed.

The next morning I called for her, and she didn't come. We were pretty worried by then and so we started making phone calls. She is microchipped so I called the stray facility on base, first. They didn't have her, but put an alert in their system. We checked with the local tierheim, the Polezei and the fire department. She was nowhere to be found. I had just finished submitting an ad to the Stars and Stripes reporting her missing when I heard a thud at the back door. She was home. She was tired, thirsty, hungry, had almost an entire thorn bush tangled in her hair and was covered in (what I can only imagine to be) horse poo...but she was home.

I will admit that I spend a lot of time bitching about my dog. She is hairy (and therefore sheds...a lot), she barks rather incessantly, she tries to herd us into corners and she is just generally a spaz...but what this whole experience has proven to me is that I really, really love my dog and I am so glad she found her way back home.

Comments

[solvi]

I'm soooo happy she returned!!! (Altho', probably not as happy as SHE was to BE home, horseshit, and all....) They say pets are healthy for us...lowers blood pressure, gives comfort, etc..... When you add episodes such as this, with the worry, the constant 'de-furring' of the dog/house/kids/clothing, etc.....I often wonder if it's a ploy against human nature that says we 'need' pets......They need us as much as we need them.....we just show it more...heh heh...Glad she's back into her family's loving arms!!

[Lisa]

YEAH for a home-bound doggie!

[Milenka]

Awww, she's cute! So glad she came back to you guys, D!