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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 3, 2018 17:34:11 GMT -5
Man, we have had a rough streak with our animals lately. Two weeks ago our critter catching cat breaks her leg. She is still hobbling around but wants outside really bad. Then this past Friday both our red tick hound and Great Dane ran away together and we still can’t find them. Hope is fading fast now of them coming back after three full days being gone. Then today I noticed I hadn’t heard any noise from our duck and her pen looked a little messed up. I get down there to find an owl in there with her and of course she is dead. I sure hope this comes to a halt and quickly.
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Post by featherduster on Dec 3, 2018 18:11:31 GMT -5
And how is the OWL?
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Post by scrub-buster on Dec 3, 2018 18:20:16 GMT -5
That is a lot of critter problems. Hope things turn around soon.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 3, 2018 18:42:13 GMT -5
I honesty thought it would die. It looked in bad shape. Couldn’t open one eye and just looked miserable. Could have just been worn out from trying to get back out of the pen and it was soaked from being in the ducks pool. I got it out of the pen and it just sat in the backyard for a bit. When I went back out it was gone and I looked all over. Must’ve just needed a little rest and was able to take off. |
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Post by Sasquatch on Dec 3, 2018 18:44:09 GMT -5
 Sorry to hear it. Maybe your dogs will turn up in the pound? ( mine got captured after an escape once ) You have probably tried a Facebook inquiry for them? A lot of reunions happen that way. It could help if they got stolen too. I hope your luck turns soon! |
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 3, 2018 18:47:36 GMT -5
Yes. My wife has the dogs pics and info plastered all over our county and surrounding county websites. Also, every humane society and pound from Indy to Bloomington has all the info as well.
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Post by genesis273 on Dec 4, 2018 9:32:15 GMT -5
Very sorry to hear all this. Prayers for some better days ahead
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2018 11:17:05 GMT -5
Murphy's law of 3 is taking care of. Cat-dogs-ducks. You should be good to go for awhile.
Bummer for all the loses.
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Post by bartiks on Dec 4, 2018 11:21:15 GMT -5
I forgot about Murphy's law of 3, maybe I need to think if I've had all of my "Murphy's" taken care of.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 14, 2018 7:29:28 GMT -5
Well two weeks exactly after the dogs ran off we picked up our red tick this morning from a lady’s house right outside atterbury. Unfortunately there’s no sign of our Great Dane. The one we picked up is in pretty bad shape. Could barely walk and is really skinny. She is home now, got some food in her belly, a bath, and is just resting. Gonna take a while but she will get better a little at a time.
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Dec 14, 2018 8:12:18 GMT -5
Well two weeks exactly after the dogs ran off we picked up our red tick this morning from a lady’s house right outside atterbury. Unfortunately there’s no sign of our Great Dane. The one we picked up is in pretty bad shape. Could barely walk and is really skinny. She is home now, got some food in her belly, a bath, and is just resting. Gonna take a while but she will get better a little at a time. One thing I worry about with an expensive dog breed (like a great dane) is theft. Especially if they are in breeding condition. Not saying that's what happened, but someone may have seen it walking down the road and seen dollar signs. Glad you were reunited with your hound, when I was a kid we had coon dogs lost for a week or so several times and they bounce back fast. |
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 14, 2018 12:13:05 GMT -5
The thing about our dane though is she was scared of everything. Only way someone would ever be able to grab her was to physically hurt her first or if she was just too fragile to run from them. We had her 5 years and at times she’d still be skittish of us. At least we have one back. Both kids were really getting down about the dogs and this helped lift their spirits a little.
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Post by esshup on Dec 15, 2018 0:21:55 GMT -5
I'm glad that you have one back. There's still hope. Check all the shelters between you and where you picked up the other one.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 15, 2018 13:46:09 GMT -5
This is really unbelievable. My wife got an IM on Facebook and the lady said they saw our Great Dane. She then sent a picture and it was definitely her. They had just saw her 15 minutes before she contacted us. We jumped in the vehicle and headed that way. We took our other dog with to help ease her when and if we saw her. About ten minutes after being there our Dane walked out from under some peoples deck. When she saw our other dog she walked up to her and started sniffing and my wife was able to grab her. She had made it all the way to Columbus, but we got her and she is safe back at home now. After the first week doubt crept in and the two week mark we had all but given up. Now both dogs are home and the family is whole again.
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 15, 2018 13:52:46 GMT -5
That is wonderful news!
Hopefully they will stay home now..
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Post by esshup on Dec 15, 2018 13:57:22 GMT -5
Holy crap, that's amazing and wonderful news!
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Post by Russ Koon on Dec 15, 2018 14:32:12 GMT -5
Great news indeed!
Brought back the memory of the time my son and I were camping overnight on a squirrel hunting trip in the Hoosier National near Monroe. We had paddled in to make camp on a peninsula that would have been a long hike to access on foot, and had spent a good night in a tent, and as we were loading the canoe to paddle out, a coon hound came to the edge of our camp and
seemed like she was scared to approach us but at the same time was really glad to see us.
Figured she was lost and hungry, but she didn't look scrawny or ill. We had a package of heat-n-serve biscuits that was still half full, so my son tossed her a couple of them, and she warmed up to us really quick. When it came time to board the canoe, she was really hesitant, and we couldn't persuade her even after we were both aboard and urging her to join us. She'd put one foot on the boat and feel it move slightly and chicken out. Asked Russ if he could reach the rest of those biscuits, and he did, and she saw one of them hit the bottom of the canoe and was on it like a duck on a junebug!
We pushed off and began paddling quickly, and she settled down soon, didn't jump around or try to bail out.
This was in the pre-cell-phone days, so we had to take her with us to the nearest public phone an hour away to call the number on her tags. A family in the next county was tickled to death to get that call and came immediately to pick her up. Can't recall the name her family called her by, Russ and I had nicknamed her "Biscuits" by the time we landed the canoe, so we still recall her by that.
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Post by deadeer on Dec 15, 2018 15:34:47 GMT -5
This is really unbelievable. My wife got an IM on Facebook and the lady said they saw our Great Dane. She then sent a picture and it was definitely her. They had just saw her 15 minutes before she contacted us. We jumped in the vehicle and headed that way. We took our other dog with to help ease her when and if we saw her. About ten minutes after being there our Dane walked out from under some peoples deck. When she saw our other dog she walked up to her and started sniffing and my wife was able to grab her. She had made it all the way to Columbus, but we got her and she is safe back at home now. After the first week doubt crept in and the two week mark we had all but given up. Now both dogs are home and the family is whole again. Congrats. What are the chances? Better go buy a lottery ticket today! |
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Sorry to hear it. Maybe your dogs will turn up in the pound? ( mine got captured after an escape once ) You have probably tried a Facebook inquiry for them? A lot of reunions happen that way. It could help if they got stolen too.
