She feels so safe and loved, and was perhaps wondering why Dad hadn’t followed her up the road like she was expecting! 🥰 What an awful panic for you - So relieved that she is safe and sound ❤️
Same thing happened to us when Olly got frightened by the military fitness trainers in the park. He legged it all the way home, across two busy roads. A few months before I’d been saying (shouting) to Dave that NO, I did not want a ring doorbell. Whilst Dave was running round the park in his wellies, a neighbour was ringing the doorbell to say Olly was outside. Dave would still be looking now if it wasn’t for that doorbell!
Hi Rory - I saw your tweet this morning and was immediately gripped with fear about darling little Sophie. I've been following her progress from Day 1 and have been so pleased to see her out and about. I gave my pup an extra big cuddle before heading to work and was so pleased to see your note when I got off the tube that she had found her way home. For GPS I would recommend the Pawfit. We use it for our pup and it has pretty good tracking plus the ability to set zones so you know if they have left home / come back. Hopefully lots more uneventful walks with Sophie in the future - we can't have all that worry again!
This is so beautiful. I'm so glad there was a happy ending. Sophie's daily updates are heartwarming and a lovely detraction from the sometimes awful things happening in the world. Thank you for the update, Rory. 🩷
It is really such good news that Sophie was prancing around like a dog on an adventure, and not hiding under bushes or cars like a panicked street dog. What amazing work you have done on her confidence.
Our beagle escaped at the park on Tooting common, and like you, an hour later I had a call on my mobile from the neighbour - she had walked herself home, and crossed three roads and was only flummoxed with our gate shut, so she sat outside our neighbours door instead! The ring bell alerted them to her presence. We were so amazed she know how to find her way home, we noted she wee'd all the way to the park always and now we think it was her markers and she used it as a sense to come back!
Well done Sophie - what a relief. We too have kindly What'sApp groups who get news out quickly about missing pets and people like to help.
Fantastic that this had a happy ending. I know this has a tech focus but it might be worth investing in some good old fashioned springs for the gates so they spring shut and can’t be left open by milk deliveries and Posties.
I completely empathise with how you must have felt. We have had two Rommie rescues. Our current, Rosa was, like Sophie so very scared of everything when we got her. She is now a confident member of our family but there are still certain things that instil fear into her. She "escaped" her collar one day having been frightened by another dog and ran away. By the time my wife got home, there she was, sitting on the doorstep. These dogs are way smarter than many people give them credit for. So glad Sophie knew where she felt safe and loved.
I can’t begin to imagine how you must have felt this morning Rory and Diane. Thank goodness, Sophie, your clever darling girl, came home to you. Amazing what good food and lots of love can do! 💕🐾🐾
Trackers -(there are many on the market) fill you with confidence until you really need them. You are no doubt only too aware of the failings of "reaching the cloud" or whatever technology is designed to manage them. It's amazing how far a dog can run between 'pings' of its location. I/we wouldn't be without one Apple/PitPat/Tractive/PawFit ( I'm sure there are more) but what may only be 10 minutes of lost dog feels like a lifetime. We have to be thankful that our little charges have more spatial sense than we do & (fingers crossed) always come home.
I was so terrified to see your early post, and so relieved to see Sophie is safe. I have followed your journey since the beginning and it has warmed my heart. Had a similar situation happen with my dogs, it is so frightening. But the way people will pull together to help an animal is so heartening. Stay well, and by the way, I am visiting in Oxford and went to Blackwells especially to buy your book! I plan to read it on the flight home!
i can’t say how happy I am that Sophie came home on her own, she was reunited with you and your wife, and she seems none the worse for her experience. We have a dog park near our house, which has double gates and is fully and completely fenced, but twice my dogs have managed to get out of it - and both times have headed straight home. Thankfully. I know the panic when you see them disappear and then the relief when you see them again. Hopefully she won’t be anxious to repeat this episode. I am religious about closing the baby gates in our house, still I have come home and let the dogs in to find out the main gate to the living room was wide open as I had gotten something after loading dogs into the car! Hopefully you will all be fine for your next walk. I love ready your posts and this is the first time I have commented. But my life revolves around my dogs, so I totally understand.
Rory , the sheer terror that grips us when these hounds run away is palpable. I’m
So relieved for you both that a gaggle of neighbours , and a savvy dog got herself home to her beloved owners .
G&T I think soon with cheese 🧀.
She feels so safe and loved, and was perhaps wondering why Dad hadn’t followed her up the road like she was expecting! 🥰 What an awful panic for you - So relieved that she is safe and sound ❤️
It shows that Sophie feels safe at home with you both - a hard way to learn that though. I hope you are non the worse for this mornings scare.
Same thing happened to us when Olly got frightened by the military fitness trainers in the park. He legged it all the way home, across two busy roads. A few months before I’d been saying (shouting) to Dave that NO, I did not want a ring doorbell. Whilst Dave was running round the park in his wellies, a neighbour was ringing the doorbell to say Olly was outside. Dave would still be looking now if it wasn’t for that doorbell!
That’s a very stressful morning and won’t have done much for your PD symptoms. Tomorrow’s another day.
Hi Rory - I saw your tweet this morning and was immediately gripped with fear about darling little Sophie. I've been following her progress from Day 1 and have been so pleased to see her out and about. I gave my pup an extra big cuddle before heading to work and was so pleased to see your note when I got off the tube that she had found her way home. For GPS I would recommend the Pawfit. We use it for our pup and it has pretty good tracking plus the ability to set zones so you know if they have left home / come back. Hopefully lots more uneventful walks with Sophie in the future - we can't have all that worry again!
This is so beautiful. I'm so glad there was a happy ending. Sophie's daily updates are heartwarming and a lovely detraction from the sometimes awful things happening in the world. Thank you for the update, Rory. 🩷
It is really such good news that Sophie was prancing around like a dog on an adventure, and not hiding under bushes or cars like a panicked street dog. What amazing work you have done on her confidence.
Now time for some training on door manners!
Our beagle escaped at the park on Tooting common, and like you, an hour later I had a call on my mobile from the neighbour - she had walked herself home, and crossed three roads and was only flummoxed with our gate shut, so she sat outside our neighbours door instead! The ring bell alerted them to her presence. We were so amazed she know how to find her way home, we noted she wee'd all the way to the park always and now we think it was her markers and she used it as a sense to come back!
Well done Sophie - what a relief. We too have kindly What'sApp groups who get news out quickly about missing pets and people like to help.
Fantastic that this had a happy ending. I know this has a tech focus but it might be worth investing in some good old fashioned springs for the gates so they spring shut and can’t be left open by milk deliveries and Posties.
Hi Rory
I completely empathise with how you must have felt. We have had two Rommie rescues. Our current, Rosa was, like Sophie so very scared of everything when we got her. She is now a confident member of our family but there are still certain things that instil fear into her. She "escaped" her collar one day having been frightened by another dog and ran away. By the time my wife got home, there she was, sitting on the doorstep. These dogs are way smarter than many people give them credit for. So glad Sophie knew where she felt safe and loved.
Get a Tractive. It’s been a lifesaver in more ways than one for our little wanderer. Also get some “Please shut the gate” signs.
and charge the battery frequently
I can’t begin to imagine how you must have felt this morning Rory and Diane. Thank goodness, Sophie, your clever darling girl, came home to you. Amazing what good food and lots of love can do! 💕🐾🐾
Trackers -(there are many on the market) fill you with confidence until you really need them. You are no doubt only too aware of the failings of "reaching the cloud" or whatever technology is designed to manage them. It's amazing how far a dog can run between 'pings' of its location. I/we wouldn't be without one Apple/PitPat/Tractive/PawFit ( I'm sure there are more) but what may only be 10 minutes of lost dog feels like a lifetime. We have to be thankful that our little charges have more spatial sense than we do & (fingers crossed) always come home.
PitPat is my vote as not only a great product but UK tech company based up in Cambridge.
I was so terrified to see your early post, and so relieved to see Sophie is safe. I have followed your journey since the beginning and it has warmed my heart. Had a similar situation happen with my dogs, it is so frightening. But the way people will pull together to help an animal is so heartening. Stay well, and by the way, I am visiting in Oxford and went to Blackwells especially to buy your book! I plan to read it on the flight home!
i can’t say how happy I am that Sophie came home on her own, she was reunited with you and your wife, and she seems none the worse for her experience. We have a dog park near our house, which has double gates and is fully and completely fenced, but twice my dogs have managed to get out of it - and both times have headed straight home. Thankfully. I know the panic when you see them disappear and then the relief when you see them again. Hopefully she won’t be anxious to repeat this episode. I am religious about closing the baby gates in our house, still I have come home and let the dogs in to find out the main gate to the living room was wide open as I had gotten something after loading dogs into the car! Hopefully you will all be fine for your next walk. I love ready your posts and this is the first time I have commented. But my life revolves around my dogs, so I totally understand.