My heart crashed when i read this :sweating: ,but thank goodness she's back home.I'm so relieved for you :huggles:
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Esme's Missing
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Pleased to hear she has been found safe and sound. :cheers:
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Thats great news... :cheers: so relieved for ya... :thumbsup:
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Thank you so so much for all the kind thoughts, PMs phone calls etc.
Ghastly ghastly little being squeezed under the fence through a 4" gap and vanished. We have just bought a new house that we haven't moved into yet as it needs a lot of work, but I go there everyday and the dogs play in the garden, which I thought was well fenced. She's a little inclined to go off hunting when I walk her there as there are a lot of rabbits about, but she's never gone out of my sight.
This time she simply vanished into thin air. One of my neighbours was mowing the lawn and said the shot by so fast she almost couldn't tell what she was. I walked around for an hour calling, then a friend came in his 4X4 and drove me over all the fields, then we got a call that she had been seen, still going flat out, towards a village about 1 1/2 miles away. There is a main road and a railway track both within about 1 mile of the house. We drove over in the direction she had gone and I walked the hedgerows calling for her. Occasionally I came across her foot prints, once within about 50 yards of the railway.
When it got dark we decided to go home and see if she's by any chance come back. As we got there a neighbour was shutting my front door. He'd found her a couple of fields away, probably on her way home. She wouldn't come to him, so her chased her to the house and locked her in.
She was very scared (probably because poor Don had had to chase her home) covered in mud, filled with thorns, a little lame and extremely tired. I think she must have covered at least 8 miles, probably a lot more. The furthest away from home we found her foot prints were about 2 miles in each direction.
I think she must have put up a hare in the field outside of the garden otherwise I don't think she would have run that far and that fast without catching a bunny or getting frightened because she couldn't see me.
I am so grateful to the incredibly kind people of the our fantastic new village who all came out to help and to you all for you offers of help. I had quite convinced myself she was dead.
She is now happily curled up on the sofa with my husband and the other dogs (who were all very relieved to see her).
This is her trying to get out a few weeks ago.
Ghastly ghastly little being squeezed under the fence through a 4" gap and vanished. We have just bought a new house that we haven't moved into yet as it needs a lot of work, but I go there everyday and the dogs play in the garden, which I thought was well fenced. She's a little inclined to go off hunting when I walk her there as there are a lot of rabbits about, but she's never gone out of my sight.
This time she simply vanished into thin air. One of my neighbours was mowing the lawn and said the shot by so fast she almost couldn't tell what she was. I walked around for an hour calling, then a friend came in his 4X4 and drove me over all the fields, then we got a call that she had been seen, still going flat out, towards a village about 1 1/2 miles away. There is a main road and a railway track both within about 1 mile of the house. We drove over in the direction she had gone and I walked the hedgerows calling for her. Occasionally I came across her foot prints, once within about 50 yards of the railway.
When it got dark we decided to go home and see if she's by any chance come back. As we got there a neighbour was shutting my front door. He'd found her a couple of fields away, probably on her way home. She wouldn't come to him, so her chased her to the house and locked her in.
She was very scared (probably because poor Don had had to chase her home) covered in mud, filled with thorns, a little lame and extremely tired. I think she must have covered at least 8 miles, probably a lot more. The furthest away from home we found her foot prints were about 2 miles in each direction.
I think she must have put up a hare in the field outside of the garden otherwise I don't think she would have run that far and that fast without catching a bunny or getting frightened because she couldn't see me.
I am so grateful to the incredibly kind people of the our fantastic new village who all came out to help and to you all for you offers of help. I had quite convinced myself she was dead.
She is now happily curled up on the sofa with my husband and the other dogs (who were all very relieved to see her).
This is her trying to get out a few weeks ago.
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so pleased she is back home theres nothing worse than your whippy disappearing,i had a similar worry saturday gone when kiplin ran off into the woods with the girls ,the girls came back fairly quick with a rabbit but no kiplin and him being 8 months old i went into panic mode,luckily he heard my screaming his name and high pitch whistles and came running,he was missing 10 long mins.
they do worry us at times
they do worry us at times
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Sounds like she had quite the adventure!
So pleased she's safely back at home now :huggles:
So pleased she's safely back at home now :huggles:
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so glad she safely back home :sweating: :thumbsup:
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I am so glad she is safely back home :cheers:
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What a relief! Glad she's safe and sound at home now :huggles:
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Christ Olivia, bet you've aged ten years tonight! :sweating: Glad she's safe and well, think you could do with a brandy though! 
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Im so glad that she has turned up safe and sound, ive just read this and when i saw the first line i was gutted for you, but all ends well.
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Thank god :sweating: :sweating: I just got home and read the title I am so pleased she is back safe and sound :huggles:
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Oh Esme!! You've been taking lessons from my Josie You even look alike! But don't listen to Josie... and don't give your mum such a scare ever again :blink:
I think some whippets were sent to age us :- " I have a new white hair every time Josie does this. I don't let her off the lead very often these days, but sometimes she convinces me a field is safe and that she'll stay and have fun with the ball... and then just takes it into her head to race off flat out and vanish for half an hour. Every time I think I'm never going to see her again
You even look alike! But don't listen to Josie... and don't give your mum such a scare ever again :blink:I think some whippets were sent to age us :- " I have a new white hair every time Josie does this. I don't let her off the lead very often these days, but sometimes she convinces me a field is safe and that she'll stay and have fun with the ball... and then just takes it into her head to race off flat out and vanish for half an hour. Every time I think I'm never going to see her again
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omg! you must have been so scared!!! esme you naughty girl! glad all is well now olivia :huggles:
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Glad it all ended well and Esme is safely back home with you :huggles:
Thank goodness she was found safe and well, as you say she may have been on her way home anyway.
I bet she slept well last night -_-
Leia does this to me on occassions and I always think I'll never see her again, the longest she has been missing is 2 hours. It's amazing at the space they can squeeze through to vanish if they want :angry:
I bet she slept well last night -_-
Leia does this to me on occassions and I always think I'll never see her again, the longest she has been missing is 2 hours. It's amazing at the space they can squeeze through to vanish if they want :angry:
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