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Old hunter’s trick reunites woman with her lost dog after searching for 12 days
A GREAT ARTICLE AND A GREAT PSA
We preach this method all the time when we get in a LOST dog.
The method does work, as does the "pee in the spray bottle" method.
Dogs can scent an owners smell from a long ways away, and dogs also are very accute to the smell of their owners urine.
It sounds odd, but over the 20 plus years we have been doing this work, it has worked more times then we can count.
By iHeartDogs.com
October 27th, 2021
Owning a dog is a very enjoyable and rewarding experience. You have a lifelong companion who will follow you anywhere, even into the unknown, and who will love you no matter what the situation.
So, losing them can be very hard and painful. This is even more so the case when they become lost.
One woman who lost her dog, though, was able to find him with some helpful advice.
A dog owner was at her wit’s end
A Reddit user, named a_little_pixie, had lost her dog in a heavily wooded area.
Explaining in a Reddit post, she talked about how desperate to find him, she searched the area tirelessly, but after 12 days of not finding him, she was at the end of her rope on what to do.
It was on day 12 that she ran into some guardian angels as she searched the wood, a pair of hunters.
A special trick to find a lost dog
The hunters recounted how they too had lost the occasional dog while on a hunt. Fortunately, they had a special way of getting them back.
This trick has helped countless families reunite with their dogs.
Thinking it might help others, the Redditor had decided to post her story on the site.
Source: Pixabay – pexels2013
If your dog becomes lost, the first thing you should do is take an article of clothing that you have been wearing all day. The longer the better for your dog to be able to pick up the scent.
Dogs have an awesome sense of smell and can pick up on odors way better than a human can.
Source: Pixabay – mila-del-monte
Next, take the article of clothing to the last place your dog was seen. Leave the article of clothing. You might also leave their crate or a familiar toy if possible.
You should also leave a note explaining for people to not move the items and the reason behind the request.
Leave familiar objects for them
You should also leave a bowl of water, as chances are, your dog may not have access to it depending on where they were lost.
Avoid leaving any food as this can attract other animals, which might cause your dog to avoid the area.
Hopefully, your dog will be waiting for you
Make sure to check back the next day.
If you are fortunate, your lost dog could be there waiting for you. If not, keep checking back intermittently as your dog might return at a later time.
The Redditor was skeptical of the hunters’ advice at first.
Surely, if her dog had been there, he would have come when she was calling for him during the 12 days before. But sure enough, after leaving an article of her clothing at the location, she returned to find him there the next day.
This trick could very well save your dog’s life
Hopefully, this little hunter’s trick will help others who have lost their dog and possibly save their dog’s life.
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Sources: Reddit – a_little_pixie, Hiptoro
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In 2014, inspired by his rescued Siberian Husky Splash, Justin Palmer started a Facebook page called I Love Dogs. The page quickly grew to over a million fans and in 2015, Justin cofounded iHeartDogs.com with Marshall Morris, an army veteran. Inspired by their passions for helping shelter dogs and supporting our veterans, Justin and Marshall built a line of products that give back to shelters and raise money to provide service dogs for veterans in need.
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Man plans to return rescue dog from shelter until he reads note from the previous owner
By iHeartDogs.com
December 16th, 2019
Animals at the shelter can only hope to find a new loving forever home, as the majority of sheltered animals usually aren’t so lucky. Reggie, however, a big black labrador, recently found a new owner – but they really didn’t get along.
Reggie’s new owner was about to return the pooch to the shelter but everything changed when he read a note left behind by the dog original owner.
The owner still recalls visiting the shelter to adopt a new family member, and his impression of the shelter was excellent.
“They told me the big black Lab’s name was Reggie, as I looked at him lying in his pen,” he wrote. “The shelter was clean, no-kill, and the people really friendly. I’d only been in the area for six months, but everywhere I went in the small college town, people were welcoming and open. Everyone waves when you pass them on the street.”
At first, everyone seemed to get along nicely. The new owner, the shelter staff and Reggie himself – it seemed like one of those adoptions that would go flawlessly.
The new owner took Reggie home, and the shelter gave them some tennis balls (which he absolutely adores) and also a letter from the owner.
However, the relationship between Reggie and his new owner started to take a turn for the worse.
Apparently, the four-footer downright refused any command when his name was called, and the two have had a couple of bad experiences that didn’t help their bonding at all.
“This just wasn’t going to work,” the new owner recalls. “He chewed a couple shoes and some unpacked boxes. I was a little too stern with him and he resented it, I could tell.”
He made the decision to return Reggie to the shelter.
He was looking for the shelter number and while going through Reggie’s things, he also found the letter of the owner which he completely forgot about. Of course, he decided to read the letter since it was addressed to the new owner, and that changed everything.
The letter revealed a number of different things, and some of them were quite shocking to read.
It instantly changed the man’s mind to return the dog to the shelter.
It turns out that the dog’s name wasn’t Reggie at all, and the letter explains the complicated story behind it.
“To whoever gets my dog,” the letter starts. “Well, I can’t say that I’m happy you’re reading this, a letter I told the shelter could only be opened by Reggie’s new owner. I’m not even happy writing it. If you’re reading this, it means I just got back from my last car ride with my Lab after dropping him off at the shelter. He knew something was different. (…)
The owner then proceeds to tell more about the pup, his feeding schedule, the commands he knows, what he likes to play with and so on.
However, in the middle of the letter, the original owner – soldier Paul Mallory – reveals something shocking.
“(…) this transition is going to be hard, with him going to live with someone new. And that’s why I need to share one more bit of info with you… His name’s not Reggie. I don’t know what made me do it, but when I dropped him off at the shelter, I told them his name was Reggie. He’s a smart dog, he’ll get used to it and will respond to it, of that I have no doubt. But I just couldn’t bear to give them his real name. For me to do that, it seemed so final, that handing him over to the shelter was as good as me admitting that I’d never see him again.”
The pup’s real name was Tank – and that immediately explains why Tank and his new owner got off on the wrong foot and why he was disobedient.
The soldier only had one request for the new owner, and it’s a heartwarming one.
“Good luck with Tank. Give him a good home, and give him an extra kiss goodnight – every night – from me,” he wrote.
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Source: PawMyGosh
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iHeartDogs.com
In 2014, inspired by his rescued Siberian Husky Splash, Justin Palmer started a Facebook page called I Love Dogs. The page quickly grew to over a million fans and in 2015, Justin cofounded iHeartDogs.com with Marshall Morris, an army veteran. Inspired by their passions for helping shelter dogs and supporting our veterans, Justin and Marshall built a line of products that give back to shelters and raise money to provide service dogs for veterans in need.