Tina
01-23-2001, 01:57 PM
I am very well aware, that I´m not telling a cute story about my dachsies, this is more like a horror-story but anyhow, it is a very educating one. I was going to go for a walk with my dogs one afternoon. I had just got out of the front-door when my daughter asked for something to drink. She had been ill and in bed for a couple of days and had developed a temperature, so I had to go in again. I was sure that the dogs would pee on the floor, if I took them in again, so I took an extra leash, tied the three leashes together with it and finally tied this leash around a pole next to the stairs. When I returned after some five minutes, I found that Helga, Miss Piggy and Little Princess (my three standard dachsies) were gone and so were all the leashes. After vigorous whistling and yelling I managed to make Candy (a 7 month old long-haired mini)appear behind a barn but in spite of intensive searching I did not see a sign of the others.
It seemed impossible to me that three dachsies tied to each other could run any distance without being entangled in the bushes and trees in the garden and by the wayside. But after four hours, when it had been completely dark most of the time I was desperate. I had walked and driven the car, I had whistled, called and even howled. I had looked for footprints in the lamplight and tried to listen to all sounds of whining or barking.Everything was in vain, and I saw already my babies strangled by some evil tree or eaten by vicious beasts of the forest or starved to death
But finally I came to my best idea and asked my eight-year old son to call the dogs and listen carefully.(How lucky he was not ill). He said he could hear them barking in the forest and although I did not hear a thing, we set off. We stopped several times and the boy listened and told, which direction to take. And after almost an hour we found them, about one mile away from home.
They were entangled in a small spruce and twigs and long straws were attached to their leashes. <IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm30.gif" border=0>
After their "little adventure" Miss Piggy was coughing blood and Helga was bleeding and having difficulties in respiration. Little Princess seems to have got away almost without a scratch. After one week they seem to have made complete recovery. Still I can´t understand how they managed to do it- a mile in the woodlands witout for once running the wrong side of a tree.<IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm14.gif" border=0> This adventure is sure to make me shiver a long time afterwards. I could be here writing some lines to memorize the three dachsies, that disappeared because of the stupidity of their owner..
It seemed impossible to me that three dachsies tied to each other could run any distance without being entangled in the bushes and trees in the garden and by the wayside. But after four hours, when it had been completely dark most of the time I was desperate. I had walked and driven the car, I had whistled, called and even howled. I had looked for footprints in the lamplight and tried to listen to all sounds of whining or barking.Everything was in vain, and I saw already my babies strangled by some evil tree or eaten by vicious beasts of the forest or starved to death
But finally I came to my best idea and asked my eight-year old son to call the dogs and listen carefully.(How lucky he was not ill). He said he could hear them barking in the forest and although I did not hear a thing, we set off. We stopped several times and the boy listened and told, which direction to take. And after almost an hour we found them, about one mile away from home.
They were entangled in a small spruce and twigs and long straws were attached to their leashes. <IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm30.gif" border=0>
After their "little adventure" Miss Piggy was coughing blood and Helga was bleeding and having difficulties in respiration. Little Princess seems to have got away almost without a scratch. After one week they seem to have made complete recovery. Still I can´t understand how they managed to do it- a mile in the woodlands witout for once running the wrong side of a tree.<IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm14.gif" border=0> This adventure is sure to make me shiver a long time afterwards. I could be here writing some lines to memorize the three dachsies, that disappeared because of the stupidity of their owner..