What started out as a run in the woods for D and Bodhi yesterday turned into a stressful 20 hours. Bodhi took off after a deer, and didn’t come back. He’s done this before and it’s usually a 10 minute foray into the wild until he returns. This time, D looked for him with a friend of hers for eight hours, and at dusk she had to let it go. Fortunately, Flag is a dog town, and most people own one or two dogs so you can pretty much bank on getting a phone call before a dog pound call if your dog has tags. Bodhi had his on, thankfully.
I took off at 6am this morning with Ellsie and JHam on bikes and we canvassed as much area as we could before they had to peel off to work. Observatory Mesa is huge, and you could keep yourself lost on fire roads and single track for a couple of days. As I was coming back down the mesa towards town I saw D on the trail below me and she was on the phone – with a resident who said Bodhi had wandered into her yard around 6am. We boogied back to town, got the car, and picked his tired, beaten down arse up and hauled him home. He was about 4-5 miles from where he had been lost – he had crossed a major road going to the Grand Canyon, and ambled into the yard of this family that fortunately had two dogs. Lucky duck.
So, after a sleepless night, and a whole lotta stress over the missing furry kid, he’s back and probably ready to go again. This time he’s going to be introduced to Mr. Shock Collar. Mr. Shock, meet Bodhi. Like most dogs, Bodhi will probably be smart enough to figure out that he really will only want to get to know Mr. Shock once or twice – and that stickin’ close to his parents on hikes/runs in a good thing.
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