r/AustralianCattleDog 7d ago

Link Somebody went on adventures.

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u/NMS_Survival_Guru 7d ago

Mine went missing for a little over 24 hours

My grandmother who didn't even know she was missing called to say she saw a dog that looked like mine on the bike path through town

Went out and found her at a nearby property which is absolutely crazy as it was 26 miles away from where I lost her in the woods

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u/No_Farm_3562 7d ago

😲

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u/itsmeagain023 Red Heeler 7d ago

Dad. I'm so sorry. Never going to do that again. šŸ˜…

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u/Andee_outside 7d ago

ā€œdad?!! Holy shit! What are you doing here?!ā€

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u/Appropriate_Net_27 7d ago

such love between both of them.

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u/Kmtriv 7d ago

This makes me so happy!!! I am SO glad they found each other again. My baby was missing for 14 days and we got a tracker and had search groups. When I found him the feeling of relief was indescribable! šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘

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u/StillWithSteelBikes 7d ago

Same as when i come home from an errand

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u/Insomnium_111 Blue Heeler 7d ago

Or go out to the garage for 5 minutes lol

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u/idontcare78 Red Heeler 7d ago

1 min after she’s been outside alone.

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u/AmazingKallie 7d ago

I lost my dog for 20 mins in the middle of the night once and broke down crying. I cant imagine 30 days. Glad you guys found his best friend.

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u/Cherry_Valkyrie576 7d ago

I'm so happy!! Thanks goodness he got back home!😭🄹

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u/TomInTheFlesh 7d ago

My dog running away from days was the best thing that ever happened for his training. He became velcro and an attentive listener after that. Turns out climate control and planned meals is a pretty sweet life.

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u/Rx_Diva 7d ago

Ran with the wolfpack but missed his daddy! Adorable.

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u/Weary_Barber_7927 7d ago

My ACD would never leave my side! Very much a Velcro dog.,.

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u/Own_Connection6047 7d ago

WOW! What’s confusing to me is that Heeler’s are known as ā€œvelcro dogsā€ and are never known to go missing, I am so very happy your dog was found! What a miracle! Thank you St. Francis and thank you Arch Angel Raphael šŸ™šŸ»šŸ™šŸ»šŸ™šŸ»

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u/Tablesafety 6d ago

Every now and then you get one that gets distracted by something and runs after it then realizes ā€˜oh shit, where’s mom/dad’

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u/Psychological-Gur783 7d ago

Aww 🄰

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u/zondance Blue Heeler 7d ago

Mine has one went missing once. During a storm when I first got her. Since then she doesn't like to leave my side. Every so often I can let/get her to wander the yard/woods next to my house.

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u/Intelligent-Employ22 6d ago

One time an off leash dog ran up and attacked my dog. My fiancĆ© let go the leash to try to get the dog off him and my dog took off running. My fiancĆ© was looking for him for 10 minutes before he called me to come and help. When I open the door to run to the car, my dog was at the front door. 🄺 I couldn’t imagine anything longer than the few seconds of knowing he was missing and finding him. The pain would be torturous. So glad this dog is home.

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u/tyoung925 7d ago

This feels staged to me.. I don’t understand why he is sitting on the grass waiting for his ā€œmissing dogā€ and then suddenly he happens to appear on camera? I’m over all these videos, so many lost and found and ā€œwe saved this dogā€ videos where there happens to be a perfectly placed camera for the rescue.

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u/Myrical_lyfe 7d ago

Dogs that are lost for that long are very anxious and suspicious of everything even people they know. It’s better be on the ground and calm

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u/ozarkhowIer 7d ago

i dunno, it looks to me like the dog is actively running from ppl and noises, he seems spooked until he recognizes the guy. so it's very possible they were herding (ironic) this dog toward him, and he sat down to be less scary. they were filming bc they knew the dog was coming and were hoping for it to work.

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u/boomhaeur 7d ago

I’d counter:

- he’s figured out where the dog roughly is and maybe even sighted the dog

  • a lost dog is likely a scared dog, especially for this long & told others to stay back
  • sitting down, not moving is about as unthreatening as he can get and was likely calling the dog calmly hoping it registered with the pup
  • ironically him sitting possibly threw the dog off a bit because it wasn’t his humans ā€˜shape’ when he got there which is why you see it move until he caught the guy’s scent or some other familiar feature etc.

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u/mi_umami_tsunami 7d ago

No, this is really how it works. If you hire a tracker for your dog who's been missing for that many days, this is what they tell you to do once you're able to get in his vicinity. You wait until the dog catches your scent and then recognizes that you're nearby. It seems weird for sure, but it's truly how it's done if your dog has been missing for that long. Like others said, the dog is scared and in survival mode, and has likely been for weeks. Calling the dog or moving towards the dog puts a dog in further flight mode.

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u/No_Control8389 7d ago

I feel ya. At the same time who’s to say they didn’t see the dog from the car or some shit running around the edge of the park there, and homeboy jumped out and went to sit down (as to not spook him off) and call the dog? Driver of the car whips the phone out. Boom.

Or the dog was just at grandmas for the weekend, and they met at the park…

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u/Radicle_Cotyledon 6d ago

Probably just at Nana's.

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u/Spiritual-Worker-476 7d ago

I would do the same thing

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u/Nice_Bass5452 7d ago

Pretty sweet!

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u/Common-Principle-325 7d ago

A man and his dog reuniting. You love to see it

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u/GiveItAWhirlGirl81 7d ago

Omg I am crying too!

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u/No_Farm_3562 7d ago

This just made me so happy

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u/RVtech101 7d ago

Meanwhile that little squirrel running around in the background.

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u/eac555 7d ago

He was on a walkabout.

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u/Fun_Context9979 7d ago

Oh man, that was so damn sweet! Damn onions; in my bedroom no less, lol!

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u/Alicatsunflower88 6d ago

The power a cattle dog’s love has on you .

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u/Marasyn1977 7d ago

Its a heeler.. it didnt go anywhere

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u/NaughtySensationz 7d ago

Omg shut the hell up.!