(Australian Cattle) Dog overboard found four months later

Yahoo.com ^ | 6 Apr 09 | AFP

[big'ol_freeper]

A pet dog that fell overboard in rough seas off Australia has been reunited with its owners after surviving alone on an island for four months, reports said.

Sophie Tucker, apparently named after a late US entertainer, fell overboard as Jan Griffith and her family sailed through choppy waters off the northeast Queensland coast in November.

The dog was believed to have drowned and Griffith said the family was devastated.

But out of sight of the family, Sophie Tucker was swimming doggedly and finally made it to St Bees Island, five nautical miles away, and began the sort of life popularised by the TV reality show "Survivor."

She was returned to her family last week when Griffith contacted rangers who had captured a dog that had been living off feral goats on the largely uninhabited island, in the faint hope it might be their long-lost pet.

[big'ol_freeper]

[big'ol_freeper]

Great breed of dog.

[Terpfen]

Just wow.

[armymarinemom]

Clever dog.

[Not A Snowbird]

Tough little fellow!

[DManA]

Once they have goat, they’ll never go back to kibble.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Glad they got their pet back. I’m afraid she’s ruined for herding, though.

[Joe 6-pack]

Australia, eh? I’m guessing the owners speak Austrian ;-)

[DuncanWaring]

Here earlier:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2223256/posts

[Nat Turner]

That was a good one Joe!!!! LOL

[big'ol_freeper]

Thread nanny hey.

[dinodino]

LOL great post!

[arthurus]

No. They speak Australian. It is difficult to learn and very strange to the ear.

[Mr. Mojo]

I’m afraid she’s ruined for herding, though.

Sounds like she's a pet house dog anyway. ...albeit an extraordinarily tough/smart one.

[DuncanWaring]

No, I was just pointing out it was somewhere else, also.

If I was being a “thread nanny”, I would just have hit “Abuse” and pointed it out to the Moderator without any mention on the thread.

The duplicate’s understandable; both threads have the word “four” in the title, but “Search” only finds one.

[Fawn]

What’s up with the fonts in here?

[mamelukesabre]

All that swimming I thought for sure it must’ve been a lab.

[big'ol_freeper]

The search thing is so bad that I don’t even use it anymore for the reason you described.

[mamelukesabre]

Yep. The dingo blood kicked in and took over. No turning it off now.

[big'ol_freeper]

Tough/smart they are. I have had four of them. I had to have my female put down a month ago and have a puppy right now...I forgot what puppies were like...ARGH!