Lost at sea, dog shows up after four months
Four months after their cattle dog fell overboard off the coast of Australia, a couple has been reunited with the pooch.
Owner Jan Griffith said her dog, Sophie Tucker, fell off the side of their boat in choppy waters off the Mackay coast in north Queensland in late November.
Apparently, the dog swam five nautical miles to St. Bees Island, where she survived until last week by hunting baby goats. She was returned to her family last week after rangers captured what they believed was a wild dog, according to an Australian Associated Press report.
Ms. Griffith said she and her husband had contacted rangers after friends suggested the dog – who had developed a reputation on the island – might be their long-lost pet.
Last Tuesday the couple met the rangers’ boat as it ferried the dog back to the mainland.
“We called the dog and she started whimpering and banging the cage and they let her out and she just about flattened us,” Ms. Griffith said.
Posted by jwoestendiek April 6th, 2009 under Muttsblog.
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