Story from my hometown newspaper

Kevin

Probably should have posted this on the shiba side, but I'm too lazy. Plus I just thought it was interesting.
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20101109/LOCAL0201/311099981

sunyata

Interesting... I am quite glad that Nara was found safe and sound, waiting for breakfast.

Saya

Yeah I'm glad she was found too always sad to hear a dog go missing especially in the same state I'm in..

BradA1878

The start of that article bothered me a bit. I didn't like how the writer attempted to place a higher value on the dog because its a "show dog", even going as far as to suggest people who own shows dogs suffer a more "traumatic" experience when their dogs get lose compared to people who own "mutts".

I think the writer was trying to be clever, but it just came across as cold (and uneducated).

sunyata

@brada1878: I agree. I thought the article was poorly written and took offense that owners of show dogs are more traumatized than pet owners when their dogs get loose. I know that if one of my non-show dogs ever got loose (knock on wood), I would be completely traumatized. I am not sure that I would rest until she was back home!

tjbart17

Agreed with the writer putting too much on the show dog bit. I was let down that the last two paragraphs didn't take up the most of the story. That was very clever of her.

baanton

Love the ending of the story. I agree with everyone else... doggie escapes are heart-stopping for even owners of "mutts" who are rescued... Witness my son's doggie ... she was blessed by her "chip" 2 times in a week early last summer, after deciding to take a walk on her own after determining an escape route from her yard. I can tell you there was no end of panic and anxiety until the "chip" calls came in, and gratefully in a few other similar instances she found her way home on her own.

Kevin

Tuula isn't a show dog or anything of the sort, but when I lost her at night off leash in the woods a few weeks ago, I freaked out. This guy's writing is, in retrospect, really poor. Typically, his human-interest stories aren't bad. He's written a few articles about a friend of mine who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident 3 1/2 years ago and those were pretty well-written.
Admittedly, if you knew Fort Wayne, you'd want your dog to get lost pretty much anywhere other than where Nara did. The busiest highway through town is right by where she was lost and a very busy series of intersections in within