A Girl and Her Dogs

COW’S HOME! After being missing for 3 1/2 weeks!!!

Our baby boy’s finally home!!!!!!!

We can’t believe it! It’s an honest-to-God miracle!!

Cow, Sibby’s 6 month old puppy, has been missing for nearly a month…here’s what happened:

On the morning of March 19th, around 8 am (or so we were told by our neighbors) one or more of our dogs decided they wanted to explore the world and pulled a Houdini on us - they managed to push up the screenless window in the gallery (the big room they stay in that has a dog door connected to our fenced in yard) - and 13 of our dogs escaped out into the woods nearby. We were still asleep, but when we woke up 2 hours later (to let the 3 that sleep with us out to pee) they were gone! Over half our dogs were gone! We were panicking! This had happened before (not the window - that time was because the wind blew a fence panel over) but not as many got out and we caught it right away, so all but 2 were back inside within the hour.

This time not a single one of the 13 dogs were in sight! We ran around calling and shortly we got Lisie, Piper, Libby and Tequila back. A Little bit later Cashleigh came running home. Then right about dark Killian and Chaser made it back. A few hours later Fedor showed up, followed by Gizmo. But then night turned into morning, and no more had come back. We spent the next day looking for the missing pups (all 5 months old) - Nia (who had just had surgery on her head to remove a blood clot), Mikeylah and Cow. It had rained that night and I was so upset and worried that they were hurt and lost (or worse) in the woods (we live out in the country by a lot of thick woods, cow pastures and creeks).

I had walked miles looking and calling for them when my mom suggested we drive around to the closest neighbors and ask if they’d seen them. It was a longshot but we did it. We talked to one guy who suggested we call another guy or his sister, neither were home so I left a message. The sister, Ann, called me back and told me she had seen 2 puppies about half a mile down the road by an old holding pen, not two hours earlier - we went there and there was Nia and Mikeylah!! We were ecstatic! Needless to say I was balling my eyes out! But there was no Cow anywhere to be seen.

After I brought Nia and Mikeylah back home, we went back out to look for Cow, but didn’t find him anywhere. I put up posters and fliers everywhere and even offered a reward, but no one called. We were heartbroken and mourned the loss of Cow for weeks - we held out hope and ran to look outside every time we heard one of the dogs bark, but we were getting more and more worried that we’d never see him again.

Then yesterday afternoon one of my elderly neighbors called and said her cousin was walking down the road, about 1 1/2 miles away, and saw a puppy beside an old wooden bridge. She thought it might be mine so she told me to follow her down there. I was trying so hard not to get my hopes up! But when we got there, I jumped out of my car and ran over to the bridge and my heart went into my throat! MY BABY WAS THERE! Cow was laying underneath a wooden plank, surrounded by brambles - he had a bag of trash opened by his feet (I guess what he’d been living off of, along with creek water). I screamed his name over and over and cried and ran to him, picked him up and just hugged and kissed him so hard!

We took him immediately to the vet, and other than being malnourished, filthy and worm-ridden, he was fine!!!!!!

He’s now bathed and full and happy - safe at home and back with his family!!! We missed him SOOO much! We are SOOOOO happy he’s back - and he’s SOOOO happy he’s home! He keeps running to me and kissing and jumping up!!

I just can’t tell you how much of a miracle this is!! It’s amazing!!!

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