Last night I watered the front and back lawns. (Yard guy aerated and our lawn was bone freakin dry). We only have one sprinkler and quick connect (the dog ate the other quick connect, the piece that attaches the hose to the sprinkler or other water device) so I had to open the gate to get to the back yard to water the back yard.
Long story short, I opened the gate to do all of this. I did not, however, close the gate. Yeah. I’d let the dogs out this morning and everything was fine. I guess shortly after I left was when they made a run for it. A neighbor called Gene and said, I just saw both your dogs run across our yard. (Well, catch them, maybe? Or have you forgotten the time we left your dog in our yard all night? And the time we caught your dog at 6 AM and couldn’t get you to open the door to return him?). Gene went on a search for them, even going so far as to drive up and down the highway that we live off of to look for them. (The highway takes us to Barkin Buddies and they might have known the way).
He didn’t look around the houses near the park about 2 blocks from our house, however, and that’s where they were. Some kindly person let our dogs into their own yard and play with their own dog (“Your dogs played so well!” the neighbor told Gene) and then they noticed the collar with phone #, the AVID tag (the doggy lo-jack, basically) and the other assorted tags that scream GIVE ME MY DOG BACK. “We assumed you wanted them back,” the neighbor told Gene.
Sooo…Dogs escaped, but they are now safe. I wish Gene had worked a little harder to look for them, but then again he had work to do. If he had called me, I would have come home immediately, but my job isn’t super important and it’s not a busy time anyway.
So, that’s my story. I am such an idiot. I let my dogs down. I wasted my husband’s time. What would I do without these dogs? What if they had made it to the highway? What if they’d made it to the big roads? What if that lady wasn’t home? Or didn’t like dogs? These are such good dogs. I love them both so much. I hope this never happens again.
(Yes, I closed the gate a few minutes ago).