Valerie has been rescued!
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Exhausted and relieved, the Kangala Wildlife Rescue team have revealed precisely how they finally caught Valerie the dachshund, after 529 days on the run in Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
The Kangala directors, Jared and Lisa Karran, were excited to share the news that Valerie had been secured, but they were also extremely careful not to let the small dog escape from a specially designed cage.
“There was no way we were letting that sausage dog run away on us again,” Jared said in an update posted to social media. Valerie’s owners, Georgia Gardner and Josh Fishlock, are said to be “over the moon”..
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Yeah!
I love dachshunds. I wouldn't want the daily responsibility. I don't have a fenced yard, my home isn't suited for a small dog, and the breed doesn't have legs long enough to go up and down two of three entrance points to my home.
It's impossible.
I haven't given up on getting an affectionate, young, orange, male cat.
Me thinks it would be better to wait until my housemate and I aren't living together.
I would never subject a cat to my present environment.
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That is a charming story... But I have some questions.... Why did Valerie escape? Do her parents not live on Kangaroo Island then? The rescue efforts must have been expensive, who paid??
@ShiroKuro said in Valerie has been rescued!:
Why did Valerie escape?
Her owners left her in a playpen while they went to fish. She managed to escape from the playpen.
I think there were a lot of volunteers who helped in the search and rescue efforts. Not sure where the owners live but I'm guessing it's not on the island.
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@ShiroKuro said in Valerie has been rescued!:
Why did Valerie escape?
Her owners left her in a playpen while they went to fish. She managed to escape from the playpen.
I think there were a lot of volunteers who helped in the search and rescue efforts. Not sure where the owners live but I'm guessing it's not on the island.
@wtg said in Valerie has been rescued!:
She managed to escape from the playpen.
Dogs gonna dog I guess!
@wtg said in Valerie has been rescued!:
I think there were a lot of volunteers who helped in the search and rescue efforts.
that makes the story even more charming!
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Vaalerie had som mad survival instincts.
That is quite a story, including the extraordinary efforts by the animal rescue team to finally corral her.
Big Al
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Vaalerie had som mad survival instincts.
That is quite a story, including the extraordinary efforts by the animal rescue team to finally corral her.
Big Al
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When dogs get lost, they often go feral within minutes. Their primitive instincts for survival are still very much present, despite their relatively luxurious existences these days. A lap dog becomes a wolf again in just about no time.
I learned all about this when I lost my dog.
