Reunited: Rusty Basset Fauve De Bretagne Male

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2008-08-10 20:26 hello janey

fantastic news!! welcome home x

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2008-08-10 18:20 BassetsRUS

Just realised the one that backtracked wasn't the Fauve!!!  Well what a clever dog ..... must be half-hound!!?

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2008-08-10 18:18 BassetsRUS

Brilliant!!  So Fauves are just like Bassets!!  My leaving something in the spot they went from came from a very old long established old Basset person from one of the most famous, if not the most famous kennel that brought Bassets through the War.  I've never forgotten this.  And, if left alone and not picked up, dogs will get back home.  An incredible journey story - dog ran off on an island (I think it was the Isle of Wight, but this was a second hand story, so I'm not certain).  Owners were on holiday but had, eventually to return home. Heartbroken they left the Island.  Dog turned up days later back home off the island.  He'd got on the ferry all by himself.  The ferry operator left him alone as he said it was obvious the dog knew what he was doing.  So it's not just cats who go back to their previous homes, but dogs have a homing instinct too.  Message - sometimes it pays not to interfere!!

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2008-08-08 23:17 Yasa

Lovely story - welcome home Barney x

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2008-08-08 20:32 DogLostReynard

Blimey fantastic they are home! I was going to give owner a call and the dogs have beat me to it! Very good comments by owner and thanks for updating us, it is so good to have happy outcomes.x

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2008-08-08 17:44 DogLostJayne - Founder Doglost.

e mail from owner: Hi,
I sent an email yesterday afternoon reporting Barney and Lucky missing from BS8 in the South West.  Fortunately both have been found safe and well.  They had stay together for nearly 29 hours and were spoted in the garden of a remote farmhouse.  Barney agreed to be taken in but had lost his collar but Lucky ran off and continued to try and find her way back to where she had ’escaped’ from.  I found her sitting by the side of my car that was parked there at the house she had run away from at 4am this morning - nearly 36 hrs after disappearing, in a completely strange area, she found her way back to exactly the spot she had gone from.
We didn’t know Barney was safe until this morning as his collar had come off and the people that had him couldn’t get in touch with the dog warden until his office oppened.  Fortunately, Barney has a micro-chip with up-to-date contact information and the warden scanned him and contacted us.
My thoughts
Never underestimate your dogs ability to ’track back’ to where they went from and think about leaving something familiar for them at the spot so if they come back when you’re not there they will be encouraged to stay and wait for you.
Don’t just rely on a collar with a tag, make sure they’re micro chipped.  We would have had many more hours of anxiety if Barney hadn’t been chipped.
Finally, dogs are survivors my two are not exceptional, there will be plenty of dogs out there who are trying to make their way back and I’m sure most will. 
With many thanks

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2008-08-08 16:21 BassetsRUs

Please keep checking local Rescue Centres/Police etc. because they don't know this breed and will list him as a Terrier cross given half the chance.  Also, if possible, put down something with your smell at the point he ran off - I'd imagine, like his cousin, he might well return to where he took off, eventually.  It's worth a try.  Good luck.

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2008-08-08 12:38 DogLostLostdogs ScotlandSable - Regional Co-ordinator - Scotland

  Poster everywhere you can. Firstly inform the Dog warden who you will be able to contact at your council offices. Posters (In plastic folders) need to be put up in the area where Barney went missing, or where there have been sightings, if any - on lamp posts, entrances to parks and strategic places in parks,  like at the start and finish of tracks and paths, dog bins, at vets, pet shops, pubs, carry-out food shops, post offices,  local shops who often allow postcards in the window, supermarkets who have notice boards, community centres, youth clubs, schools etc. You can ask the postman, milkman, taxi drivers,  street cleaners,  bin men (even put poster on bins), to take some flyers and hand them out on their rounds. You can ask school bus drivers and kids on the bus, or if you have kids on the bus, get them to hand out flyers at school.  Deliver flyers to houses, businesses & pop through letterboxes . Hand out flyers to people in the street, especially dog walkers. Put posters or flyers  in  car windows. Rescue centres and kennels, also police offices need checking regularly and preferably visited in person, by owner or someone who knows the dog, because your dog or it's breed may not be recognised by other people. Also police are sometimes too busy to deal with it. Get some media coverage if you can, by asking the local radio station to broadcast Barney as missing and put an ad in the local newspaper with a picture of him. Good luck.

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