Here’s the story about the dogs. Its a strange, scary story.
Mama dog, from here on known as girl, and puppy, from here on known as pup, are the characters.
The boys had pup outside playing in the yard, he’s really good about staying in with us, so we take him out without a leash. Until now that is.
I had went into the house for something, and when I came back outside, girl shot between my legs and took off, running as fast as she could, you would have thought she had been struck by lightening and was trying to get away as fast as she was running up the road. Well, pup saw his mama run up the road and took off after her. Both of them moving faster than the speed of light it seemed.
The boys took off after the two runaways, to no avail, they were too long gone, and girl, well she just doesn’t listen, and refuses to come when called. There was no way we were getting her to come to us. We hopped in the car, traveled all over the neighborhood, went down all the back roads around the land adjacent to ours, searching, yelling out the windows, and stopping everyone we saw to see if they had seen the dogs. No one had.
We went home to sit and wait for the scratch at the door. It came a humongous thunder storm,and I thought sure as the world the dogs would come home. They didn’t. As night fell, I knew that if pup got separated from girl, then he wouldn’t make it back. Girl has run off before, and always made it home, so we weren’t as worried about her as we were pup, after all he’s just 4.5 months old, and never been out of our yard before.
I was in a very deep sleep the next morning, when I heard the phone ring, and then heard Son4 give a little yelp of joy, my dad called and girl was at his house…. then it hit Son4 that girl had come home without pup. We all knew what that meant.

We all hit the road again, this time armed with flyers and cell phones, the younger boys hit the woods all around our house on foot, me and Son2 started going door to door in the neighborhoods connected to ours, showing our flyers asking anyone who breathed in air to please keep an eye out for pup.
After a couple hours, I went home and switched off kids, taking the two youngers with me to put up flyers around town. Before I hit the road again, I put an ad on craigslist and in a local paper. I was determined to do everything i could to find pup.
We head to the local animal shelter, to look at animals who had been turned in as strays. They took us back for a tour, and about halfway through the tour, the chickie turns and looks at me and says, I’m not supposed to tell you, but I think we have your dog…
I got sooo excited. But I wasn’t seeing pup in any of the cages. She takes us into the intake room, and kind of nonchalantly points to a cage on the top row, and there, sleeping like a zombie was pup. He was SO dead asleep it took me, and Sons 4 and 5 all three saying his name over and over to wake him up.
Let me tell you, as upset as we were, pup was that excited to see us, so excited, he peed all over himself and the cage, pawing madly to get out to reach us. When I heard his story, I understood why.
That morning, a gentleman had captured pup on a bridge, that crossed over a very busy interstate. Traffic had stopped, and there were about 10 people out of their cars trying to get pup off the road, with all the people chasing him, he ran to the side of the bridge and was literally 2 seconds from jumping off the bridge down onto the interstate.
Sons 4 and 5 both were in tears at finding pup, we immediately called oldest to tell him we had his pup, and we filled out paperwork, got him microchipped, and brought him home.
It was only after we got home, when I checked my email later on that day, I saw the rest of the story.
Seems as if pup and girl were found in a local factory parking lot early that morning. When faced with strangers, girl took off, heading towards home, leaving pup cowered under one of the cars, shaking and jerking just trying to get away.

One of the strangers tried his best to get pup from under the car to help him, but pup wouldn’t come out. Evidently he waited to come out after they had all gone. That’s when he went to the bridge and stopped traffic. There were pictures of his plight on craigslist, with all sorts of commentary about the story.
Pup and girl are safe and sound, and neither one of them offer to shoot out the door. Pup has even taken to liking being on a leash now. I think he feels safe that way. Us, well, we all slept very well knowing our babies were home.
Talk back to me baby