eclairs mom

My heart has just been removed from my mouth! I'm doing my Sunday chores, hubby is getting ready to go out and run his, pooches have been in and out all morning, and there is more snow out side. So I'm vacuuming downstairs, one Golden, one Cocker and one Basset under foot but NO Ethel. Not out side, not locked in any room, not on the back of the armchair-NOWHERE!!

I literally hunt high and low, to no avail, then realize the garage is open from hubby leaving, OMG, she got out!! In my PJs and snow boots, I yell and yell, but can't see escape pawprints. The yard and drive is still untouched snow except for jeep tracks on the drive.

I call and call for her in the house, and go looking again. What do I find under the covers and mass of pillows on our bed, but a tight basset ball bump! I pulled back the covers and there she is, snoring! Opens one eye, waggs her tail and then goes back to sleep!

She had no clue I was looking her her! No chance of her being a watchdog!

Barney'spal

I know exactly what you went through...couple of times I "misplaced" one of mine....what a horrible feeling Always found them under or behind something but at the time was sure that he had gotten out of the fenced yard...

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CatherineM

I had one basset that we nicknamed the Houdini Dog. He escaped all the time. He was gone a week once and then someone called from a 7-11 a mile away wanting to know if this was our missing dog. He had gotten in and was eating cookies off the lower shelves.

Wonderful way to start the day full of adrenaline.

Sadie&MaggieQ

We had one of those right before Thanksgiving...We take the girls out without their leashes when we are both with them. We had taken them out and put them in the house with the garage open and went to get briefcases out of the car. Apparently while we were getting briefcases, Sadie sneaks out of the house and out of the garage. We closed the garage and put things our bedroom and the hubby remembers he left something in the car and goes out the front door and finds Sadie laying in front of the closed garage door. OMG...we didn't even know she was outside! Talk about the things that went through our minds.

Lightning&Stomps

Oh, I know you were scared to death, but that is so funny!

Swimming-duck

Oh my - what a scare! So glad your furbaby was safe and sound snoozing away!

Orion

Ethel- the Hide n Seek Champion!

Jnfr

Oh Geez, I have had one of those nights.

A couple of months back, Jake woke me from a dead sleep because he needed to go out (he'd been suffering from the squirts) Half asleep I let him out, let him in.... Oh My God... Abby is GONE! I freak, wake the whole house, running around outside in my jammies (t-shirt, panties & flip flops) yelling for Abby. Have hubbie and step-son combing the property, I go in to put on pants so I can start running down the road like a crazy momma... Abby is sleeping (snoring) in the bed... in my sleepy stupor, I didn't realize, I did not put her out with Jake... I was sure the guys were ready to kill me!

Ed's best friend

OMG, How funny/scary is that?

Lou got out of our yard once. But he just sat in the middle of our street, till one of the neighbors got him and brought him back to us. He was about 50 feet away from the house. Thank God it's like a dead end street....

Jnfr

Scary (actually terrifying at the time) funny and Mom's over reaction looking back.

Stupid hounds, turn me into a crazy lady at times!