Yesterday, our first pride and joy Prada (Our boxer) ran away. DH woke up at 6am to go bathe our dogs..and as I don't want to blame him so much for doing this but..he took both of them outside at the same time to wash. He usually takes one of them at a time. Well I don't know why he had this bright idea. Our little dog (Min. Pin.) loves to be attached to the hip to our boxer. Their like best friends. Well, he has this spazzing problem where he goes crazy if he sees her about 20 feet away from him. It would be better if he was in the house and she was outside by herself that way he can at least not see what she's doing. He likes to be the center of attention I guess you can say.
Anyway, DH finished bathing the little dog first. I don't know why since our boxer is twice as big and I ALWAYS tell him to wash her first that way she can dry off while he's bathing since it takes her a little bit longer to dry off. He NEVER listens. Anyway, I could hear our little dog barking, crying, spazzing out from inside of the house all the way in our master bedroom (they were in the garage). I didn't think much of it. He came in and told me that Prada ran down the street and he came to bring our little dog Dash in. Well, whenever our boxer runs away she usually runs in circles in OUR street since we live in a Cul-De-Sac. This time that wasn't the case. DH put Dash in and got in his truck and went looking for her. He claims that he could see her before he brought Dash in. So right when he brought him in, he jumped in his truck and left fairly quickly to find her and he claims he couldn't see her at all as soon as he left in his truck. Well, DH's definition of "fast" isn't so fast. He is slow in EVERYTHING he does. He takes his time. I'm so mad at him. He's mad at himself. We can't really blame anybody because she was shaking to dry herself off and her collar was loose. So she ran off. Usually my dogs don't notice their collars are loose but I think our boxer was pretty fed up with the fact that she wasn't getting "as much" attention as she use to. That was DH's soul mate. They had the same birthdays and he loved that dog. It was unfortunate that he was the one that didn't take her running off so seriously. If he claims he rushed to jump in his truck to look for her and she was no where to be found so quickly (she does NOT run that fast, she's slow in running, slower than my little dog). Then I do have a feeling that someone probably saw her and grabbed her and put her in their car then drove off. Because we live in the first street when you turn into the neighborhood. Well all day yesterday we searched this whole neighborhood. I mean she couldn't have gotten THAT far. But then again we live right behind a shopping strip and a fast food restaurant. DH took Dash outside late last night to look for her again and he thought he heard her bark but it was another dog. I just don't understand, out of all dogs that get loose around here (even the lady thats 2 houses down from us has about 5-10 dogs literally and they get loose and wander around all the time) and none of them I've seen never get actually "lost". Their just wandering around the neighborhood. We do have two tracks and a little further down a playground area. The tracks use to be bayou's so they have water in them. I have no idea why we can't find her at all. We dont want to think the worse but we don't know what else to do. That was our first baby, our first dog and we love her to death.
I really think she was fed up because that was DH's best friend but when Abigail came along we couldn't play with her as much as she wanted us to. Our boxer LOVES to play and she loves the attention. We showed her we loved her but it wasn't enough. Whenever DH would play with Abby, she would stare with sad eyes. I felt so bad. We BOTH feel so bad. It opened our eyes to show us that we took our dog for granted...and she was one spoiled dog so she was so use to being spoiled that when we didn't show that anymore, she took it hard. Our little dog, he wasn't as spoiled so he's pretty laid back, calm and easy peasy. I miss my boxer. She was so smart, gentle, loving, and just loved to play.
We're NOT losing hope. DH just made LOST DOG signs before he left work this morning. He said theres no local animal shelters near us so he doubts that anyone dropped her off there. I doubt anyone would want to give her up. She's such a beautiful brindle breed boxer. Loving ,caring, loyal, she listens, she's not hard to train. Well, she's WELL trained. I'm going to miss our Prada. We love her so much. It breaks my heart...
Big sad face! :( I hope the lost dog poster helps! Keep us posted on FB!
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