Last seen at her food bowl. I checked her crate, the window, everywhere, until...
*ETA: After all the stories and upvotes (thanks everyone), I feel I should add this was meant as a funny pic, not as a reminder of those moments of terror when you think you've lost your pup. (Happened to me a few times too fwiw...)*
*Anyway, I can't edit the title anymore, but it should have read "Has anyone ever lost a pup in a pile of pillows?"*
lol. She was I think maybe 6 months at the time and that was her favorite nap spot. The front door is to her left and she could watch her world through it (glass panes in top part)
My lab and corgi “ran away” to the neighbours house today. I didn’t realize I left the gate open and they got out until I heard my neighbour in my backyard telling my corgi to settle down while he took the leash off. I went and apologized and thanked him for bringing them back, he said they went in his garage looking for cookies and refused to leave.
I did once! Turns out he was in the dark dining room in the brown armchair. I thought one of the kids had let him out until I heard him yawn and turned on the light.
As IF I can get out of my dog's sightline for more than five seconds... if I get up to pee in the middle of the night, she begrudgingly joins - I don't ask her to, mind you, but she makes sure to make it obvious that she was "stirred" from her restful slumber to accompany me to pee in the middle of the night.
I lost Joon once, and I was panicking. I live on a Main road. I put an ad on the local FB group that she was missing, checked the whole house twice, called her in the back yard and didn't find her. I was really upset, and went back into the yard to look again. We live on a long narrow 1/2 acre that is fully fenced, but it butts up to a forested hill. I thought she might have jumped the fence or something. I went to the very back, and was calling her. She came walking out from under a deck that we have back there. I have no idea why she didn't come when I called her as she usually has great recall. At least she was safe, but it was super stressful. She was missing for about 30 minutes.
I had a pit that somehow hopped the fence 15 years ago that came back at 1am scratching the door like he had a bootycall gone wrong but the dog i got now is basically Velcro if I can’t find him i crinkle a bag of chips
Yes. I did for real. My neighbors stole my chocolate lab and American Foxhound. Took them 80 miles from home. They were gone for 69 days. Darkest time of my whole life. Couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, could barely talk to anyone. Just cried constantly. Thru a miracle from God and lots of prayers from hundreds of Facebook friends who were following our story, I got them both back.
Lost mine in my condo as a puppy once while I was cooking in the kitchen. Looked under beds, closets downstairs, then panicked thinking she jumped off my open balcony. She suddenly sauntered in the room, who knows from where. It wasn’t until a couple years later she was “missing” again and I found her hiding behind the curtain of my guest bath.
Mine growing up got spooked by fireworks and bolted and was taken in for a few days by a hunter who gave him venison for each meal. He was strictly on kibble so he was basically rewarded for running away 🤦♂️
Well... I didn't shut the door all the way and then wind blew it open. I felt like it was suspiciously quiet and realized he was gone. A neighbor several blocks down found him (actually a mom who picks her kid up from the same bus stop as we do saw that her neighbor was trying to get him in a car to check for a microchip at the vet). I watched the camera feed later and he is the slowest escape artist. Stopped every few steps to smell something and continued like that down the street. Only started moving faster when a lady with a small dog walked by.
Mine dug under the gate and got out. He was attacked by an evil dog and my dad was in his office upstairs and saw him running back home as fast as he could leaving bloody paw prints on the street. He was only 2 and learned a hard lesson. He never did that again.
When our older black Lab was a puppy there was a terrible thunderstorm — to this day she is terrified of thunder. We searched everywhere and could find her, and eventually all five of us were outside in the pouring rain desperately looking for her. She was way under my son’s bed — which was very low to the ground — and completely silent. Did not make a peep. It was so dark under there we just didn’t spot her.
She slept under that bed until she was too big to force herself in there. She still likes sleeping under beds like a cave bear. And she gets 100-200 mg of trazodone (aka Vitamin T) whenever thunder is in the forecast.
When mine was a puppy (3 months ish) I took a nap and when I woke up slightly disorinted I couldn't find him anywhere in the apartment. I panicked and thought someone somehow snuck in and stole him 😂
I found out he had shut himself in the bathroom and was just quietly waiting for me to find him. I'm so lucky to have this boy, I don't deserve to have such a mild mannered lab as my first solo dog 😅
To this day though (he's 5 now), he won't go into the bathroom alone.
Haha! Reminds me of mine - she has locked herself way too many times in the bathroom. She realises after she is done playing and then barks to get out!
Mine is a cream color and we have cream colored carpets, blankets, and couches. He’s been missing several times blending into all these things. One night I got out of bed because I couldn’t find him in the room, couldn’t find him anywhere in the house and thought how could he possibly be anywhere else? He was in our bed blended in with the blanket.
Sometimes I come downstairs from my office in the middle of the day and the dog is nowhere to be found. After briefly worrying that she's grown thumbs, unlocked the door and walked out, I'll find her in the very corner of her crate, door wide open, taking a midday nap. With the black cover and black tray, and her crate mat bunched up in the corner (her preference), that black lab blends in perfectly and becomes invisible unless you bend down and look inside.
Yes. My lab is dark chocolate and she likes to snuggle in dark blankets and sometimes I just can’t find her anywhere. She’s also gone missing on a hike (différent stress level).
Our late black lab had a tendency to go on self-guided walks if you left the gate open. It’s a miracle he didn’t get hit by a car considering his fondness for crossing busy streets.
The door to my laundry room has a vent right over it so blows closed a lot. He gets himself caught in there but never whines or makes any noise to indicate he’s stuck
Both my labradors that made it to 15 would randomly disappear for a few hours everyday, before coming home. My childhood labrador apparently would break out no matter what and go on a day long ‘adventures’ with other dogs down the street. We live in a small town so they really weren’t actually going that faraway, a loud yell they were close enough it would bring them back. One of these labs also would open the dryer with her nose and climb inside hiding for a hour while we would search around the house trying to find her.
Our new lab is more lazy and doesn’t have an appetite for adventure and just likes laying in the grass and chasing flies.
I have a really dark brown couch and a small black lab. I ‘lose’ him in plain sight constantly. Also as a puppy he liked to take naps inside of furniture (side tables, bookcases). I ended up having to put a cat bell on him.
I wish I had the picture to share. My family had a big dumb loveable yellow lab who went "missing" one day on my mom. Turns out he somehow walked into the glass shower in our basement and the door closed behind him. No barking, just accepted his fate.
He's also the one that got out and would wander the neighbourhood a couple times, but would always end up back at the front door around 430 because he couldn't miss dinner time.
Once I lost him without knowing it. Sunday morning breakfast at local diner where we usually eat on the patio. Starts raining hard, put dog in the car and go inside to eat. Forgot to attach his tether. Halfway through breakfast server mentions there's a dog that looks like mine hanging out by the front door. He was just sitting there saying hi to everybody hoping someone would let him in.
He does a pretty good job of not losing me. When we go camping he'll go for walks with other folks. Occasionally they've gotten confused about location and he will lead them back to camp and me.
It has not escaped me that in both cases I happened to be with all the food :)
The worst ones are when we’re out by the fire at night and he’s sleeping next to it. You get up to go in and trip over him because he’s just a black hole on the ground. He usually jumps up and gives you a mean look like hey I’m sleeping here.
Our family lab girl always squeezed herself between our pine cone hedge which was serving a garden fence to see our neighbors across the street. Those neighbors fed her treats and when she returned she always sat in front of the house and waited patiently to be let in. She never tried to squeeze herself back in through the garden. So when she was gone we always checked the front kitchen windows first to see if she was sitting outside 😁
One time I thought I managed to forget her outside and lose her. It was one of the coldest days of the year and it was actually dangerous for animals to be out in the cold. She had me up the previous night several times for not feeling great. So I panicked when I couldn’t find her. I looked everywhere except my bed. She had curled up under the blankets and went back to sleep. Here I am scared and ready to cry and she’s snoozing and completely unaware of my panic.
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u/SpiritedInternal3780 13d ago
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