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Run away soul dog found after 6 days of searching thanks to unlikely event and its location, ending in emotional reunion after the dog was freed from the trees his leash got tangled in:’ I called out Scout's name and I heard him whine. I knew that whine.’

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    "I'm so glad I never gave up, that I pushed myself out of my comfort zone"
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    A bit of a back story: my dogs name is Scout and he is my super mutt. My best friends dog (a purebred pitbull) had a litter of pups with a stray mutt and she kept telling me that I was going to have one of them.
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    I refused, I was unwavering and certain that I wasn't a dog person. However as I watched them grow.. I fell in love with all of them and one day I said screw it. I told her I would do a trial run and she gave me
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    the first pick of the litter. I was handed a beautiful female that resembled her mother and then she convinced me to take another male so they wouldn't be lonely. I named them Stella and Scout. Unfortunately
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    Stella didn't make it past 4 months. The grief of losing a puppy was almost unbearable; it made Scout that much more closer to me and he quickly became my soul dog and best friend. He is gorgeous- a
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    pitbull mix with floppy ears- white with spots like a dalmatian and 3 big brindle spots. He's made me realize that I just never found the right dog. He's smart as a whip, loyal, protective and my big baby.
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    Anyway, we have a nice routine- I have a tie out leash since I don't have a fence and I let him outside on it for about an hour every morning and night to use the bathroom. Otherwise he's an
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    inside dog. Eventually I plan on getting a fence so he can run around the yard, but yall know times are rough currently, so this plus walks is all i can manage for now. I had bought a
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    handmade dog house and I decided to tie his lead on the handle. Unfortunately Monday morning he must've saw an animal and ripped the handle right off to chase it.
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    This week was rough with him gone. After Scout went missing I hardly ate or slept. Grief hit in waves and hard. I obsessively scoured facebook lost/found pages, pawboost, Craigslist, shelter websites and so
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    many more in mine and surrounding towns. I contacted EPIC animal recovery for help. I hung up flyers and called shelters daily. I hiked in the woods near my house daily. I walked up and down the block countless
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    times trying to find any sign of him. I drove around for hours.. I couldn't bear the thought of him being stuck outside somewhere in the woods, unable to eat or drink, but I knew something was
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    keeping him from coming home. I wondered if someone found him- if he was being treated nice or being forced to fight since he is part pit. I wondered if he was г d by another
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    animal or hit by a car. I couldn't stop worrying about him and wondered if I would ever get answers.. On Saturday (day 6 of him being lost) my friend offered to
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    come over and knock on doors with me to hand out more flyers.. going around knocking on strangers doors made me feel uncomfortable/ar us as an introvert, so my friend said she didn't have to come
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    & we could skip the whole thing. But I had to try, I wanted my dog back so badly despite how uncomfortable I felt putting myself out there. I had to do everything i possibly could. Thankfully,
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    everyone we spoke to was really nice and helpful. Even though there wasn't any news about Scout, I did learn some new things. My friend and I are book lovers and there just so
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    happened to be book fair this weekend that I wanted to bring her to while she was in town. It was near my house, so when we were close I decided that we should take a break to check it out. When we got
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    there we heard howling, I swear it sounded like a wolf BUT she thought a wolf in the middle of the day didn't seem right and something was off. She said it sounded like a wounded animal to her. There was a
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    huge wooded area behind the book fair that stretched all the way back to my house. I never imagined scout would've gotten that far without getting his leash/handle of the dog house tangled up on something. There
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    was a trespassing sign which made us question if we should even bother, however she was packing which made us feel comfortable enough to at least look. As we got closer to the woods I called
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    out Scouts name and I heard him whine. I knew that whine. I've raised Scout and have known him since he was born. I told her it was him. I KNEW it was him. We walked a bit further and then she started yelling 'Its Scout!
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    There he is!'. Lo and behold there he was! He got his tie out lead wrapped up around three trees! | couldn't believe it. The odds of everything falling into place like that?? The odds of finding him at all in that much woods?? The
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    odds that Scout got stuck in the woods so close to the book fair?? The odds of the book fair happening on that weekend at that location right by where Scout got stuck?? BTW that book fair is the last one at that specific
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    location and even so, they only have one every 3 months for one weekend it's mind blowing. Without my friend I never would've gone to the book fair that day. Even if I had gone by myself, I never would have
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    thought that first noise we heard was my dog. And the reason I didn't recognize his 'bark' is because he practically lost his voice! When we told the people running the book fair about what happened they actually told us that
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    one of the workers there kept hearing a dog bark my poor baby was so close, yet so far and was trying to get help. They just assumed it was someone's dog because there was houses nearby. My poor Scout is hoarse
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    and he looks so skinny, but he's so alive considering he spent 6 days stuck in a small spot in the woods unable to eat. I assume he was able to drink rain water and possibly ate twigs or grass or something, im not sure. He's been so
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    energetic considering what he went through. I expected him to be lethargic and near deaths door but nope, he's a survivor and now he's safe, at home, cuddling with me in my bed as i type this story ** I'm so glad I never
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    gave up, that I pushed myself out of my comfort zone and I'm even more grateful I have an amazing friend who came through to help me get him back

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