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Nervous chow chow ran away from home after being spooked, sparking a full day of frantic searching around his local village, until he was found close to home chewing on a bottle: ‘He was overjoyed to see my husband, and willingly followed him home’

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    "Today Luci got lost. And thankfully, got found again too."
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    Today, Luci ran away. It happened in the morning, an hour or so after I'd left home. To explain our circumstances, we live in a household of three people + 1 dog. Most of the time, there's just my husband, Luci (our
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    dog), and me. The third person in the house is our housemate, who was the original inhabitant of the house, but who looked for someone to share it with after he broke up with his gf.
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    He is often gone for work, travelling between the place where we live, and a city 3 hrs away by train. He will often stay for 3-4 days, then be away for 4-5 days, then he'd be back, etc. This is the
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    main reason that, even after 3 months of living in this house, Luci does not trust him. He is mostly timid/afraid, and will bark at our housemate as he would at an intruder. We basically know every time he goes in and out.
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    The house has a garage, with one gate opening in the small driveway, and a side-door that goes into the house. Our housemate and I alternate between leaving one, and then the other car in the garage. While he
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    is gone from the house, it's his car that stays inside, so I can more easily drive in and out. This was the case this morning. So our housemate went into the garage, closing the house door. Luci was
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    ok with him. In the morning, I will often be the first to leave, though our housemate and I work in the same place. I feed Luci his breakfast, then leave. Our housemate was second to leave
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    today, and as I said, he made sure the garage was closed, then got into his car, and opened the gate. The wind blew the garage door open and Luci went inside. The gate was open now, and Luci got a sudden panic
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    when he saw the car and our housemate (he is afraid of cars AND of our housemate). He ran away. Our housemate followed him for a while, to no avail. Finally, realising Luci would never come
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    to him, he returned to get my husband. When they got me in the loop, half an hour later, I took a taxi home. We searched everywhere. We live in a village and we've walked him across all the
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    possible paths, hoping that if ever he gets lost, he knows how to come back. We asked maybe 100 people on the way, running across each path, and every direction. Finally my husband found him. He
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    Mua
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    wasn't far from home, chewing on half a plastic bottle - - an empty one. It's plastic-trash day, so he probably broke into one of the trashbags that are left outside for the collect, and got his
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    bottle. He was overjoyed to see my husband, and willingly followed him home So in the end, everything went ok, and I am really
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    grateful that it did. It could have been so much worse. My housemate has said he'd be willing to invest some time into getting Luci to trust him. It does mean giving up
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    some of his free time, which he currently spends going out, and considering that walking with Luci is demanding, requiring about 1hr of jogging per walk, he may even enjoy it.
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    So there we go. Today Luci got lost. And thankfully, got found again too.

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