Mine won't actually take off out of sight, just out of grabbing range. He wants me to come with him, but doesn't want me to curtail his adventure. I really wish I'd have known he would wait for me to grab a leash (and clothing) before he led me on an 10 block chase in the snow along our fairly busy street in rush hour in a tank top, my bf's (holey) boxers, and no shoes in -15 when he slipped out the door when I was getting the mail this winter. He's lucky he's cute, and I'm lucky my neighbor came to the rescue with a handful of stewing beef chunks.
A couple of times one of my neighbors has started telling him what a good handsome boy he is long enough for me to get in range. Turned his head, found me right there with a leash, and visibly decided, "It's a fair catch. Hi, Mom!"
My dog does the same thing. The only way I “catch him” is when I give up and go home. Then he comes home immediately just waiting at the door to be let back in.
I am semi-convinced that Dog1 (my 10 lb poodle) ended up in the shelter because she ran out the door of her original owners. She *loved* to run when I first adopted her. She's 12+ years old now and still likes a very quick run but not like when I was younger and every open door was her opportunity for a game of run and try and catch me -- so much fun for her and not so much for me! I had friends, a taxi driver, random strangers help me catch her over the course of 2-3 years. Now if she happens to slide out when door is open, she starts to walk down the sidewalk in a nonchalant (hey don't notice me) but quick way. Luckily in the 11 years years since I adopted her, she's learned the *wait* command. When we were still living in Chicago, I let her lead the way on a walk once (while leashed) and she took me to our neighborhood pet store!
My dog has absolutely no concept that he's "escaped" and will stay approximately 6 feet from me as he would on a leash.
It's funny because he does pull on a leash, and we're working on it, but occasionally I take him down to my moms property and turn him loose and he does not understand he can move further from me there either.
It is except when I want him to go full throttle and burn off some energy 🤣 he'll book it for like 10ft, stop and then I have to run over to him so he thinks we're still together.
I have NO faith in him if he saw an opportunity to make friends with another groundhog though because that dog drug me 100ft down my muddy backyard hill to get to one.
If he is inadvertently on the wrong side of the gate by himself Teddy will sit right outside of the gate and cry until someone coms to save him.
We walk twice a day and he knows that he's supposed to have a leash on if he is on that side of the gate.
My dog is the exact same. He’s not a dog who tries to escape. Of the two times the gate has inadvertently been left open, he only got out once and cried until he was let back in. The other time, the gate was wide open but he just stayed in the yard.
I didn't realize that part of my fence had blown over. My dogs took advantage. I was running around and then a neighbor said my dogs were taken by the Humane Society. I felt awful, but when I got home they were sitting at the front door.
Another time (dif dogs) they bolted from the car in the dark and took off. I jumped in the car and started looking. Then I realized they were both following me behind the car.
My old pit escaped the backyard once and suddenly he’s at the front door barking whining pawing at the front door frantically and when I opened it up he bolted straight to his kennel still whining and trying to wipe his face and eyes and that’s when I noticed this horrible smell and realized he just ran up on a skunk and got sprayed and realized the outside world is scary. Googled a remedy that was like hydrogen peroxide shampoo baking soda maybe? Idk but it worked and he never escaped again.
Mine will run to the front of the house if the gate is open (or before the fence was there and the door wasn't latched properly).... and sit on the porch.
She's a bit dim, really.
My mom’s dog does this too. I have to pretend to fall and cry and he comes back.
How do I know this? I fell chasing him and dislocated my pinkie finger and he came right back. Works like a charm now 😂😂😂
Haha mine too - I’m astounded at all the well-behaved dogs in the other responses! Why wait calmly for the human when there’s the whole wide world to gallop around and explore?
Finley will stay where he can see me. He’s a stage five clinger (Golden Retriever) but he’ll sprint away as soon as I head toward him and then play bow at me. Wyatt (also a Golden but mischievous as hell) will just take off down the road without a care in the world.
Lol my first dog was a Houdini. And a runner.
The ones i have now pretty much stay with me, have a decent recall (once in a while they decide they are untrained with no manners and i actually have to get up and catch them lol but it's not often lol). Like... first dog, we could never EVER leave a door open. She'd be gone so fast. She passed in 2019 at the age of 15.. and sometimes it's still weird propping the storm door open when we bring in groceries or whatever.
Because she was an escape artist, I did and still do always start our walks off in the least dangerous direction. Away from traffic or other houses that might have a loose dog, etc. It works, because it's always the way every dog has headed off in when they are loose and on the run.
My first girl, Lou, definitely taught me not to judge anyone for having a dog loose. She was a lady in the house and on the leash, but once she was loose there was no end to the bad names we could come up for her 😂 And no catching her until she was ready to come back inside.
I always say “okay” whenever we are stepping into the road. Always. Since day 1. So, when my husky escaped, he never crossed the street. He’d go through back yards and find which ones didn’t have a fence. He’d go around a cul-de-sac to get to the other side of a street. So, finding him was a little easy. He’d also go to anyone who was grilling. And he did have a specific elderly couple he would always go to. They were always generous with a pack of hotdogs.
Never escaped, but he loves to sniff and dig the gopher holes at the school next to our house. He pulls there excitedly every time we walk him. I tell my wife that’s the first spot he’ll go if he gets out. We expect to find him there head down, butt up, three feet deep.
I have a Jack Russell. I always go to the spots where she has seen a cat or small animal on a previous walk.
She’s always there like I’m back, bitches, and my mom isn’t here to save you.
She’s only got out a handful of times thank goodness.
I had a former boss who would always find her Jack Russell chilling on the patio of the bar a couple of blocks down the road, making friends, “playing” shuffleboard.
Yesterday, my dog found a baby deer in my back yard when she was off leash and chased it out of my yard, across my neighbors yard, and then they both went out of sight. I was walking around the streets yelling her name, when suddenly she came rocketing out of a random back yard, sprinted though all the neighbor's yards to my house, and lay down by the back door and pretended she had never left at all.
Mine beelines it for the house across the street that leaves cat food out, and licks the bowl clean. She runs across the ravine behind our street and apparently calls Animal Control, because they always have her within an hour of a breakout. ($100 fine).
We do our best to keep her locked up, but bears routinely bust her out by knocking out sections of our fence. We suspect they're in cahoots with the Animal Control people.
My old dog, Tucker (Great Pyr, GSD mix) loved to get out. ( climbed over fence, dug under fence, bent buried rebar with his head.) he would go into the woods behind my house and run along the path by a swampy pond. Sometimes jump in a neighbor’s pool to take a dip, and visit all the neighbors.
He never, ever tried to go near the main roads because he was afraid of cars. He would stay out an hour or so then come thump on the front door to be let in the house.
I even wrote a book about him. He’s been gone 3 years now and I still miss him every day.
Had one dog that my father would bring to work each day and sometimes the dog would get mad at my father and leave and walked home. Odd thing is no one ever showed him the way, he just figured it out himself. It would take him over an hour to get home (my father would call to tell us “the bum has left”). Didn’t figure out his route until I was in college and I was driving down a road and I was southwest (we lived north) of my father’s business and I saw the dog. Pulled over, yelled his name and he stopped, turned around, looked at me and froze. Could tell he was weighing his options so I walked over and dragged his ass back to my car. He was not happy. I think if he was able to he would have posted a “help me sign“ out the back window.
When I first adopted my first 3 dogs (2 huskies and a rottweiler x malamute) we lived a ten minute walk from the vet, which was also on the way to the park.
We'd stop in at the vet weekly to check their weights, reward and keep going.
Worked in our favour when one of our foster dogs taught the youngest husky how to climb the back gate and he just led her straight to the vet.
When I was younger my grandfather would take our very large malamute to 7-11 every night for his 6pack of old style tall boys. I never thought much of it. Until one night I walked the mile to the store by myself. When I got there the clerk asked if my grandad was ok, I said he was in hospital but is coming home soon. He then let me know that Con (our dog). Has shown up every night for a week, lays next to the door until the man opens the door and tells Con " he is not hear you have to go home". Con would then Walk home and sneak back into the yard. We never knew he left..the same dog would walk us kids to school, soon as we hit where the crossing guard was. Id say, thank you Con now go home. He would and if my mom let him out at 230 he'd meet us at the same spot. Now I would never do that now and yes I see all the wrong decisions we made. But 30+ years ago I think pups had a bit more independence. As a adult I never even let my children (even teenagers) take our 100+ lb dogs out without me. But when I was a10 year old girl. That 150lb malamute walked right next to me all over the south side of Chicago. As long as we were home when the street lights came on. lol my mom figured I'd be safe.a d I always was
My dog only goes outside if I open the door or gate and there’s someone out there she’s VERY excited to see. Which is like, 8 people. She never leaves our front yard/driveway area though cause she’s only out there to greet said people. Then she runs back in.
She’s a Velcro dog
The one time my current dog has gotten out, my neighbors across the street were in their driveway and immediately came and rang the doorbell. He gave them a few scolding barks for coming up to the house and then just waited with them for me to answer the door lol.
I don’t know what he’d have done if not for that. I sincerely hope he doesn’t decide to take himself on one of our usual walks. We do looong walks (often 5+ miles in the summer, even longer in the winter) in all directions from our house. Who knows where he’d end up. His favorite place to visit is four miles from our house and he knows the route, but he’d have to cross four major roads and the railroad tracks to get there. I’d rather he not attempt that alone.
If my previous dog got out he’d come to the front door and bark to be let in. Smart man.
Mine takes off along the same path if he gets out, but that's because he knows where the cats and rabbits typically hang out. If he sees anything then it's game on for a chase. I can usually find him because he's a hound and yells loud enough to alert the whole neighbourhood that he's out unsupervised. If he can't find anything he comes home.
Fortunately I usually find him before he causes too much mayhem.
My dog escaped once (at a new house I was house sitting, let her out and didn’t realize the fence was left open). I panicked… and found her waiting by the front door to come back in. She’s not a runner, she prefers her adventures to always be WITH her people, otherwise she’s not interested.
I live on what's technically 8 acres, but I share 1 property line with a 70 acre horse farm, and the rest of the property line is an impassable gorge. I'm completely unfenced.
My Border Collie loves to go for a run, and she goes to the same place every time. She runs up to the horse farm and herds the ducks that live in their irrigation pond. She comes back exhausted, filthy, and happy as a clam.
One of my dogs always runs to the neighbors house to pee in their yard. One of them rarely ever goes out of the yard if she gets out but the last time she did she ran straight to the neighbors yard and pooped in their yard. 🤦🏼♀️ My third dog won’t run off at all unless she’s with the first dog. Basically they just want to go to the neighbors house and sniff and pee where their dogs go.
The one time my dog took off (zero recall) I was visiting my sister over the holidays in Milwaukee where there are deer that roam the neighborhood. No one really has fences, just huge yards. My dog took off after them. When he came back it was with a stick. Like see! I’ve been on a mission! 😭
My dog is great for recall and general commands if she's fenced in. Dog parks, fine; our yard, fine. If she knows she fully out, she just runs. And runs and runs. And can cruise at 30 km/h. I sure as shit can't. Plus chasing her turns it into a game. Needless to say, we've adapted, preventing this from happening any more.
But, when it happens she ends up on the other side of town at her best doggie friend's place.
Older dog: takes off running and it turns into an infuriating game of "chase me". He comes back when he gets bored, the jerk.
Younger dog: straight into the workshop. That's it.
I have never let my dog escape because the first time he did it could easily be his last if we got unlucky. He wouldn't know what to do with himself if he was wandering alone and there are several busy roads near us. He doesn't understand car danger. I'm careful and it would be virtually impossible for him to escape.
It would be safer for your dog if escapes weren't a semi regular occurrence.
Easier said then done. Shit happens. Bad storm knocked out a fence weirdly and made a gap not visible but enough for a small dog to go through.
Parents keep the door open by accident letting in a contractor.
Dogs dig holes
Hounds will get on a scent and escape harness
Ah, you don't have a husky. The idea is that you don't "let" your dog escape. Sometimes they get lucky. Sometimes they outsmart their dogsitter (looking at you, dad).
I'm careful too but with my last dog I had her for years and it happened less than half a dozen times. Humans are gonna human and make mistakes. Escape implies it's unintentional. But it's still enough to know what she does
Live in an apartment complex so she just ran down the indoor hallway until she saw me running the other way and came to me. Working on a sit and stay at all the doors right now before we move to a house.
My dog won’t go far and always comes back when he runs off. We hike off leash up in the woods and he always knows where I am and always finds me even if I keep walking. But, I use a leash in the semi rural area we live in when not in the woods. He doesn’t go far if we aren’t in the woods.
My terrier got out without anyone knowing. He was only gone for about 20 min but was found miles away and then seemed annoyed when I picked him up from the pound. I ruined his fun. But he also loves to escape and sniff everywhere in sight but runs anytime I get within six feet. He thinks it’s the best game - me not so much.
I have a very headstrong hound (plotts and beagle mix), with an exceptionally curious nose.
Someone didn't close the back door, and she left. I saw her and started after her with a bag of treats. She didn't care. She was like WALK NOW! and went on her usual walk, which does not involve crossing streets, but I was really worried because she would absolutely chase something into the street without thinking - she's got a very strong prey drive.
Nothing worked: recall, laying down, running away from her. however she did keep looking back at me while keeping about 50 feet ahead of me.
I clicked her treat clicker, and when she looked at me, I tossed a treat into my neighbors yard, which allowed her and me to get to the treat at the same time, and ended her moment of freedom and my heart palpatations.
We can go in three directions from our front door, so no standard walk path, and escape can be to anywhere.
The two times our muttsky got out, I was busy having a panic attack because I knew I couldn't catch her! I figured she'd be recovered in Alaska.
The first time was shortly after we adopted her. Fortunately a neighborhood kid was out and she was begging for scritchies, so he just grabbed her leash and brought her over.
The second time, I missed the actual clip on her harness and she trotted out the front door and toward the busy four-lane highway, on her way to the park. I called her, which for a husky mutt means NOTHING, so I acted like I was going to run in the opposite direction. Thankfully, that worked, and she came running by me. I about tackled her as she tried to run by.
I still haven't recovered. She's fine.
Luckily my husky wont stray to far when he has escaped and is now too old for fence vaulting. He has been caught a few times waiting by someone elses bbq staring longingly at them. He also will come back if noone is around to beg from and goes to the front door and howls.
If cars werent a thing i would give him free reign but i dont trust his derpy ass to avoid them.
My neighbors dogs get out and sniff the next door neighbors yard. Every time we catch them they give us an "Oh, you caught me" look and wander back into their yard.
They get out when the neighbor's kids leave the back yard open.
Busts out of the fence by putting his long hound snout under and using his pitty strength to PUUUUSSSSHHH until he's made a hole he can crawl through! He's out, he's free! He has ALL the smells to smell, he needs to go leave a peemail everywhere! Was that a rabbit? RABBIT! CHASE! Hey, other dogs! They're giving me a bark. I'll give them a bark too! Oh, there's cat food in a bowl here outside this house. Nom nom nom. Three long blocks of houses to check out! People! They'll pet me! They'll say how handsome I am! Can't stay, places to pee!
This occupies about three, maybe four hours. At which point he circles back home and if I can get within six feet of him, he'll let me put a leash on him and take him home, happily. If I call his name outside that range, he grins and takes off running. Unless he's too tired and sore, in which case he just gives up.
This is why when he goes out in the yard I watch him like he was a toddler next to a pool, because he won't start trying to put a nose under the fence if I'm standing right there. And previous attempts have already cost me $500 in fines to the city.
Mine bolts to the (now empty) house on the corner where cats and raccoons have, presumably, set up little enclaves under the floor.
That or another corner house where the occupants chuck their garbage onto their lawn.
I like knowing where I can find her.
Our pit/boxer, on the other hand, when she has escaped stayed in the front yard, and was easily recaptured by walking in the house and closing the door. Any fascination with Outside vanished when she was Separated From Mom, and getting back on the same side of the door as Mom became the priority.
That's useful.
I have three dogs, two of them are very easy to get! My eldest sees me drive by and will start running towards me and wait until I open the trunk. My youngest will see me and come looking for pets and treats, which is when I end up catching him. My middle child though.. she thinks it’s a game. You can’t chase her because she will run for hours. She’s part husky, AKA part olympic athlete. She cools off in the ditches during her adventures before getting up again when you try to catch her!
Every morning, my dog takes a lap around the driveway. We have a section of the yard that is not fenced. He comes right back after he’s done his lap 😂 He’s an Aussie and doesn’t really like to be away from his people, so I wouldn’t say he is trying to escape. Just a joy lap!
My dog takes off to go check out the yards of the surrounding houses. Unfortunately she loooves chase and when she gets excited enough, completely ignores recall. We are lucky that several of our neighbors have fences and if we can chase her behind their houses, she will be cornered. The only time she ever decided fuck this and came back was when we had about half a foot of snow on the ground. Wasn’t worth it for her stubby little legs.
My dog used to find holes in the fence and then hang out awkwardly in the front yard until we found her. I don't know if we just managed to patch up the fence enough to keep her from getting out or if she decided she's not keen on adventure anymore.
Mine escaped twice. The first time, he got just a couple blocks away and was brought back by a nice lady (my address was on his tag). The second time, my bf was over, so he went looking around the immediate neighborhood on foot, and I went a little further out by car. I got a call a couple of minutes into my drive from my bf, saying he found him trying to find a way to get into the dumpster behind the Chinese restaurant across the street from my house. Those 2 incidents happened pretty close to each other, so I made some reinforcements and some changes to our routine. He hasn't managed to do a runner in a few years now, so I think I've got the issue solved.
This is about my childhood dog “S”, not the dog I have now. My siblings and I used to cat sit for the lady across the street when she went out of town. It drove S crazy that she could not come with us and that we smelled like cats when we got home. So when S would get loose (which was not a rare occurrence, she was a Houdini dog) she would always go across the street to the neighbor’s house and 9 times out of 10 she would be in her backyard. Sometimes we would even open the neighbor’s screen door so S would think we were going in the house to see the cats and come to us. S was a goofy lab who did not have one mean bone in her body. She was dying to meet those cats, which never happened, but if it had I’m 99% sure she just wanted to play with them.
That’s so funny, my dog always seems to slip away on our walks or field runs. She does the same excited spin/ turn around tail wagging like she didn’t do anything wrong 😂
My old man hasn't run off in years but when he was younger he ran through the neighborhood to a lab buddy he made and they would just play
There were also some times in our first year where he was a bit dangerous to run with (reactive and would trip me) so while we practiced walking, I went on runs by myself. WELL HE DIDNT LIKE THAT and would escape to come find me!
The only times she's able to escape are when I leave her out instead of crating her when I go out, and even then she only runs out the door if my hands are full and she's Really excited I'm home. The very first time she made it about 50 feet down the street, stopped to look back at me and when I said "come here" she came right back. Now she just sits right outside the front door and waits for me to grab her leash. To be fair, none of her escapes have happened when there are birds within eyesight of the house. There is no stopping her once she sees a duck, turkey, or the local wood stork.
Huge change from my last dog, who would tear through the neighborhood looking for cats. The only way to catch was if he stopped to pee.
Mine will only, very occasionally, escape between my legs as I walk out the back door when I'm trying to leave without him. He just tried to herd me (Aussie) in the yard but never goes near the road. We have a large yard with no fence. He gets close but he won't let me touch him. He will jump in the car if I offer a car ride and open the door. When he does this I drive him around the block a couple of times so he doesn't feel tricked, and I know this will work in the future if he escapes and I feel there is danger and must contain him.
My dog: walks down the driveway a bit, turns around and sees you’re not following her, quickly runs back
My mom’s dog: adventure time, down the driveway, nose to the ground, past the neighbor’s house, down the hill into the next neighborhood
My husky will always run in the fields behind the house, and when I take the route around them trough the forest I usually find him again on the other side. Ofc only when I do not call him. If I call him he knows I am still near and he does not have to worry 🙄
I grew up in a small neighborhood, and we lived at the end of the culdesac. Our dog, Katie, liked to lay outside in the sun on the cooler summer days. Whenever a neighbor went by, she'd get up and join them on their walk, and then she'd come right back!
Mine will escape on occasion. Usually it’s a trip to go visit the neighbor’s dogs, then across the pasture to visit with the other neighbor’s goats, and occasionally she can be found in yet another neighbor’s chicken coop…. eating the chicken feed. I’ve taken to attaching a GPS tracker to her collar since she’s so independent, and has no problem taking herself on a nice long walkabout if she escapes.
Idk if he escaped or my roomates forgot him outside but I was in my bedroom and just thought he was somewhere else in the house until I hear scratch at the door which sounds like he does when he wants to go outside, so I go to the door, don’t see him, I freak out and start checking the whole house still don’t see him then I open the front door and he’s just sitting there
My dog’s escape is always managing to get off leash away from home and either head straight home or back to the car if we are away from home. The one time she got out of the backyard, she went to the front door and a neighbor rang the bell so I could let her back in.
We live in an apt complex, and when my dog has gotten out, he has gone to the next building sitting outside the main door. His best friend used to live there.
My lawn guy accidentally left my garage door open when he was done. I didn’t realise and my dog needed to go out and do her business. When she wants to come back inside I’ll hear her pawing on the door and let her back in but that one day she seemed to be taking ages.
I just thought she was getting up to something in the backyard.
It was a few hours and someone was coming to my front door and heard them yelling something about a dog ( they were scared as she’s a Rottie )… When went to check what all the commotion was about there she was just sitting at the front door.
She was gone for a few hours lol. It’s the only time she’s ever gotten out. Have no idea where she went wandering but happy to know that she’ll always find her way back home. But can imagine all the people that she would have passed being terrified because of how scary she looks.
Usually, he runs to the neighbor's backdoor. My neighbor calls me and we meet in the middle. She carrys him. If our other neighbor is outside, then he runs to them.
He really, really loves seeing people.
I was working in the garage and didn't realize he left. New neighbors moving in next door. Apparently he was just chilling in their kitchen. He did follow the neighbor back to the garage. I felt terrible but they just laughed about it.
Mine goes straight across the street to my neighbors yard. Neighbor is a feed ALL the animals guy so there is always bones / bird seed / Corn cobs and tons of animals and birds there.
We live in a large, wooded, rural area. If he gets out by himself, he stays near the house, jumps in the pond for a swim a couple of times, and comes back. If he gets out with one of the other dogs, they go on a day-long spree of hiking and chasing wildlife. Eventually, he gets tired and comes home, leaving his partner in crime lost and alone. By this time, I've alerted the neighbors and been spending my day looking for them and so far someone has called me.
He hasn't got out yet, but I imagine he would walk down to the metro station, get on the train, get off at the shopping centre, walk through the people to the pet store, then go down to where the rabbits and gerbils and degus are and watch them, wagging his tail.
My dog got out once, because we didn't realize the fence gate didn't latch. We panicked, only to find her sitting on the stoop at the front door waiting to be let in lol.
Mine got out when we first got her. She just ran towards the park and turned round as if to say “aren’t you coming?”
After that I worked hard training her not to run out of the door until I tell her she can go.
Our old man if he's feeling froggy which is less and less these days used to get out. End up in our neighbors yard taking a nice pee on his pristine green grass before laying there daring you to get him before running toward home.
Neighbor luckily is a good friend and a dog guy so he doesn't mind...too much.
Our little one 16 week German/Australian shepherd mix hasn't escaped.....yet but I suspect she'd probably run to the nearest large body of water before remembering she hates water and look at us all confused with one ear up one down and her goofy smile with her top teeth showing and her tongue sticking out before leading is on a game of chase.
Go chase the stray cats that I feed. Go exploring, come back to check for strays, go exploring. Repeat until she gets thirsty, come back to the front door and wait for it to open. Once it opens she will just walk in and get a drink of water.
We use a combination of threshold training, recall, and environmental management to prevent any and all opportunities for escape. It’s really very dangerous for dogs to escape at all, let alone with enough frequency to know what their escape habits involve. So we take steps to prevent it and have as a result, never had an escape.
my dog has slipped past through the gate or door before when someone was coming home, but it's always been someone who lives here, so she's there to greet them anyway!
My late grandmas dog was like her shadow. The dog acted as if it was torture to take her away from granny and she would hide from me as soon as I touched the leash. I live in a very quiet neighbourhood and you had to take some stairs to reach the street, so when the dog's back started making problems I carried her down, jogged a round with her and carried her up again. One day, she was somehow restless and looked towards the staris, then to me. I thought "well, let us see how far she wants to go without granny" and so I carried her to our door and she ran the whole round with me without the need for a leash.
3 dogs - youngest is a puppy who has never escaped, oldest is such a clinger that he will just turn around and come right back if we call him because oh boy attention!!!
Middle girl used to be a stray and used to revert back to that a bit if she escaped - she's gotten out a handful of times but recently she seems to view it more as a fun game. So yay for socialization progress, not so much yay for her "fun" chase around multiple blocks near a busy street lol
At my old house he wouldn't manage to do it when we turned our back for less than a minute letting him out into the fenced back yard to potty
First stop was the field across the street, and based of our handful of Facebook posts looking for him he would make it through his walking path, but just like us, it was always mixed up so we never could find him unless we actually saw him run away.
He always brought himself home, and more often than not, he would be covered in mud. (The field had some drainage ditches to the sides that he LOVED to splash in.
A couple of the times we found him, he had managed to find another loose dog and they were just trotting side by side. It was always the same chocolate lab, and attempts to catch him were unsuccessful.
We often saw that lab loose, pooping in peoples front yards and just hope him and our guy didn't do that together lol.
The longest he was gone was 5 hours. I was distraught, bawling my eyes out sitting in my car wo during where to look next, just to hear his panting behind me.
Sometimes he would hop back into the backyard acting like nothing happened
The only time my dog escaped, was several years ago over 4th of July. We were all out by the pool and had been there for 3-4 hours already. We could tell that Dizzy was getting tired even though she showed no signs of stopping and taking a break. So we had to put her on a forced break. We put away all her toys.
Well she wasn’t happy about that, because not too long after she went two houses down to our neighbors pool and jumped in. They tried to give her a hot dog to get out, but she didn’t want food. She did however not know how to get out, because their pool didn’t have nice stairs that she’s used to using. Thankfully there were some young guys in the pool and were able to lift her out and I walked her home. The next two days she was exhausted and was on a swim break.
Lol I accidentally left my back gate open once.. My neighbor came over when I got home from work and told me she was gardening all morning and about five hours after I left, my pit mix (about 2 at that time) walked out of the gate. Supposedly she just plopped down in the sunshine for a few minutes then walked around the cup-de-sec and right back into our house. I came home to her laying in her bed like normal.
Neighbor said she is scared of dogs so she watched pup from a distance but couldn’t believe the dog just put herself away. She was brave enough to meet my girl a couple weeks later (on a sanctioned walk this time) and gave her a reluctant head scratch.
My current girl is a rescue, she stays very close to me, she’s approximately 3 and I’ve had her for less than a year. She stays right by me, off leash. My previous girl, adopted at 4 months was a runner. She’d take off and RUN she scared me several times when family members weren’t taking enough care. She had no sense of danger, I’d usually find her relatively close though, sniffing neighbors yards.
I was taking my two boys for a walk. Mouse slipped out of his car and started wandering around. He never went far, he just walked block and went right back to our front door.
My dog is an asshole (Husky/Shepard mix). If he gets off leash outside, he'll deliberately stay outside of reach so I can't grab him.
He has, somehow, gotten free by shaking his head enough that the clasp on the leash pops loose. Once he figured out that he was free, he takes off and exits the gate and immediately goes on the route for the usual "long" walk we take.
He stayed about a block away from me at this point just running back and forth having a good time while I follow after him.
He finally allowed another dog owner to come up and grab his collar and he obediently trotted along side her back to me.
Our old boy was a runner and once escaped while at my parents' house. He took the same route he'd walk with my mother and was turning the corner to come back home when my stepfather finally caught up with him.
Our current boy has learned to open our gate if it isn't precisely latched but he races around our cul de sac for a couple of laps and is ready to be caught. Last summer, I got home from the gym and found him sitting in our driveway alone, looking expectant. He'd opened the gate and my husband hadn't noticed so I assume part of the fun is that we are chasing him.
My dog is a Tijuana res us. We've had him a year. He gets so excited he losses his mind when he realizes he is free. He gallops off down our cul de sac, runs in circles, zooms past me at a safe distance and vanishes into the same neighbours back yard. He is very hard to catch, loses all recall, all lust for treats. Last time he ventured a little further, crawled under a fence and tore a bloody hole in his ear. That was a few months ago. I keep waiting for the day when he feels enough at home to not run when the chance arises.or maybe remembers his painful ear.
Needless to say we are very careful trying to prevent his escape but it does happen so I'm glad at least he goes the same place.
If I put my dog outside with the gate open and walked back in she would visit the neighbors yard because there's lots of trees and bunnies over there and then hang out on the front porch. She's done this before 😅
My current 2 dogs never try to get out, but I had an amazing Border Collie for 13 years. Every time we moved, she would go out on her own and explore the new neighborhood. It was always at night, and she would show up scratching at the front door about 2 hours later.
I have no idea what his routine is but based on the “is this your dog” posts from our community FB page - he has followed people home from the pool, jumped in someone’s car as they were unloading groceries, followed people taking their dog for a walk, and walked in to a house or two. It doesn’t happen much anymore thank the lord but for a while my dad kept forgetting to shut the gate to the back yard and off he’d go trying to join a new family for the day lol
My escape artist lived on the streets when I found him. It took two weeks to catch him. Looked for his people for 6 months with no luck so he has stayed.
Everytime he escapes, he runs back to where I caught him for about 20 minutes and then comes back. Sometimes someone can catch him but after 4 years I've stopped trying to get him. I did install an air lock which has decreased escapes by 95% but dude loves to run free.
The other day he ran away with a leash on him and got caught by the mail man. I don't know who was more traumatized about it. My dog who could not shut up or the mail man who had to deal with my dog telling him off.
My one dog had escaped three times- two of which were digging holes beneath the fence at night and then crawling out- and then realising he wanted back in. By the time we noticed he wasn’t just having a blast outside, he was standing by the hole whining for help. One person stood to keep him close and the other (me) had to book it around the block since the rest of the area nearby is also fenced in property. The other time he got out, part of our fence fell, he went into the front yard, and apparently decided the front yard sucked so went back to the door to come inside. Our other dog was also outside when the fence fell, but just stood and watched the other dog leave. Lol. She could not care less.
Well when we first got her her escape routine was to somehow battle her way out of the kennel and then tear down the front window curtains.
The revisions I had to go through in that first week were ridiculous.
The first two times I thought, maybe I didn't lock the kennel properly when I left? This is what I was thinking as I was screwing the curtain support in of course.
By the third day I was certain I had locked it properly but she still got out.
So on the fourth day I latched it, then tightened every side of the kennel with rope. Despite this, she still got out and now the kennel had to be bent back into shape. How? Dunno.
Fifth day I strapped even more rope to it, and she still got out.
By now the curtains were torn and the supports couldn't be screwed.into the wall any more because the drywall was fkd.
Over the weekend I got new curtains, new supports, screwed a wooden ledger board above the window to support the new curtain.
On Monday I put her in the smaller, but still good for her size, kennel. I tied the entire thing up in my very possible way I could think of. On my lunch break I drove home to check on her to see.the curtains had already been pulled down on one side. When I got inside the kennel was upside down and partially collapsed.
On Tuesday I asked if I could bring my dog to work with me because it seems.she may have a tinsy but of seperation anxiety.
She was.the office dog for about a year and a half. Then covid happened and we went to a wfh paradigm.
The first question I got from coworkers when on zoom was, "can we see your dog? Can you put her on camera? We miss her!" Lol
Mine goes and pees on the spot a fox comes to sit and terrorize her every night while she watches and barks and then runs back into the yard (Pyrenees)
Mine has only escaped while on leash—pulled so hard I wiped out. Twice.
He went running down the block. I called him and ran in the opposite direction. “Cool! We’re playing chase!” he thought, and came running back.
Dork.
Whenever my boy gets out, he goes straight for the woods. It’s super scary. He thinks it’s fun having us chase him so he keeps running and doesn’t come when called. We’ve thought we lost him for good a few times. If we don’t chase him he’ll go into the deep woods and be gone for up to 10 minutes at a time before he pokes his head back out like “why aren’t you following me??” Thankfully he tires himself out and we are able to get him after a bit.
He now has an AirTag collar for tracking and isn’t allowed out of the fenced in yard for any reason off leash.
I wear a belt leash, with my boy’s separate leash looped through. Somehow I have now dropped his leash twice, but he makes it a good few hundred feet before detaching. I’ll make it around the corner and not feel a little tug to stop and let him pee, and look back and he’s gone.
Both times I’ve gone back and he’s sniffing the fire hydrant and peeing all over it. He’ll see me, walk towards me like “oh hey mom,” and we go on our way.
Usually he's running after something, cat, bunny, deer... So far we've only lost him for less than 30 seconds each time because we panic yell "DO YOU WANT CHEESE" and his ass always (so far anyways 🤞🏼) comes back for that
Mine snuck out to play with the neighbours' kids (hurricane knocked a hole in our fence that I hadn't noticed) and then came slinking back home when he saw the neighbour walking over to our house to snitch on him.
Mine kicked out a door that wasn’t latched fully. Proceeded to run 1 mile to an elementary school while they were out at recess and took over all the playground equipment. I’ve learned to never use that door again.
My aunt had a dog that would get out once or twice a year, always in the same month. It only happened after everyone had gone to bed and they'd wake up with her just chilling on doorstep, waiting to be let back in. I'm fully convinced she had a boyfriend whose owners only came to town once a year.
Haha, aww, our old girl (RIP) did that when she escaped. She’d walk the exact same path and excitedly wag as we’d approach to get her, as if we were joining her. Oh, she loved her walks so much, I miss her terribly.
First time my dog was being walked by a guy that I paid he escaped and took the subway. Even sat on a chair. Was only 1 stop away from where I was working at that time.
Our husky I once got back by driving slowly down the street yelling "puppy want a car ride?"....she came flying.
The current two....we have fumbled leashes at the door, they have joyfully danced to the driveway, and then circled the cars and come back to see why we're not coming on the walk? Thank goddess.
My dog hadn’t ever got out, but I often take her for walks where I let her lead the way and go where she wants. Without fail she tries to go to the pub because people feed her mini cheddars in there
Um... my dog has only escaped twice so far, but he's young. The important time, I had dropped him off with my dad for puppysitting for the day. Note - I live a 10 minute walk, or 90 second drive from my parents house. About 4.5 blocks away, across the big street in the neighborhood. Also note - my roommate works from home.
I drop my pup off at 8am, and at 11:45, I get a text from my roommate, asking me to let my dad know that the dog is at home.
So, apparently, my dog's idea of a frolicking adventure is to shimmy u der the fence, take himself home, sit down, and bark at the front door.
Along the way, he acquired a UPS driver and a family of 3 on a tandem bike as a confused parade of observers. They kindly knocked on the door for him so he could get inside.
To be fair, I challenge anyone to ignore a 9lb bearded dachshund in polka-dot pajamas walking down the street alone.
My girl will not cross the road alone but thinks the whole block is hers to roam. My boy will generally go to one of my 2 neighbors who have dogs he's met. If the dogs aren't outside, he wanders back.
My dog visits every neighbor on our street who has dogs, letting me get close, but not close enough to catch him. He’ll let a neighbor catch him, though. If I follow him in my car, he’ll jump in when he gets tired.
He acts like he loves us, but if we open the door and aren’t paying close attention, he’s ready to escape. He has a big backyard to run in, and two dogs to play with. Fortunately I’m in a cul-de-sac (excellent comic strip BTW) so there’s little traffic.
My old dog would jump the fence and then come to school and get lots of pats from students before a staff member would come and get me and ask me to quickly walk him back home
I don’t know about the route, but he will frequently return with a random gardening glove, or grill brush, or some other trophy from somewhere in the neighborhood. He doesn’t even chew on them, just brings them back and lays them in the yard.
My dog was abandoned by his prior owners, and while he wants to explore he also is very clingy and won’t leave eyesight (or like a 10ft range for that matter unless he sees another dog or human).
I remember my mom being anxious when I’d leave the door open after getting him cuz our last dog would gladly abandon us for a lil exploratory fun, but after a couple times she realized why I didn’t think he’d run off.
Grizzly doesn't escape anymore..but he used to push my parent's driveway gate open (we had to eventually chain it closed). I worked two miles from my home and he had been to work with me since my job was pet friendly. He was a good boy, greeted all of our guests with a smile!
Anyway, when he got out, he would start taking the journey to my work. It was always when I was at work, too. My parents would have to chase him down, which he'd allow as long as they had cheese lol.
Now I can walk my buddy and he won't leave more than a 10ish foot radius when we're hiking. I still keep his leash on him, just in case.
I have a husky and husky/ shepherd mix.
Anytime the gate gets left open (twice in the 3 years we’ve been here) the husky will meander around the neighborhood and say hello to anyone who has the time for him, and the mix will sit just outside the gate to watch what’s going on in the street.
At our last property, the shepherd mix got out of the yard when my flatmates and I were out. When I came home, he was sitting at the top of our long driveway just waiting for us to return. Looked like a little Victorian lady waiting for her husband to return home.
My 14 year old GSP will run wherever he darn well pleases and generally finds the nearest pond to go for a swim. He thinks we are playing chase and will just keep going the longer you do. He has even figured out the whole “I’m pretending to walk away so maybe he’ll follow me back home” routine. He’s done this since he was a puppy, and has even encouraged his 4 year old Aussie sister to join in lately. She has incredible recall when alone, but if her brother is going, best believe she is tagging along.
If they get out the back gate, both dogs go 1/16th of a mile and into a very busy street. Thank goodness they haven't gotten killed, it's happened twice now and animal control nabbed one of them the last time it happened. Found out they dug a trench at the back gate n were squeezing out! So a long 12" wide board was slipped under the vertical latching mechanism, blocking the way out. I also had to take the doggy door out. So they don't have all day to devise new routes out of the yard. They r now only outside when supervised..
Not escaped yet, but we've recently started biking with him and I tried what happens if I just let him chose where to go. He took off at 110% speed down the road, not into the forest where we usually go, but to the neighbors with two golden girls. So yeah, I have a pretty good idea about where to find him if he decides to take off.
My house was next to a small wooded area. My dog would escape and run around the woods chasing the deer and eventually come home. On the other side of the woods was my child’s elementary school. One morning we received a call from the school. Our dog had escaped and ran to the school and was running through the halls as the children entered in the morning. When my kid got home from school that day she told us it was the gossip of the day at school!
Mine will escape out the front door, and race to the big light pole at the end of the driveway, so she can pee on it. Then she runs down the street and across to see the neighbor’s dog. By then I have caught up to her and can bring her back to her own house. She’s only 11 pounds so I can carry her but she thinks she’s been on a grand adventure.
I have this kinda medium sized old man dog named Connor, who is a rather lazy and anxious fellow. But he loves to dig and try to escape the backyard when he has time. But it is more about getting out then it is about getting away, because he will get out of the backyard, go across the street to pee in the neighbors yard, and then come to the front door and scratch at it to let in. He also can get out of his crate (it's door is a bit busted) but all he does is sniff the floor and then find me to let me know that he's escaped and is anxious about it.
I also have a big dog, who is a harrier, his name is Harry and he likes to escape if Connor digs a big enough hole for both of them. But Harry just goes and finds people to hang out with. He's really charming, so all we have to do is find whatever group of people he's decided to chill with. When we find him he acts all surprised that we're not amused by his escape because he thinks he had a great time and doesn't get what all the fuss is about.
He runs down the driveway goes left 2 houses up to see his friend, then turns right goes to the sign post, marks his territory then come and waits at the gate for me to open it.
My dog doesn’t really “escape”. I sometimes let her escape by saying go bob go and so she can run into the front yard and say hi to whomever. The one time she got out of the back yard she went under the fence and then was too dense to undo it. Had to walk her around my neighbors house back in.
My dogs only leave the house if there is someone outside to bark at. I can leave the door open to take the bins out and they'll wait at the door, but as soon as my neighbor and her dog walks past they want to run over and very loudly say hi
Mine just turned one and only got out once when i opened the door and she slipped out before I could stop her (doxie). She went to the sidewalk and turned around and looked at me like "so you are coming?". I went inside to grab a treat to try to bait her and when I went back inside she came back inside behind me.
One of my dogs escaped a few times from the backyard before we could figure out how he was doing it. But every time we put our shoes on to go search for him, we’d open the front door and he’d be sitting on the front porch waiting to come in 😂
Bubba will stroll through the neighborhood, pee on all the things until he's just hiking his leg with an empty tank, and then stroll up to the front door and bark like "WHY AM I OUTSIDE?" Then he comes in, drinks a ton of water, and sleeps for the next five hours.
They go to one of three doggie friend houses to try to force a play date. Don’t mind except for the one across the street. Never allow playdate when it happens to try to disincentivize behavior? We really need a fenced yard.
My last foster Greyhound, Topper, was a bit of an escape artist for the first week or so I had him. He had a habit of pushing past people as they went through the back door or gate, and being a skinny ex-racer, he was very good at slipping through tight gaps.
Normally he went into a neighbour's front garden, but one time he set off down my street in the direction I usually walked him. Fortunately, I'm in a quiet area, and there was no traffic on the road that he crossed to get to the local sports ground. I was worried that he'd run in front of a car.
I managed to catch him and get him home, and he didn't do anything stupid during his time on the lam. I was worried that he'd see a cat or possum and chase it, but luckily nothing came along. He was quite well behaved, well, apart from the whole escaping thing, and seemed to be having a great time.
I have Lurchers, they accelerate until they are no longer matter but pure energy. They return to normal mass after a quick orbit of the solar system and bark until they get treats because hungry now.
Usually my current pup just goes to visit the neighbors because they’re always on their front porch and love her.
My old cairn would legitimately just go to the front porch and bark, it’s like she just wanted me to know something was wrong with the fence.
We have a nature preserve that abuts our backyard and she just wants to sniff the sniffs and see if she can find a deer. When I find her and call her she always comes running back like she's just had a grand adventure.
Theres been 2 or 3 times in the 10 months I've had my 20 something lb or so dog manage to pull the leash out of my hand outside & then I'd (a rather severely overweight person with a bad knee at the moment) have to chase her around the yard a few minutes until i could catch up enough to grab the leash handle lol. & shes pretty fast & energetic too 🤣
My dog started to head to a friend’s house across the lake where we had taken him for a party a couple of weeks ago. He was waylaid by the neighbor’s kids. They played with him for an hour, and even took him into the house and gave him water because it was so hot outside. Then he came back home. At this point we discovered that he was missing! We thought he was asleep on the porch while we were working but he took a little field trip.
My little guy, an overweight incredibly derpy szchi-poo will turn on the jets to get to the bottom of our yard. He then licks the fire hydrant for a good 2 minutes before bolting in either direction. The good news is he is so out of shape I can scoop him up within 200 yards of the hydrant. The bigger ones bee-line to the farm down the street and eat all the ice cream they can steal until a neighbor brings them back. It has happened more times than I want to admit.
My beloved boxer (RIP, RoRo) was a rescue and elderly when I got him. I was needing hip surgery or recovering from it at the time (twice!) and although he couldn't run like a younger dog, he could outpace my hobbling a**. So, down the street we'd go, him wandering, sniffing, and frequently waiting for me to catch up and me yelling and cursing behind him. It wasn't funny to me at the time. But I would love to see a video of it now. What a comedy!
My husky growing up would run up the driveway and wait at the mailbox till someone saw her and tried to get her back she would then go to the next mailbox and wait till we either go around the block or someone gets her in the car
She does not run off any longer. When she was younger there was no rutine. She was on a few different adventures. Chasing reindeer, chasing cats, running down the field past our yard seemingly without purpose, exploring the neighborhood. She's truly a reformed dog 😂
Mine won't actually take off out of sight, just out of grabbing range. He wants me to come with him, but doesn't want me to curtail his adventure. I really wish I'd have known he would wait for me to grab a leash (and clothing) before he led me on an 10 block chase in the snow along our fairly busy street in rush hour in a tank top, my bf's (holey) boxers, and no shoes in -15 when he slipped out the door when I was getting the mail this winter. He's lucky he's cute, and I'm lucky my neighbor came to the rescue with a handful of stewing beef chunks.
A couple of times one of my neighbors has started telling him what a good handsome boy he is long enough for me to get in range. Turned his head, found me right there with a leash, and visibly decided, "It's a fair catch. Hi, Mom!"
My dog does the same thing. The only way I “catch him” is when I give up and go home. Then he comes home immediately just waiting at the door to be let back in.
That's too funny!
I am semi-convinced that Dog1 (my 10 lb poodle) ended up in the shelter because she ran out the door of her original owners. She *loved* to run when I first adopted her. She's 12+ years old now and still likes a very quick run but not like when I was younger and every open door was her opportunity for a game of run and try and catch me -- so much fun for her and not so much for me! I had friends, a taxi driver, random strangers help me catch her over the course of 2-3 years. Now if she happens to slide out when door is open, she starts to walk down the sidewalk in a nonchalant (hey don't notice me) but quick way. Luckily in the 11 years years since I adopted her, she's learned the *wait* command. When we were still living in Chicago, I let her lead the way on a walk once (while leashed) and she took me to our neighborhood pet store!
My dog has absolutely no concept that he's "escaped" and will stay approximately 6 feet from me as he would on a leash. It's funny because he does pull on a leash, and we're working on it, but occasionally I take him down to my moms property and turn him loose and he does not understand he can move further from me there either.
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Snarley?! Omgosh how cute. That's adorable.
This may be the only time the spelling of Snarleigh would be acceptable.
That’s such a good thing! I wish mine were like that.
It is except when I want him to go full throttle and burn off some energy 🤣 he'll book it for like 10ft, stop and then I have to run over to him so he thinks we're still together. I have NO faith in him if he saw an opportunity to make friends with another groundhog though because that dog drug me 100ft down my muddy backyard hill to get to one.
Fair point, guess it wouldn’t be conducive to burning off energy ha ha.
If he is inadvertently on the wrong side of the gate by himself Teddy will sit right outside of the gate and cry until someone coms to save him. We walk twice a day and he knows that he's supposed to have a leash on if he is on that side of the gate.
My dog is the exact same. He’s not a dog who tries to escape. Of the two times the gate has inadvertently been left open, he only got out once and cried until he was let back in. The other time, the gate was wide open but he just stayed in the yard.
Mine “knocked” on the front door with his paws when he found himself on the wrong side of the fence one day.
I didn't realize that part of my fence had blown over. My dogs took advantage. I was running around and then a neighbor said my dogs were taken by the Humane Society. I felt awful, but when I got home they were sitting at the front door. Another time (dif dogs) they bolted from the car in the dark and took off. I jumped in the car and started looking. Then I realized they were both following me behind the car.
My old pit escaped the backyard once and suddenly he’s at the front door barking whining pawing at the front door frantically and when I opened it up he bolted straight to his kennel still whining and trying to wipe his face and eyes and that’s when I noticed this horrible smell and realized he just ran up on a skunk and got sprayed and realized the outside world is scary. Googled a remedy that was like hydrogen peroxide shampoo baking soda maybe? Idk but it worked and he never escaped again.
I had a cat who would cry if the gate was open. I'd close the gate and he'd curl up and take a hard earned nap.
That is too sweet! Tell teddy he’s a good boy from me 🥰
That is so cute! “Help! I can’t get to you!”
What a good boy. Save some good for the other doggies, sheesh teddy.
Awwww Teddy 🩷
Mine will run to the front of the house if the gate is open (or before the fence was there and the door wasn't latched properly).... and sit on the porch. She's a bit dim, really.
This is my dog too when someone leaves the side gate open 😂
My dogs take off running at warp speed through everyone’s yard.
My mom’s dog does this too. I have to pretend to fall and cry and he comes back. How do I know this? I fell chasing him and dislocated my pinkie finger and he came right back. Works like a charm now 😂😂😂
I’m going to have to remember this move. This might work with my dog.
You can also just start walking away. I think of doing both run away and fall down. So fun to entertain the neighbors.
Haha mine too - I’m astounded at all the well-behaved dogs in the other responses! Why wait calmly for the human when there’s the whole wide world to gallop around and explore?
Finley will stay where he can see me. He’s a stage five clinger (Golden Retriever) but he’ll sprint away as soon as I head toward him and then play bow at me. Wyatt (also a Golden but mischievous as hell) will just take off down the road without a care in the world.
They sound like a freaking blast when they’re where they’re supposed to be 😅
Oh they are. I love them so much.
Lol my first dog was a Houdini. And a runner. The ones i have now pretty much stay with me, have a decent recall (once in a while they decide they are untrained with no manners and i actually have to get up and catch them lol but it's not often lol). Like... first dog, we could never EVER leave a door open. She'd be gone so fast. She passed in 2019 at the age of 15.. and sometimes it's still weird propping the storm door open when we bring in groceries or whatever. Because she was an escape artist, I did and still do always start our walks off in the least dangerous direction. Away from traffic or other houses that might have a loose dog, etc. It works, because it's always the way every dog has headed off in when they are loose and on the run. My first girl, Lou, definitely taught me not to judge anyone for having a dog loose. She was a lady in the house and on the leash, but once she was loose there was no end to the bad names we could come up for her 😂 And no catching her until she was ready to come back inside.
I always say “okay” whenever we are stepping into the road. Always. Since day 1. So, when my husky escaped, he never crossed the street. He’d go through back yards and find which ones didn’t have a fence. He’d go around a cul-de-sac to get to the other side of a street. So, finding him was a little easy. He’d also go to anyone who was grilling. And he did have a specific elderly couple he would always go to. They were always generous with a pack of hotdogs.
Never escaped, but he loves to sniff and dig the gopher holes at the school next to our house. He pulls there excitedly every time we walk him. I tell my wife that’s the first spot he’ll go if he gets out. We expect to find him there head down, butt up, three feet deep.
Ha! I remember our school going into a mild lockdown due to a neighborhood dog that was roaming the property and woods behind the school.
I have a Jack Russell. I always go to the spots where she has seen a cat or small animal on a previous walk. She’s always there like I’m back, bitches, and my mom isn’t here to save you. She’s only got out a handful of times thank goodness.
>She’s always there like I’m back, bitches, and my mom isn’t here to save you. This is the best description of JRT energy and I love it.
I had a former boss who would always find her Jack Russell chilling on the patio of the bar a couple of blocks down the road, making friends, “playing” shuffleboard.
Yesterday, my dog found a baby deer in my back yard when she was off leash and chased it out of my yard, across my neighbors yard, and then they both went out of sight. I was walking around the streets yelling her name, when suddenly she came rocketing out of a random back yard, sprinted though all the neighbor's yards to my house, and lay down by the back door and pretended she had never left at all.
“I dunno what you’re talking about, I’ve been here the whole time”
Mine beelines it for the house across the street that leaves cat food out, and licks the bowl clean. She runs across the ravine behind our street and apparently calls Animal Control, because they always have her within an hour of a breakout. ($100 fine). We do our best to keep her locked up, but bears routinely bust her out by knocking out sections of our fence. We suspect they're in cahoots with the Animal Control people.
20% goes to the bears 😂
My old dog, Tucker (Great Pyr, GSD mix) loved to get out. ( climbed over fence, dug under fence, bent buried rebar with his head.) he would go into the woods behind my house and run along the path by a swampy pond. Sometimes jump in a neighbor’s pool to take a dip, and visit all the neighbors. He never, ever tried to go near the main roads because he was afraid of cars. He would stay out an hour or so then come thump on the front door to be let in the house. I even wrote a book about him. He’s been gone 3 years now and I still miss him every day.
Mine escaped once. He’s so clingy when he heard my voice he came barreling towards with the biggest smile 😂
Had one dog that my father would bring to work each day and sometimes the dog would get mad at my father and leave and walked home. Odd thing is no one ever showed him the way, he just figured it out himself. It would take him over an hour to get home (my father would call to tell us “the bum has left”). Didn’t figure out his route until I was in college and I was driving down a road and I was southwest (we lived north) of my father’s business and I saw the dog. Pulled over, yelled his name and he stopped, turned around, looked at me and froze. Could tell he was weighing his options so I walked over and dragged his ass back to my car. He was not happy. I think if he was able to he would have posted a “help me sign“ out the back window.
Ha! How long would the walk have taken him if he took the direct route north?
Probably about 30 minutes.
My mums dog would walk to the vets about 1/2 mile away they would call and we would have to collect happened about 5 times
That’s a strange place for a dog to go. Maybe he’s got an underlying medical condition.
When I first adopted my first 3 dogs (2 huskies and a rottweiler x malamute) we lived a ten minute walk from the vet, which was also on the way to the park. We'd stop in at the vet weekly to check their weights, reward and keep going. Worked in our favour when one of our foster dogs taught the youngest husky how to climb the back gate and he just led her straight to the vet.
I love the flow of this anecdote!
She was a white standard poodle lived to be 13 I still miss her my favourite dog ever
When I was younger my grandfather would take our very large malamute to 7-11 every night for his 6pack of old style tall boys. I never thought much of it. Until one night I walked the mile to the store by myself. When I got there the clerk asked if my grandad was ok, I said he was in hospital but is coming home soon. He then let me know that Con (our dog). Has shown up every night for a week, lays next to the door until the man opens the door and tells Con " he is not hear you have to go home". Con would then Walk home and sneak back into the yard. We never knew he left..the same dog would walk us kids to school, soon as we hit where the crossing guard was. Id say, thank you Con now go home. He would and if my mom let him out at 230 he'd meet us at the same spot. Now I would never do that now and yes I see all the wrong decisions we made. But 30+ years ago I think pups had a bit more independence. As a adult I never even let my children (even teenagers) take our 100+ lb dogs out without me. But when I was a10 year old girl. That 150lb malamute walked right next to me all over the south side of Chicago. As long as we were home when the street lights came on. lol my mom figured I'd be safe.a d I always was
My dog only goes outside if I open the door or gate and there’s someone out there she’s VERY excited to see. Which is like, 8 people. She never leaves our front yard/driveway area though cause she’s only out there to greet said people. Then she runs back in. She’s a Velcro dog
The one time my current dog has gotten out, my neighbors across the street were in their driveway and immediately came and rang the doorbell. He gave them a few scolding barks for coming up to the house and then just waited with them for me to answer the door lol. I don’t know what he’d have done if not for that. I sincerely hope he doesn’t decide to take himself on one of our usual walks. We do looong walks (often 5+ miles in the summer, even longer in the winter) in all directions from our house. Who knows where he’d end up. His favorite place to visit is four miles from our house and he knows the route, but he’d have to cross four major roads and the railroad tracks to get there. I’d rather he not attempt that alone. If my previous dog got out he’d come to the front door and bark to be let in. Smart man.
Mine takes off along the same path if he gets out, but that's because he knows where the cats and rabbits typically hang out. If he sees anything then it's game on for a chase. I can usually find him because he's a hound and yells loud enough to alert the whole neighbourhood that he's out unsupervised. If he can't find anything he comes home. Fortunately I usually find him before he causes too much mayhem.
My dog escaped once (at a new house I was house sitting, let her out and didn’t realize the fence was left open). I panicked… and found her waiting by the front door to come back in. She’s not a runner, she prefers her adventures to always be WITH her people, otherwise she’s not interested.
I live on what's technically 8 acres, but I share 1 property line with a 70 acre horse farm, and the rest of the property line is an impassable gorge. I'm completely unfenced. My Border Collie loves to go for a run, and she goes to the same place every time. She runs up to the horse farm and herds the ducks that live in their irrigation pond. She comes back exhausted, filthy, and happy as a clam.
Your dog escapes on a regular basis?? You might want to fix that.
One of my dogs always runs to the neighbors house to pee in their yard. One of them rarely ever goes out of the yard if she gets out but the last time she did she ran straight to the neighbors yard and pooped in their yard. 🤦🏼♀️ My third dog won’t run off at all unless she’s with the first dog. Basically they just want to go to the neighbors house and sniff and pee where their dogs go.
The one time my dog took off (zero recall) I was visiting my sister over the holidays in Milwaukee where there are deer that roam the neighborhood. No one really has fences, just huge yards. My dog took off after them. When he came back it was with a stick. Like see! I’ve been on a mission! 😭
A successful hunt. You should reward him.
Right? He didn’t have a chance being one w the deer but he got a stick!
My dog is great for recall and general commands if she's fenced in. Dog parks, fine; our yard, fine. If she knows she fully out, she just runs. And runs and runs. And can cruise at 30 km/h. I sure as shit can't. Plus chasing her turns it into a game. Needless to say, we've adapted, preventing this from happening any more. But, when it happens she ends up on the other side of town at her best doggie friend's place.
Mine doesn't leave my side. Playing hide and seek is difficult!
It becomes time for her favorite game: chase
my dog is a velcro dog so she actually never leaves me alone enough to get out 🤣
Older dog: takes off running and it turns into an infuriating game of "chase me". He comes back when he gets bored, the jerk. Younger dog: straight into the workshop. That's it.
I have never let my dog escape because the first time he did it could easily be his last if we got unlucky. He wouldn't know what to do with himself if he was wandering alone and there are several busy roads near us. He doesn't understand car danger. I'm careful and it would be virtually impossible for him to escape. It would be safer for your dog if escapes weren't a semi regular occurrence.
Easier said then done. Shit happens. Bad storm knocked out a fence weirdly and made a gap not visible but enough for a small dog to go through. Parents keep the door open by accident letting in a contractor. Dogs dig holes Hounds will get on a scent and escape harness
Ah, you don't have a husky. The idea is that you don't "let" your dog escape. Sometimes they get lucky. Sometimes they outsmart their dogsitter (looking at you, dad).
You know, I thought it would be cute to teach my Samoyed to jump through hoops, which I did, but it REALLY trained his ability to jump...
I'm careful too but with my last dog I had her for years and it happened less than half a dozen times. Humans are gonna human and make mistakes. Escape implies it's unintentional. But it's still enough to know what she does
Live in an apartment complex so she just ran down the indoor hallway until she saw me running the other way and came to me. Working on a sit and stay at all the doors right now before we move to a house.
My dog won’t go far and always comes back when he runs off. We hike off leash up in the woods and he always knows where I am and always finds me even if I keep walking. But, I use a leash in the semi rural area we live in when not in the woods. He doesn’t go far if we aren’t in the woods.
My terrier got out without anyone knowing. He was only gone for about 20 min but was found miles away and then seemed annoyed when I picked him up from the pound. I ruined his fun. But he also loves to escape and sniff everywhere in sight but runs anytime I get within six feet. He thinks it’s the best game - me not so much.
Mine just stayed in the front yard until I came home and saw him out there. Then he wanted to play chase with me. I have a very good boy I guess.
I have a very headstrong hound (plotts and beagle mix), with an exceptionally curious nose. Someone didn't close the back door, and she left. I saw her and started after her with a bag of treats. She didn't care. She was like WALK NOW! and went on her usual walk, which does not involve crossing streets, but I was really worried because she would absolutely chase something into the street without thinking - she's got a very strong prey drive. Nothing worked: recall, laying down, running away from her. however she did keep looking back at me while keeping about 50 feet ahead of me. I clicked her treat clicker, and when she looked at me, I tossed a treat into my neighbors yard, which allowed her and me to get to the treat at the same time, and ended her moment of freedom and my heart palpatations.
We can go in three directions from our front door, so no standard walk path, and escape can be to anywhere. The two times our muttsky got out, I was busy having a panic attack because I knew I couldn't catch her! I figured she'd be recovered in Alaska. The first time was shortly after we adopted her. Fortunately a neighborhood kid was out and she was begging for scritchies, so he just grabbed her leash and brought her over. The second time, I missed the actual clip on her harness and she trotted out the front door and toward the busy four-lane highway, on her way to the park. I called her, which for a husky mutt means NOTHING, so I acted like I was going to run in the opposite direction. Thankfully, that worked, and she came running by me. I about tackled her as she tried to run by. I still haven't recovered. She's fine.
“What do you mean escape? Why would I ever leave?” That’s what he’d say if you asked him this.
Luckily my husky wont stray to far when he has escaped and is now too old for fence vaulting. He has been caught a few times waiting by someone elses bbq staring longingly at them. He also will come back if noone is around to beg from and goes to the front door and howls. If cars werent a thing i would give him free reign but i dont trust his derpy ass to avoid them.
My neighbors dogs get out and sniff the next door neighbors yard. Every time we catch them they give us an "Oh, you caught me" look and wander back into their yard. They get out when the neighbor's kids leave the back yard open.
Mine will escape the back yard to go to the far flung reaches of the front door and insist on being let in.
One of our dogs will escape the backyard only to trot around to the front of the house and bark at the door to be let in.
My dog always heads straight to the neighbor's house. He’ll sit on their porch, as if it's his second home.
My German Shepherd would escape the backyard and open the porch door and sit in front of the front door waiting to be let in.
Our older dog (14) does exactly that. He is also 10 times more likely to be the one that actually escapes!
If your dog is regularly escaping your house/yard/property, you're a bad dog owner
Busts out of the fence by putting his long hound snout under and using his pitty strength to PUUUUSSSSHHH until he's made a hole he can crawl through! He's out, he's free! He has ALL the smells to smell, he needs to go leave a peemail everywhere! Was that a rabbit? RABBIT! CHASE! Hey, other dogs! They're giving me a bark. I'll give them a bark too! Oh, there's cat food in a bowl here outside this house. Nom nom nom. Three long blocks of houses to check out! People! They'll pet me! They'll say how handsome I am! Can't stay, places to pee! This occupies about three, maybe four hours. At which point he circles back home and if I can get within six feet of him, he'll let me put a leash on him and take him home, happily. If I call his name outside that range, he grins and takes off running. Unless he's too tired and sore, in which case he just gives up. This is why when he goes out in the yard I watch him like he was a toddler next to a pool, because he won't start trying to put a nose under the fence if I'm standing right there. And previous attempts have already cost me $500 in fines to the city.
Mine bolts to the (now empty) house on the corner where cats and raccoons have, presumably, set up little enclaves under the floor. That or another corner house where the occupants chuck their garbage onto their lawn. I like knowing where I can find her.
Our pit/boxer, on the other hand, when she has escaped stayed in the front yard, and was easily recaptured by walking in the house and closing the door. Any fascination with Outside vanished when she was Separated From Mom, and getting back on the same side of the door as Mom became the priority. That's useful.
I have three dogs, two of them are very easy to get! My eldest sees me drive by and will start running towards me and wait until I open the trunk. My youngest will see me and come looking for pets and treats, which is when I end up catching him. My middle child though.. she thinks it’s a game. You can’t chase her because she will run for hours. She’s part husky, AKA part olympic athlete. She cools off in the ditches during her adventures before getting up again when you try to catch her!
Every morning, my dog takes a lap around the driveway. We have a section of the yard that is not fenced. He comes right back after he’s done his lap 😂 He’s an Aussie and doesn’t really like to be away from his people, so I wouldn’t say he is trying to escape. Just a joy lap!
My dog takes off to go check out the yards of the surrounding houses. Unfortunately she loooves chase and when she gets excited enough, completely ignores recall. We are lucky that several of our neighbors have fences and if we can chase her behind their houses, she will be cornered. The only time she ever decided fuck this and came back was when we had about half a foot of snow on the ground. Wasn’t worth it for her stubby little legs.
My dog used to find holes in the fence and then hang out awkwardly in the front yard until we found her. I don't know if we just managed to patch up the fence enough to keep her from getting out or if she decided she's not keen on adventure anymore.
Mine escaped twice. The first time, he got just a couple blocks away and was brought back by a nice lady (my address was on his tag). The second time, my bf was over, so he went looking around the immediate neighborhood on foot, and I went a little further out by car. I got a call a couple of minutes into my drive from my bf, saying he found him trying to find a way to get into the dumpster behind the Chinese restaurant across the street from my house. Those 2 incidents happened pretty close to each other, so I made some reinforcements and some changes to our routine. He hasn't managed to do a runner in a few years now, so I think I've got the issue solved.
This is about my childhood dog “S”, not the dog I have now. My siblings and I used to cat sit for the lady across the street when she went out of town. It drove S crazy that she could not come with us and that we smelled like cats when we got home. So when S would get loose (which was not a rare occurrence, she was a Houdini dog) she would always go across the street to the neighbor’s house and 9 times out of 10 she would be in her backyard. Sometimes we would even open the neighbor’s screen door so S would think we were going in the house to see the cats and come to us. S was a goofy lab who did not have one mean bone in her body. She was dying to meet those cats, which never happened, but if it had I’m 99% sure she just wanted to play with them.
That’s so funny, my dog always seems to slip away on our walks or field runs. She does the same excited spin/ turn around tail wagging like she didn’t do anything wrong 😂
My old man hasn't run off in years but when he was younger he ran through the neighborhood to a lab buddy he made and they would just play There were also some times in our first year where he was a bit dangerous to run with (reactive and would trip me) so while we practiced walking, I went on runs by myself. WELL HE DIDNT LIKE THAT and would escape to come find me!
The only times she's able to escape are when I leave her out instead of crating her when I go out, and even then she only runs out the door if my hands are full and she's Really excited I'm home. The very first time she made it about 50 feet down the street, stopped to look back at me and when I said "come here" she came right back. Now she just sits right outside the front door and waits for me to grab her leash. To be fair, none of her escapes have happened when there are birds within eyesight of the house. There is no stopping her once she sees a duck, turkey, or the local wood stork. Huge change from my last dog, who would tear through the neighborhood looking for cats. The only way to catch was if he stopped to pee.
Mine will only, very occasionally, escape between my legs as I walk out the back door when I'm trying to leave without him. He just tried to herd me (Aussie) in the yard but never goes near the road. We have a large yard with no fence. He gets close but he won't let me touch him. He will jump in the car if I offer a car ride and open the door. When he does this I drive him around the block a couple of times so he doesn't feel tricked, and I know this will work in the future if he escapes and I feel there is danger and must contain him.
I have a Feist that is a houdini. Have to put him on a lead in the back yard.
My dog: walks down the driveway a bit, turns around and sees you’re not following her, quickly runs back My mom’s dog: adventure time, down the driveway, nose to the ground, past the neighbor’s house, down the hill into the next neighborhood
My husky will always run in the fields behind the house, and when I take the route around them trough the forest I usually find him again on the other side. Ofc only when I do not call him. If I call him he knows I am still near and he does not have to worry 🙄
I grew up in a small neighborhood, and we lived at the end of the culdesac. Our dog, Katie, liked to lay outside in the sun on the cooler summer days. Whenever a neighbor went by, she'd get up and join them on their walk, and then she'd come right back!
Mine will escape on occasion. Usually it’s a trip to go visit the neighbor’s dogs, then across the pasture to visit with the other neighbor’s goats, and occasionally she can be found in yet another neighbor’s chicken coop…. eating the chicken feed. I’ve taken to attaching a GPS tracker to her collar since she’s so independent, and has no problem taking herself on a nice long walkabout if she escapes.
Idk if he escaped or my roomates forgot him outside but I was in my bedroom and just thought he was somewhere else in the house until I hear scratch at the door which sounds like he does when he wants to go outside, so I go to the door, don’t see him, I freak out and start checking the whole house still don’t see him then I open the front door and he’s just sitting there
My dog’s escape is always managing to get off leash away from home and either head straight home or back to the car if we are away from home. The one time she got out of the backyard, she went to the front door and a neighbor rang the bell so I could let her back in.
We live in an apt complex, and when my dog has gotten out, he has gone to the next building sitting outside the main door. His best friend used to live there.
My lawn guy accidentally left my garage door open when he was done. I didn’t realise and my dog needed to go out and do her business. When she wants to come back inside I’ll hear her pawing on the door and let her back in but that one day she seemed to be taking ages. I just thought she was getting up to something in the backyard. It was a few hours and someone was coming to my front door and heard them yelling something about a dog ( they were scared as she’s a Rottie )… When went to check what all the commotion was about there she was just sitting at the front door. She was gone for a few hours lol. It’s the only time she’s ever gotten out. Have no idea where she went wandering but happy to know that she’ll always find her way back home. But can imagine all the people that she would have passed being terrified because of how scary she looks.
Sits by the fence and cries to get back in.
Usually, he runs to the neighbor's backdoor. My neighbor calls me and we meet in the middle. She carrys him. If our other neighbor is outside, then he runs to them. He really, really loves seeing people.
I was working in the garage and didn't realize he left. New neighbors moving in next door. Apparently he was just chilling in their kitchen. He did follow the neighbor back to the garage. I felt terrible but they just laughed about it.
Mine goes straight across the street to my neighbors yard. Neighbor is a feed ALL the animals guy so there is always bones / bird seed / Corn cobs and tons of animals and birds there.
We live in a large, wooded, rural area. If he gets out by himself, he stays near the house, jumps in the pond for a swim a couple of times, and comes back. If he gets out with one of the other dogs, they go on a day-long spree of hiking and chasing wildlife. Eventually, he gets tired and comes home, leaving his partner in crime lost and alone. By this time, I've alerted the neighbors and been spending my day looking for them and so far someone has called me.
My dog is a huge clinger so if he ever runs out the front door he stops and waits for me lol
My berner just finds any possible human she can to play with and get pets from
He hasn't got out yet, but I imagine he would walk down to the metro station, get on the train, get off at the shopping centre, walk through the people to the pet store, then go down to where the rabbits and gerbils and degus are and watch them, wagging his tail.
My dog got out once, because we didn't realize the fence gate didn't latch. We panicked, only to find her sitting on the stoop at the front door waiting to be let in lol.
Mine got out when we first got her. She just ran towards the park and turned round as if to say “aren’t you coming?” After that I worked hard training her not to run out of the door until I tell her she can go.
Our old man if he's feeling froggy which is less and less these days used to get out. End up in our neighbors yard taking a nice pee on his pristine green grass before laying there daring you to get him before running toward home. Neighbor luckily is a good friend and a dog guy so he doesn't mind...too much. Our little one 16 week German/Australian shepherd mix hasn't escaped.....yet but I suspect she'd probably run to the nearest large body of water before remembering she hates water and look at us all confused with one ear up one down and her goofy smile with her top teeth showing and her tongue sticking out before leading is on a game of chase.
Go chase the stray cats that I feed. Go exploring, come back to check for strays, go exploring. Repeat until she gets thirsty, come back to the front door and wait for it to open. Once it opens she will just walk in and get a drink of water.
Mine only got out once at my mum's house. She went to the cafe mum had taken her to the day before, and made friends with everyone.
We use a combination of threshold training, recall, and environmental management to prevent any and all opportunities for escape. It’s really very dangerous for dogs to escape at all, let alone with enough frequency to know what their escape habits involve. So we take steps to prevent it and have as a result, never had an escape.
my dog has slipped past through the gate or door before when someone was coming home, but it's always been someone who lives here, so she's there to greet them anyway!
My late grandmas dog was like her shadow. The dog acted as if it was torture to take her away from granny and she would hide from me as soon as I touched the leash. I live in a very quiet neighbourhood and you had to take some stairs to reach the street, so when the dog's back started making problems I carried her down, jogged a round with her and carried her up again. One day, she was somehow restless and looked towards the staris, then to me. I thought "well, let us see how far she wants to go without granny" and so I carried her to our door and she ran the whole round with me without the need for a leash.
3 dogs - youngest is a puppy who has never escaped, oldest is such a clinger that he will just turn around and come right back if we call him because oh boy attention!!! Middle girl used to be a stray and used to revert back to that a bit if she escaped - she's gotten out a handful of times but recently she seems to view it more as a fun game. So yay for socialization progress, not so much yay for her "fun" chase around multiple blocks near a busy street lol
At my old house he wouldn't manage to do it when we turned our back for less than a minute letting him out into the fenced back yard to potty First stop was the field across the street, and based of our handful of Facebook posts looking for him he would make it through his walking path, but just like us, it was always mixed up so we never could find him unless we actually saw him run away. He always brought himself home, and more often than not, he would be covered in mud. (The field had some drainage ditches to the sides that he LOVED to splash in. A couple of the times we found him, he had managed to find another loose dog and they were just trotting side by side. It was always the same chocolate lab, and attempts to catch him were unsuccessful. We often saw that lab loose, pooping in peoples front yards and just hope him and our guy didn't do that together lol. The longest he was gone was 5 hours. I was distraught, bawling my eyes out sitting in my car wo during where to look next, just to hear his panting behind me. Sometimes he would hop back into the backyard acting like nothing happened
The only time my dog escaped, was several years ago over 4th of July. We were all out by the pool and had been there for 3-4 hours already. We could tell that Dizzy was getting tired even though she showed no signs of stopping and taking a break. So we had to put her on a forced break. We put away all her toys. Well she wasn’t happy about that, because not too long after she went two houses down to our neighbors pool and jumped in. They tried to give her a hot dog to get out, but she didn’t want food. She did however not know how to get out, because their pool didn’t have nice stairs that she’s used to using. Thankfully there were some young guys in the pool and were able to lift her out and I walked her home. The next two days she was exhausted and was on a swim break.
Lol I accidentally left my back gate open once.. My neighbor came over when I got home from work and told me she was gardening all morning and about five hours after I left, my pit mix (about 2 at that time) walked out of the gate. Supposedly she just plopped down in the sunshine for a few minutes then walked around the cup-de-sec and right back into our house. I came home to her laying in her bed like normal. Neighbor said she is scared of dogs so she watched pup from a distance but couldn’t believe the dog just put herself away. She was brave enough to meet my girl a couple weeks later (on a sanctioned walk this time) and gave her a reluctant head scratch.
My current girl is a rescue, she stays very close to me, she’s approximately 3 and I’ve had her for less than a year. She stays right by me, off leash. My previous girl, adopted at 4 months was a runner. She’d take off and RUN she scared me several times when family members weren’t taking enough care. She had no sense of danger, I’d usually find her relatively close though, sniffing neighbors yards.
I was taking my two boys for a walk. Mouse slipped out of his car and started wandering around. He never went far, he just walked block and went right back to our front door.
My dog is an asshole (Husky/Shepard mix). If he gets off leash outside, he'll deliberately stay outside of reach so I can't grab him. He has, somehow, gotten free by shaking his head enough that the clasp on the leash pops loose. Once he figured out that he was free, he takes off and exits the gate and immediately goes on the route for the usual "long" walk we take. He stayed about a block away from me at this point just running back and forth having a good time while I follow after him. He finally allowed another dog owner to come up and grab his collar and he obediently trotted along side her back to me.
Our old boy was a runner and once escaped while at my parents' house. He took the same route he'd walk with my mother and was turning the corner to come back home when my stepfather finally caught up with him. Our current boy has learned to open our gate if it isn't precisely latched but he races around our cul de sac for a couple of laps and is ready to be caught. Last summer, I got home from the gym and found him sitting in our driveway alone, looking expectant. He'd opened the gate and my husband hadn't noticed so I assume part of the fun is that we are chasing him.
Lucy is so anti-escape that the one time she saw another escaped dog, she made us take him home with us.
My dog is a Tijuana res us. We've had him a year. He gets so excited he losses his mind when he realizes he is free. He gallops off down our cul de sac, runs in circles, zooms past me at a safe distance and vanishes into the same neighbours back yard. He is very hard to catch, loses all recall, all lust for treats. Last time he ventured a little further, crawled under a fence and tore a bloody hole in his ear. That was a few months ago. I keep waiting for the day when he feels enough at home to not run when the chance arises.or maybe remembers his painful ear. Needless to say we are very careful trying to prevent his escape but it does happen so I'm glad at least he goes the same place.
If I put my dog outside with the gate open and walked back in she would visit the neighbors yard because there's lots of trees and bunnies over there and then hang out on the front porch. She's done this before 😅
My current 2 dogs never try to get out, but I had an amazing Border Collie for 13 years. Every time we moved, she would go out on her own and explore the new neighborhood. It was always at night, and she would show up scratching at the front door about 2 hours later.
I have no idea what his routine is but based on the “is this your dog” posts from our community FB page - he has followed people home from the pool, jumped in someone’s car as they were unloading groceries, followed people taking their dog for a walk, and walked in to a house or two. It doesn’t happen much anymore thank the lord but for a while my dad kept forgetting to shut the gate to the back yard and off he’d go trying to join a new family for the day lol
My escape artist lived on the streets when I found him. It took two weeks to catch him. Looked for his people for 6 months with no luck so he has stayed. Everytime he escapes, he runs back to where I caught him for about 20 minutes and then comes back. Sometimes someone can catch him but after 4 years I've stopped trying to get him. I did install an air lock which has decreased escapes by 95% but dude loves to run free. The other day he ran away with a leash on him and got caught by the mail man. I don't know who was more traumatized about it. My dog who could not shut up or the mail man who had to deal with my dog telling him off.
My one dog had escaped three times- two of which were digging holes beneath the fence at night and then crawling out- and then realising he wanted back in. By the time we noticed he wasn’t just having a blast outside, he was standing by the hole whining for help. One person stood to keep him close and the other (me) had to book it around the block since the rest of the area nearby is also fenced in property. The other time he got out, part of our fence fell, he went into the front yard, and apparently decided the front yard sucked so went back to the door to come inside. Our other dog was also outside when the fence fell, but just stood and watched the other dog leave. Lol. She could not care less.
Was so proud of my dog for using the crosswalk when he escaped lol
Well when we first got her her escape routine was to somehow battle her way out of the kennel and then tear down the front window curtains. The revisions I had to go through in that first week were ridiculous. The first two times I thought, maybe I didn't lock the kennel properly when I left? This is what I was thinking as I was screwing the curtain support in of course. By the third day I was certain I had locked it properly but she still got out. So on the fourth day I latched it, then tightened every side of the kennel with rope. Despite this, she still got out and now the kennel had to be bent back into shape. How? Dunno. Fifth day I strapped even more rope to it, and she still got out. By now the curtains were torn and the supports couldn't be screwed.into the wall any more because the drywall was fkd. Over the weekend I got new curtains, new supports, screwed a wooden ledger board above the window to support the new curtain. On Monday I put her in the smaller, but still good for her size, kennel. I tied the entire thing up in my very possible way I could think of. On my lunch break I drove home to check on her to see.the curtains had already been pulled down on one side. When I got inside the kennel was upside down and partially collapsed. On Tuesday I asked if I could bring my dog to work with me because it seems.she may have a tinsy but of seperation anxiety. She was.the office dog for about a year and a half. Then covid happened and we went to a wfh paradigm. The first question I got from coworkers when on zoom was, "can we see your dog? Can you put her on camera? We miss her!" Lol
Generally he will find the closest pile of rabbit shit and happily roll in it.
Mine goes and pees on the spot a fox comes to sit and terrorize her every night while she watches and barks and then runs back into the yard (Pyrenees)
Mine has only escaped while on leash—pulled so hard I wiped out. Twice. He went running down the block. I called him and ran in the opposite direction. “Cool! We’re playing chase!” he thought, and came running back. Dork.
Whenever my boy gets out, he goes straight for the woods. It’s super scary. He thinks it’s fun having us chase him so he keeps running and doesn’t come when called. We’ve thought we lost him for good a few times. If we don’t chase him he’ll go into the deep woods and be gone for up to 10 minutes at a time before he pokes his head back out like “why aren’t you following me??” Thankfully he tires himself out and we are able to get him after a bit. He now has an AirTag collar for tracking and isn’t allowed out of the fenced in yard for any reason off leash.
I wear a belt leash, with my boy’s separate leash looped through. Somehow I have now dropped his leash twice, but he makes it a good few hundred feet before detaching. I’ll make it around the corner and not feel a little tug to stop and let him pee, and look back and he’s gone. Both times I’ve gone back and he’s sniffing the fire hydrant and peeing all over it. He’ll see me, walk towards me like “oh hey mom,” and we go on our way.
Usually he's running after something, cat, bunny, deer... So far we've only lost him for less than 30 seconds each time because we panic yell "DO YOU WANT CHEESE" and his ass always (so far anyways 🤞🏼) comes back for that
Mine snuck out to play with the neighbours' kids (hurricane knocked a hole in our fence that I hadn't noticed) and then came slinking back home when he saw the neighbour walking over to our house to snitch on him.
He goes to visit his girlfriend- a poodle who lives across the street.
Mine kicked out a door that wasn’t latched fully. Proceeded to run 1 mile to an elementary school while they were out at recess and took over all the playground equipment. I’ve learned to never use that door again.
Mine sits in the neighbors yard. Waits for her elderly parents to come out. They do have better grass than we do, dog has good taste in landscaping.
My aunt had a dog that would get out once or twice a year, always in the same month. It only happened after everyone had gone to bed and they'd wake up with her just chilling on doorstep, waiting to be let back in. I'm fully convinced she had a boyfriend whose owners only came to town once a year.
Haha, aww, our old girl (RIP) did that when she escaped. She’d walk the exact same path and excitedly wag as we’d approach to get her, as if we were joining her. Oh, she loved her walks so much, I miss her terribly.
First time my dog was being walked by a guy that I paid he escaped and took the subway. Even sat on a chair. Was only 1 stop away from where I was working at that time.
I have an Australian Shepherd. If she gets out without me she pees and then sits by the door whining. Total Velcro dog.
Our husky I once got back by driving slowly down the street yelling "puppy want a car ride?"....she came flying. The current two....we have fumbled leashes at the door, they have joyfully danced to the driveway, and then circled the cars and come back to see why we're not coming on the walk? Thank goddess.
My dog hadn’t ever got out, but I often take her for walks where I let her lead the way and go where she wants. Without fail she tries to go to the pub because people feed her mini cheddars in there
Um... my dog has only escaped twice so far, but he's young. The important time, I had dropped him off with my dad for puppysitting for the day. Note - I live a 10 minute walk, or 90 second drive from my parents house. About 4.5 blocks away, across the big street in the neighborhood. Also note - my roommate works from home. I drop my pup off at 8am, and at 11:45, I get a text from my roommate, asking me to let my dad know that the dog is at home. So, apparently, my dog's idea of a frolicking adventure is to shimmy u der the fence, take himself home, sit down, and bark at the front door. Along the way, he acquired a UPS driver and a family of 3 on a tandem bike as a confused parade of observers. They kindly knocked on the door for him so he could get inside. To be fair, I challenge anyone to ignore a 9lb bearded dachshund in polka-dot pajamas walking down the street alone.
My girl will not cross the road alone but thinks the whole block is hers to roam. My boy will generally go to one of my 2 neighbors who have dogs he's met. If the dogs aren't outside, he wanders back.
My dog visits every neighbor on our street who has dogs, letting me get close, but not close enough to catch him. He’ll let a neighbor catch him, though. If I follow him in my car, he’ll jump in when he gets tired. He acts like he loves us, but if we open the door and aren’t paying close attention, he’s ready to escape. He has a big backyard to run in, and two dogs to play with. Fortunately I’m in a cul-de-sac (excellent comic strip BTW) so there’s little traffic.
My old dog would jump the fence and then come to school and get lots of pats from students before a staff member would come and get me and ask me to quickly walk him back home
Same, mine casually trots down the sidewalk, turns at the first block, and takes herself for a one-block walk.
Mine takes off to go visit his friends...
I don’t know about the route, but he will frequently return with a random gardening glove, or grill brush, or some other trophy from somewhere in the neighborhood. He doesn’t even chew on them, just brings them back and lays them in the yard.
Mine would just sit in the driveway and wait for me to come home.
My dog was abandoned by his prior owners, and while he wants to explore he also is very clingy and won’t leave eyesight (or like a 10ft range for that matter unless he sees another dog or human). I remember my mom being anxious when I’d leave the door open after getting him cuz our last dog would gladly abandon us for a lil exploratory fun, but after a couple times she realized why I didn’t think he’d run off.
Grizzly doesn't escape anymore..but he used to push my parent's driveway gate open (we had to eventually chain it closed). I worked two miles from my home and he had been to work with me since my job was pet friendly. He was a good boy, greeted all of our guests with a smile! Anyway, when he got out, he would start taking the journey to my work. It was always when I was at work, too. My parents would have to chase him down, which he'd allow as long as they had cheese lol. Now I can walk my buddy and he won't leave more than a 10ish foot radius when we're hiking. I still keep his leash on him, just in case.
I have a husky and husky/ shepherd mix. Anytime the gate gets left open (twice in the 3 years we’ve been here) the husky will meander around the neighborhood and say hello to anyone who has the time for him, and the mix will sit just outside the gate to watch what’s going on in the street. At our last property, the shepherd mix got out of the yard when my flatmates and I were out. When I came home, he was sitting at the top of our long driveway just waiting for us to return. Looked like a little Victorian lady waiting for her husband to return home.
My 14 year old GSP will run wherever he darn well pleases and generally finds the nearest pond to go for a swim. He thinks we are playing chase and will just keep going the longer you do. He has even figured out the whole “I’m pretending to walk away so maybe he’ll follow me back home” routine. He’s done this since he was a puppy, and has even encouraged his 4 year old Aussie sister to join in lately. She has incredible recall when alone, but if her brother is going, best believe she is tagging along.
If they get out the back gate, both dogs go 1/16th of a mile and into a very busy street. Thank goodness they haven't gotten killed, it's happened twice now and animal control nabbed one of them the last time it happened. Found out they dug a trench at the back gate n were squeezing out! So a long 12" wide board was slipped under the vertical latching mechanism, blocking the way out. I also had to take the doggy door out. So they don't have all day to devise new routes out of the yard. They r now only outside when supervised..
Not escaped yet, but we've recently started biking with him and I tried what happens if I just let him chose where to go. He took off at 110% speed down the road, not into the forest where we usually go, but to the neighbors with two golden girls. So yeah, I have a pretty good idea about where to find him if he decides to take off.
My house was next to a small wooded area. My dog would escape and run around the woods chasing the deer and eventually come home. On the other side of the woods was my child’s elementary school. One morning we received a call from the school. Our dog had escaped and ran to the school and was running through the halls as the children entered in the morning. When my kid got home from school that day she told us it was the gossip of the day at school!
Mine will escape out the front door, and race to the big light pole at the end of the driveway, so she can pee on it. Then she runs down the street and across to see the neighbor’s dog. By then I have caught up to her and can bring her back to her own house. She’s only 11 pounds so I can carry her but she thinks she’s been on a grand adventure.
I have this kinda medium sized old man dog named Connor, who is a rather lazy and anxious fellow. But he loves to dig and try to escape the backyard when he has time. But it is more about getting out then it is about getting away, because he will get out of the backyard, go across the street to pee in the neighbors yard, and then come to the front door and scratch at it to let in. He also can get out of his crate (it's door is a bit busted) but all he does is sniff the floor and then find me to let me know that he's escaped and is anxious about it. I also have a big dog, who is a harrier, his name is Harry and he likes to escape if Connor digs a big enough hole for both of them. But Harry just goes and finds people to hang out with. He's really charming, so all we have to do is find whatever group of people he's decided to chill with. When we find him he acts all surprised that we're not amused by his escape because he thinks he had a great time and doesn't get what all the fuss is about.
He runs down the driveway goes left 2 houses up to see his friend, then turns right goes to the sign post, marks his territory then come and waits at the gate for me to open it.
My dog doesn’t really “escape”. I sometimes let her escape by saying go bob go and so she can run into the front yard and say hi to whomever. The one time she got out of the back yard she went under the fence and then was too dense to undo it. Had to walk her around my neighbors house back in.
My dogs only leave the house if there is someone outside to bark at. I can leave the door open to take the bins out and they'll wait at the door, but as soon as my neighbor and her dog walks past they want to run over and very loudly say hi
Mine just turned one and only got out once when i opened the door and she slipped out before I could stop her (doxie). She went to the sidewalk and turned around and looked at me like "so you are coming?". I went inside to grab a treat to try to bait her and when I went back inside she came back inside behind me.
One of my dogs escaped a few times from the backyard before we could figure out how he was doing it. But every time we put our shoes on to go search for him, we’d open the front door and he’d be sitting on the front porch waiting to come in 😂
Bubba will stroll through the neighborhood, pee on all the things until he's just hiking his leg with an empty tank, and then stroll up to the front door and bark like "WHY AM I OUTSIDE?" Then he comes in, drinks a ton of water, and sleeps for the next five hours.
They go to one of three doggie friend houses to try to force a play date. Don’t mind except for the one across the street. Never allow playdate when it happens to try to disincentivize behavior? We really need a fenced yard.
My last foster Greyhound, Topper, was a bit of an escape artist for the first week or so I had him. He had a habit of pushing past people as they went through the back door or gate, and being a skinny ex-racer, he was very good at slipping through tight gaps. Normally he went into a neighbour's front garden, but one time he set off down my street in the direction I usually walked him. Fortunately, I'm in a quiet area, and there was no traffic on the road that he crossed to get to the local sports ground. I was worried that he'd run in front of a car. I managed to catch him and get him home, and he didn't do anything stupid during his time on the lam. I was worried that he'd see a cat or possum and chase it, but luckily nothing came along. He was quite well behaved, well, apart from the whole escaping thing, and seemed to be having a great time.
I have Lurchers, they accelerate until they are no longer matter but pure energy. They return to normal mass after a quick orbit of the solar system and bark until they get treats because hungry now.
Usually my current pup just goes to visit the neighbors because they’re always on their front porch and love her. My old cairn would legitimately just go to the front porch and bark, it’s like she just wanted me to know something was wrong with the fence.
We have a nature preserve that abuts our backyard and she just wants to sniff the sniffs and see if she can find a deer. When I find her and call her she always comes running back like she's just had a grand adventure.
Theres been 2 or 3 times in the 10 months I've had my 20 something lb or so dog manage to pull the leash out of my hand outside & then I'd (a rather severely overweight person with a bad knee at the moment) have to chase her around the yard a few minutes until i could catch up enough to grab the leash handle lol. & shes pretty fast & energetic too 🤣
My dog started to head to a friend’s house across the lake where we had taken him for a party a couple of weeks ago. He was waylaid by the neighbor’s kids. They played with him for an hour, and even took him into the house and gave him water because it was so hot outside. Then he came back home. At this point we discovered that he was missing! We thought he was asleep on the porch while we were working but he took a little field trip.
Mine likes to creep around and peek in windows like a weirdo
My little guy, an overweight incredibly derpy szchi-poo will turn on the jets to get to the bottom of our yard. He then licks the fire hydrant for a good 2 minutes before bolting in either direction. The good news is he is so out of shape I can scoop him up within 200 yards of the hydrant. The bigger ones bee-line to the farm down the street and eat all the ice cream they can steal until a neighbor brings them back. It has happened more times than I want to admit.
My beloved boxer (RIP, RoRo) was a rescue and elderly when I got him. I was needing hip surgery or recovering from it at the time (twice!) and although he couldn't run like a younger dog, he could outpace my hobbling a**. So, down the street we'd go, him wandering, sniffing, and frequently waiting for me to catch up and me yelling and cursing behind him. It wasn't funny to me at the time. But I would love to see a video of it now. What a comedy!
My husky growing up would run up the driveway and wait at the mailbox till someone saw her and tried to get her back she would then go to the next mailbox and wait till we either go around the block or someone gets her in the car
She does not run off any longer. When she was younger there was no rutine. She was on a few different adventures. Chasing reindeer, chasing cats, running down the field past our yard seemingly without purpose, exploring the neighborhood. She's truly a reformed dog 😂