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To: fireman15
Dogs have sometimes returned home after running off on a trip, but most dogs don’t have a well developed sense of direction.

I can't say the same about my dog, a big Sheltie who looks for all the world like a small Collie. I used to walk him off-leash at an isolated place across the highway from where I lived and one day he got spooked and just ran off. I found him an hour later outside the house waiting to get in. He had not only found his way home on a path we had never walked, but managed somehow to get across six lanes of busy highway!

15 posted on 10/13/2019 8:10:52 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Some dogs and cats do have a well developed homing instinct. My aunt had a Labrador that she had to give us because it kept scaring the mailman.
The dog kept getting out of our yard and finding its way back to my aunt's house ten miles away through town. Unfortunately, our current wiener-dog does not appear to be capable of finding her way out of a paper bag.
17 posted on 10/13/2019 8:44:04 AM PDT by fireman15
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