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Dog Ejected During Crash Found Days Later Herding A Group Of Sheep
dailycaller.com ^ | 6/11/2021 | Briana Lyman

Posted on 06/11/2021 12:18:55 PM PDT by rktman

A missing Idaho dog was found herding a group of sheep two days after he was ejected from a car during a crash, according to a local report.

The incident unfolded around 11:55 a.m., Sunday when Linda Oswald and her family were driving along State Highway 41 with their dog, Tilly, in the back seat, The Spokesman-Review reported. Tilly was ejected from the rear window, which was shattered during the accident, according to the report.

In apparent shock, Tilly bolted across the prairie south of Rathdrum. Oswald and six strangers pulled over when the crash happened immediately and began looking for Tilly.

“People just kept going out,” Oswald reportedly said. “2:30 in the morning some people were out looking for him.” Oswald ended her search Sunday after approximately 10 hours and posted a picture of Tilly on Facebook asking for help to find him, The Spokesman-Review reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: amazingdogs; chat; dogs; godgaveusdogs; localnews; pawsome
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To: RoosterRedux

Yup.


21 posted on 06/11/2021 12:42:03 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: rktman

Good dog!


22 posted on 06/11/2021 12:47:00 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
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To: SamAdams76

I’ll take an Aussie!


23 posted on 06/11/2021 12:47:46 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules
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To: rktman

24 posted on 06/11/2021 12:53:45 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: rktman

That’s just across the state line from my house. Saw it on local news last night. Terrific story, fabulous dog.


25 posted on 06/11/2021 12:55:02 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: rktman

I love this!

I also love this:

“People just kept going out,” Oswald reportedly said. “2:30 in the morning some people were out looking for him.”


26 posted on 06/11/2021 12:58:03 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: rktman

My old Tervuren, Ranger, would have done this. He had an insatiable drive to herd like objects, be they nephews, livestock, etc. At the dog park I used to take him to, there were a group of Great Dane owners that met with their dogs every Thursday evening. They hated Ranger because he considered them “like objects,” and instead of the Danes being able to run free as a pack as intended, they were penned in a corner of the park like a herd.


27 posted on 06/11/2021 12:59:08 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: rktman

That is really cool! We live just five miles east of where the found the doggie!


28 posted on 06/11/2021 1:01:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("Pour les vaincre il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace")
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To: Meatspace

>> It’s not just a dog, it’s a Border Collie!

LOL - I knew it was a Border Collie just from the headline.


29 posted on 06/11/2021 1:02:41 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: rktman

Good dog!

30 posted on 06/11/2021 1:04:32 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Meatspace
It’s not just a dog, it’s a Border Collie!

And not just a Border Collie but a Heeler mix...the herding instinct is super strong in Tilly.

Tilly shook off the accident impact, sniffed the air and went to work...for two days. Sheep don't herd themselves ya know.


31 posted on 06/11/2021 1:07:34 PM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: a fool in paradise

I suspect the dog actually caused the crash out of the sheer boredom of being out of work


32 posted on 06/11/2021 1:08:04 PM PDT by atc23
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To: mel
And beside COVID China celebrates dog meat festival this month

Creepy...

33 posted on 06/11/2021 1:14:31 PM PDT by GOPJ (FreeRepublic is our samizdat. - Freeper Fred Hayek)
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To: Cowgirl
Me too. This is why mine either ride in crates or harnessed to their little seat belt thingies. It doesn't take much of a hit to pop a door open in traffic. How they ride depends on where we are going. Ten miles to town down country roads and they use seatbelts. More than that or on the Interstate they ride in crates. My daughter lets their brother ride in her lap and that scares me to death.


34 posted on 06/11/2021 1:16:50 PM PDT by Tennessee Conservative
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To: GOPJ

They ruin everything. Get them penned back up and out of sight like Mao did.


35 posted on 06/11/2021 1:24:44 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Joe 6-pack

We had two Border Collies on the farm when I was growing up. They were my great uncle’s dogs, he named the first Lassie after the TV dog and the other was Rennie because his colors reminded everyone of Rin Tin Tin. Hey, I never said my great uncle had a vivid imagination.

Anyhoo, those two dogs were great herders.
Horses? No problem.
Cattle? In the bag. This was especially helpful.
Chickens, where ya want’em Pa!
On a slow day they would even herd the multitude of cats on the farm!

Once we were working in the plant bed. Around noon my great uncle took his coat off and hung it on a tree limb. End of the day we were back at the house. About dark my great uncle started wondering where the dogs were.
My dad grabbed a flashlight and went to the fields we had been near looking for them.
He finally found them at the plant bed laying under my great uncle’s coat that he had forgotten.
Faithful dogs those two.


36 posted on 06/11/2021 1:30:42 PM PDT by oldvirginian (Shut up and sing, shut up and dribble, shut up and play, shut up and act...just SHUT UP)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Cool. We need a road trip up to Idaho.


37 posted on 06/11/2021 1:31:01 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: rktman

rktman is always welcome in Idaho!!


38 posted on 06/11/2021 1:38:06 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse (Nothing dies harder than a lie that people want to believe)
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To: Meatspace

Border collies are a fantastic breed. They are compulsive workers and highly energetic. They must have space and a purpose in life.


39 posted on 06/11/2021 1:38:17 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Joe Biden is PRINO (President in Name Only).)
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To: Cuttnhorse; rktman

Indeed! Lots of FRiends to to meet in Idaho


40 posted on 06/11/2021 1:40:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("Pour les vaincre il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace")
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