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May @GTB know more about this story. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-36130437
Sheepdog walks home
- Thread starter Riverblue
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- Nottinghamshire
Sounds like you could keep on selling him
Grassman
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- Derbyshire
Just read it. Seems a bit unbelievable somehow.
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- Ceredigion, wales
I don't really know any more than what's in the article tbh. I know the family involved and for those of you who have heard of Rachel's Dairy, Shan who's in the video is Rachel's daughter.
Grassman
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- Derbyshire
I think he had help somehow!One hell of a journey, he looks well for it.
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- Ceredigion, wales
This story is true and it isn't unusual for sheepdogs to travel vast distances to get 'home'.
llamedos
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I bred a litter of collie x years ago, a friend had one, at the time she lived with her mother, who disliked the dog, so her father said he would have it, he lived in a pub, the dog got out of the large high walled yard at the back, and dropped down onto the canal bank, from there just a short walk to the M62, where it was spotted at various locations on the route back to home, it stuck to the verges all along the M way, police picked it up at the slip road nearest home, it took him 48 hrs, he was lean, tired and had v sore paws, just after that short journey.
They can do it, this dog looks damn fit for his long journey.
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- Ceredigion
I bought a sheepdog admittedly only two miles away, I did Everthing to keep the dog here but was having none of it, for years after I visited that farm the dog would run and hide until I left
Remarkable story considering how busy that area around Liverpool/Manchester/Chester is. Would love to see a gps plot of his route.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...lks-240-miles-home-to-wales-after-bolting-fr/
Edit. Thanks for the merge. I went back 4 pages looking to see if it had been mentioned already. This place is just too popular
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...lks-240-miles-home-to-wales-after-bolting-fr/
Edit. Thanks for the merge. I went back 4 pages looking to see if it had been mentioned already. This place is just too popular
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Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Truly remarkable considering some of the busy roads in the area to the north of here. I can't imagine he'd hav made it all that way cross country, too many fences or hedges to push through
I lost a bitch gathering a hill that neighbour had rented, about 25 miles away. Spent half the next day up there looking for her. 3 wks later she turned up at a farm I'd done some tailing at where she'd been with me. They'd seen her trying to cross a large river for 2 days before they caught her.
Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
The more I think about this, the less I believe it
betweenthelines
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- southwest
Bought my collie from a farm lees than 2 miles away.
he's never tried to go "home"--it's hard enough to get him out of the kitchen when its raining!
he's never tried to go "home"--it's hard enough to get him out of the kitchen when its raining!
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- Ceredigion
It's only 14 miles a day, would have followed the coast path most of the way, lives by the coast
Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Really, the bit around Liverpool, Manchester ship canal would be a bit tricky, did he really walk all the way around the Wirral? Then there's the dee estuary.
It's a lovely story but I don't believe it
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- N.Lincs
I know a bloke who used to sell homing pigeons. He was never short of a bob or two - used to sell the same ones 8 or 9 times
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
It's a lovely story but as mentioned above a few times the dog looked very well and well fed for such a long journey...At the risk of sounding extremely cynical I think two people fancied their 15 minutes of fame and have concocted this story...if it's genuinely true then it's truly remarkable