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Had my redbone get loose just as I was leaving for work yesterday and had anxiety about him being loose. Thank God for good neighbors who helped me out and called when he Finally came home on his own. I guess the younger generation is spoiled by always having Garmin's on our dogs.

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30 years ago I lost a young pup. He had only been out a couple of times. I was hunting 2 hours away from home. We turn the dogs out and they treed a coon. We were walking to the tree and a car drove by and stop and then went on his way. I didn't think much of it until I got looking for the pup. He was gone. Well I just wrote him off and finished hunting that weekend. I wasn't happy about it, but it wasn't like loosing a good dog. That was October 1st. Come Christmas, I got a call from a lady that said she had my dog. She lived 3 hours from where I was hunting. Whoever stole the pup, left my collar on him. I went and picked him up, all that they had taught him to do was load. I took him out and he did nothing. About 3 weeks later he started treeing. He ended up being the best dog I have ever owned. Funny how things work out.

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Was hunting in PA. one night and my 1yr. old English dog was stolen. He was already running and treeing his own coon and the owner of his sire had offered me 600.00 for him. He was gone about 6 mo. when a coon hunter my brother-in-law knew called and said he thought he knew where my dog was. This was in the early 60's and 600 was a lot of money. I was only making 1 dollar an hr. on my job. We went there and the dog houses were across the road from the house. It was dark because we drove there from WV. after work. I shined my light on the dog box and called my dogs name and out he came. I went to the house and no one came to the door. We set in the truck all night and when lts. came on we went to the door. An old man came to the door and said he got the dog from a young man who lived close to where we were hunting. He said if the dog was mine to take it he didn't want a stolen dog. I asked him what he paid for it and he said 24.50 He said the guy wanted a tv but he didn't have one to trade. I got his address and told him I would send him his money. I sent him 30.00

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The guy was on welfare and the state furnished him with a lawyer and I dropped it. The warrant was 13.00 and I didn't get it back. I hunted the dog a few nights later around home and he was shot killing sheep.

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a few years ago i was hunting on the mountain,i turned my cur and walker loose and hunted bout 4 or 5 hours.when i got to the truck i started calling my dogs in,my walker came right on in but my cur didnt,so after waiting several more hours i went to the house.i went back the next day to where i turned the cur out and still no dog,well after a week of this and still no dog i figured she was a gone for good,i couldnt understand what had happen to her.i was parking and hunting the same spot 3 or 4 times a week and no sign.then one night i parked in the same place and getting ready to turn my walker loose and up came that cur i lost,i figured it up and the dog was gone around a month.i have no ideal where that dog could have been all that time.

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About 30 years ago when I was just a kid I bought my first pup. It was a grade B&T gyp. She was worthless but being a kid and it being first dog I kept her for several years. Well one day she was gone, someone had come in the yard and stole her. I was somewhere between sad that she was gone and relieved that I didn't have to feed her anymore. Exactly one month later here comes old Susie running down the road from about a mile away back home. Apparently someone else had found out that she was worthless too! Lol.
About a year later I ended up giving her away to some people looking for a pet.

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i lost a kemmer cur gyp for a few days. i was at a friends house and let her loose to run around. as i was about to leave i called her and she came to me. i stood at the truck saying my good byes and opened the door to the truck to load and she was gone again. i called and called and didn't see or hear anything. i called until midnight. the next morning i combed the woods around his house and found nothing. for three days i looked for her. then i got a call from a watchman at a closed boat yard. went to the boat yard and there she was. she had been staying on a floating dock between the stair ramp and the dock. the watchman had been feeding her and giving her water until he could get ahold of her and read her collar. she is bad about not coming back. to this day i get a sense of dread when i turn her out like i'll never see her again. i've left her in the woods overnight several times.

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I lost a pup for 2 years. I couldn't find her when we got ready to go. This was before tracking collars. I looked everywhere for her. 2 years later I get a call from a lady that said she had my dog, I told her all of mine were in the back yard but she said it had my collar on it. I pulled up to the house and there was the pup I had lost 2 years before. I asked her how long the dog had been there and she said " oh about 2 years" she never bothered to call the number on the collar until it killed one of her chickens!

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I was hunting this past New Years Eve, anyways my ol gyp hit a track and went. They hit about a mile and I was shocking her off of a coyot because the place is thick with em. Anyways I spent the next 4 days looking for her all over the harsh land (where I was hunting is nothing for miles). I got nervous because we got about a foot of snow, and the temps where hitting in the negatives. After the 4th day a guy called 20 miles down the road and said he had my dog. I went to his house and sure enough it was her. The sad part was that he stole my collar but had no way proving it. The only reason he gave her back is because she refused to eat for him for the time she was there.

Funny thing is I turned around at his house the day before looking for her.

Thank the Good Lord I found her cause she my girl

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i talk to my dad this morning and he lost my 13 month old gyp last night. wish i had a good story to tell but i dont. im pretty upset cause i liked this gyp alot. he went back to were he turned loose at and she wasnt their. didnt have a tracker on her and ive said 1,000 times i wouldnt turn a dog a loose without one!!! all shes got is a collor with a name plate and mine and dads # on it. my phone quit working wensday night cause it got wet when i got caught out in a rain storm going to my male dog!!! hopefully she dont go to the wrong house and stays off the road!!

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I was in a hunt one night, an our dogs can a coon in an old mine. Two of the dogs came out, but my Bonnie female stayed in there. For a week strait my buddy that was guiding the cast either took me or went his self to the mouth of the mine. I got copies of the old mine maps, Had friends on Mine rescue teams that said they would get the equipment and we would go in the mine and get her. Dad being the older, smarter coal miner wouldn't let us. Every morning and every eveing on the way to and from work I would turn my tracker on when I went by the holler where the mine was. Dad had gave up hope. On the 11th morning right before I got to the holler I got a beep on my tracker. I pulled up in the holler and she was coming out. I still have her today at 10yrs old. And my buddy fixed it where a dog can not get in the mines now.

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i talk to my dad this morning and he lost my 13 month old gyp last night. wish i had a good story to tell but i dont. im pretty upset cause i liked this gyp alot. he went back to were he turned loose at and she wasnt their. didnt have a tracker on her and ive said 1,000 times i wouldnt turn a dog a loose without one!!! all shes got is a collor with a name plate and mine and dads # on it. my phone quit working wensday night cause it got wet when i got caught out in a rain storm going to my male dog!!! hopefully she dont go to the wrong house and stays off the road!!

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Had a redbone that was a year old decide to run one afternoon when my back was turned. I had him out in the yard while I was cleaning the cage. I hollered for him and saw or heard nothing. Looked for hours in the dark and 7 hours the next day and couldn't find him. My wife had to leave town and I was gonna be at work for 40 hours straight so i wasn't around. Long story short, about a sday exactly after he ran, someone was having a party 9 miles away and up he walked. They called me and I was able to get my neighbor to get him and bring him home. Lucky dog consoideroing he crossed two highways and had lots of coyote packs in the area.

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This has to do with one of my closet friends and hunting buddy whom I won't mention his name . I give a lot of credit almost all to him for training my Megan dog . We'll we raised a liter of pups ( her first liter ) and my buddy kept a male pup which he calls buster . Buster is one of the prettiest walker hounds you'll ever find and one heck of a coonhound ! We'll 2 years ago my buddy lost his mother to kidney failure and not long before that lost his dad to a massive heart attack after a night of coon hunting so my buddy slipped in a deep rut and depression set in . During this time he pretty much lost everything , his trucks. , house , his personnel business , you name it . Another friend whom has a horse farm allowed him to move in and work for room and board , during this time he had buster still but hadn't hunted him in almost a yr . This making buster 4 year old now and cast wins toward nt ch . Best we could figure a coon sneaked in the horse barn to rob feed and buster caught wind and ran him outta the barn , we found fresh tracks and seen dog tracks as we'll but no buster . Buster had been gone for bout 6 months now , my buddy had since straightened up and moved back in his moms house and started tracking with a bluegrass band playing guitar across the east coast . He called me and squirrel season had just came in and he said he had a few days in town and wanted to hunt so I went and picked him up next morning we'll before daylight and we stated out of his hollar and down the blacktop toward where we were gonna hunt . Bout three miles down the road we went around a sharp curve and I just happened to look back and I said there's a hound standing in the road so naturally I stoped we got out and here comes a hound running toward us and just like buster he stops sits on his butt and throws his paw up to shake , words can't describe the joy I had and my buddy broke loose and cried like a baby . He had his old collar on but the name tag was gone and it looked as if he had been fed by somebody cause he was in perfect health so. We guess he had been tied up the whole time . We went on hunting that morning and loaded buster in the box . We've been hunting since then and he's never missed a beat , plan on finishing him this summer in the hunts. ! Guess god works in strange ways at times !!!

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scary creek, that's a wonderful story. you should consider submitting that to a dog magizine or something.

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I have two from the past week. They are not as serious as the other ones on here and I hope I don't take away from the seriousness of the thread. As there have been some good stories so far.

Last Saturday night we went to a comp hunt and when we got home we had an extra dog in the box. Now we just drove 90 miles from the clubhouse with this dog and its 3 am. lol
I took it back to the owner the next morning and he hadn't missed it as he thought his sidekick got him out of the box.

Monday I got a text early in the day that my sidekick Corey was thinking about going hunting that night and was going to come get a dog. Anyway just before dark I went to the store and when I got home I had a dog missing. I had forgot about Corey and I was driving all over the place calling and looking then remembered to see if Corey had come and got here. Sure enough he had her.

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In the late 70's my Dad and Grandpa has a litter of pups, my Dad had kept a male and he was just getting started good to where he could tree a coon on his own. They had went one night during season and when they got ready to leave Tanner was no where to be found. Had all the other dogs caught and waited quite a while for him. Never heard a peep out of him. I am sure as they left my Dad threw and old coat down knowing he would be there in the morning. Went back the next day and still no Tanner. He looked for him for quite awhile, talked to folks around and no luck. The next summer Dad was talking to an old coon hunting buddy that said I guy in a town about 20 miles away had been telling about his young red dog that was a coon treeing fool. So Dad goes to the house of this fella in this little town and the guy told him he didn't have coon dog. So Dad waits about a week and drives there on Sunday afternoon pulls up in front of the house and sees a dog laying in the yard on the side of the house. Calls the dog by name and up he jumps and runs over to the car. Dad opened the car door and Tanner jumped in and they headed home. He was gone about 6 months.

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scary creek, that's a wonderful story. you should consider submitting that to a dog magizine or something.

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Not a hound but shortly after I had got out of high school I had a Siberian husky I had raised from a pup. I had him a couple years and had moved back home. I kept him at my grandparents place because my dad was already keeping hounds that would exceed the dog limit in town. My grandparents spoiled that husky where he had free run on their acreage & slept in the house at night. I would go get him periodically and take him for the weekend.
One day during deer season I got a call from my grandfather. He asked if I had the dog. I didn't. I had been there a day or two earlier & tied him up so he didn't follow me to my deer stand. Grandpa said he had let him loose but hadn't seen him in a couple days. He figured I had him.
The info on the collar was outdated & I had him vaccinated at a vet clinic nearly an hour away in a town I lived a short time.
I figured between deer season & grandparents place along the highway he was a goner. We looked for him off & on for months.
About 7 years later while working I see an old man walking my dog down the street nearly 35 miles from home.
I stopped the guy & started a conversation about the dog. He was a little defensive & protective when I told him it was my dog. Once I said his name the dog jumped up on me to give me a hug. The guy smiled.
He told me had lost a German shepherd female & had an ad in the newspaper. A lady called & said the dog had been harassing her sheep for days & she was going to kill it. The guy drove down there and parked along a cornfield where he could hear the dog chasing a coon. He hollered & my dog jumped in the back of his truck. He said he tried to track me down but the phone number was out of service & the vet clinic had no idea who I was.
He & his wife kept the dog. They had traveled all over the country & he had ran away in every state they ever visited. He had a good life with them & I dropped in once in awhile to see him. For 3 years I lived within a 1/2 mile of the dog & they walked him by our house regularly & I never saw him.
It gave me piece of mind knowing he had a good home.

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I lost one of my dogs that I grew up with for over two years one time. He always ran loose around the house as he could since we lived out in the country. He was more of a critter gitter and someone to walk along with me on squirrel hunts. Anyways he took off one day and apparently got lost on his adventure outside and never came back home. We thought he had gotten hit or someone else had taken him into their home and we wouldn't see him again.

One day my dads ex-wife was looking on the humane societys website and actually found him! He had been neutured and was staying at a foster home until he ended up in the humane society. Got him 80 miles from our house! Craziest thing ever to find him on the internet but it happened.

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Mines a little different.

Several years ago I was hunting a young dog and he wasn't progressing like he should. He was getting close to becoming worm food when I lost him while out hunting. Usually, the worthless kind manage to find their way to a house and you will ALWAYS get a phone call from someone to pick them up. But, to my surprise, nobody called and I wrote him off as a lost cause never to be seen again.

Three months later, I am at a big hunt about 100 miles from where I live. Lo and behold, there's a dog trader there that has this pup tied up in his stable of fine hounds available for purchase. I asked him about the dog and he must have really improved after I lost him (wink) but I sure didn't want him back and never said a word that I used to own him.

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4 years ago I sold a pair of dogs to a guy in Florida. I had held the dogs for several weeks waiting on him to come get them. He was working in Pennsylvania & drove from there to me in Minnesota & was driving back home to Florida. He showed up in a single cab ranger with no dog box. I have him an old box I had to haul the dogs home. We had a ukc event that day & he sat around & visited with everyone. He was having trouble getting the money wired. I sold them & held the papers on one dog until he got home to send me the rest of the money. Money never showed up & the guy quit returning my calls. I was out $1000.
Months later I was laid up with a bad ankle & was serving as hunt director at the heartland classic. I had a friend handling my hound in the hunt. I got a call from someone claiming my dog was in their yard. I assumed it was my hound being hunted until I realized the call came from Florida. It was the male pup I had sold. I convinced the person to lock the dog up & told him the guy owed me money. I tried to have him hold the dog at ransom until the guy could wire me my money. I called some coonhunters in the area in Florida to try to help me out.
The next morning the feller said that dog barked all night & he had to go. He returned him to the guy & told him to send me my money.
A coonhunter in Florida drove over & gave the guy a talking to for me. A few days later I got a check for $500.
My dad has been in touch with the guy a few times. He loves the female & has even won a little with her ( he has my ez entry card). I wish he'd get some performance money won with her!
I'm still out $500 but a lot of lessons were learned about selling dogs without cash in hand, never take a coonhunter at their word, the kindness of Good Samaritans, the brotherhood of coonhunters, and the power of the almighty.

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Several years back i had a dog that i had bought,I had him for about 2 years my dad carried him hunting one night and lost him .We looked for him every day for about 3 weeks and never found him just thought he was gone,It was about 4 months later got a call man said he had my dog said he woke up and he was in the yard.He was 40 miles from where my daddy had lost him he had to cross I59 twice and a couple major roads.long story short he was only 2 miles from the mans house that had raised him.I guess he was going home.

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I had kind of forgotten about this.

Several years ago I was living southwest of Little Rock and had turned my old Walker dog loose to run on a Thursday evening went out to put him up and he was gone. I thought well he will either be home in the morning or treed somewhere. Next morning still no dog, drove around a bit listening and never heard him. Had to go on to work and when I got home no dog so started search again. Nothing. About 8 am on Sat morning this young girl calls me and says I have your dog he was in the median of I-40 about 8 miles from my house and she stopped and picked him up, her Dad owned beagles and she was worried about him. I met her at a gas station to get him and he was in the backseat of her car. I would say he had he had been hit by a car as was limping badly on his left front. Took him to the vet and they said he was bruised up pretty bad and to lay him up for awhile to heal. Bad thing is I was single at the time and this girl was pretty darn cute and I was so worried about the dog I didn't get her name or number. LOL!

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