How Do Dogs/ Lurchers Find Their Way Back To Us ?

[terryd 8,760]

this is in the guinness book of records

 

The farthest distance that a lost pet dog has found his way home occurred in 1979 when Jimpa, a labrador/boxer cross, turned up at his old home in Pimpinio, Victoria, Australia after walking 3,218 km (2,000 miles) across Australia. His owner, Warren Dumesney (Australia), had taken the dog with him 14 months earlier when he went to work on a farm at Nyabing, Western Australia. During his trek the dog negotiated the almost waterless Nullarbor Plain.

[mattyg 1,862]

My "wandering minstrel" just keeps an eye out for the red faced screaming bloke 5 fields away and pops back just to make sure the other "sensible" dog hasn't caught owt while he was away doing "important doggy stuff"

[morton 5,368]

Was just sitting here thinking about how my pup (13 months) finds it's way back to me (without whistleing/calling) and come across this http://www.canidae.com/blog/2012/04/how-do-pets-find-their-way-back-home.html . If I take my pup to a place he hasn't been before (say on friends permission) and he has a long run, and the longer he is gone then it gets me thinking is he gonna come back as he doesn't have a clue where he is. But he always returns. Just wondering what other peoples thoughts are it. Here is a paragraph from the link, which I think I have heard about before somewhere.

 

This is a topic I’ve always found intriguing. It’s one thing for a pet to find their way back home over short distances, but it’s another thing when they set off to find their owner in a completely different state or town they’ve never been in. One story recounts how an Irish Terrier dog named Prince went searching for his owner, a soldier serving with the British army during WW I. Prince had grown so depressed when his owner was shipped overseas to France that he stopped eating. Finally, he ran away from home. No one knows how Prince was able to cross the English Channel, but once he was in France, he started searching for his owner in the war torn land with bombs and bullets whizzing all around him. Prince found his owner in Northern France in a foxhole.

 

 

 

Poetic licence,same as the bonny wee terrier in a Scottish cemetery and "lassie come Home".The average mutt that gets lost,or lost an owner, will soon settle at the first door its fed at.

[flipbull 1,139]

 

 

Was just sitting here thinking about how my pup (13 months) finds it's way back to me (without whistleing/calling) and come across this http://www.canidae.com/blog/2012/04/how-do-pets-find-their-way-back-home.html . If I take my pup to a place he hasn't been before (say on friends permission) and he has a long run, and the longer he is gone then it gets me thinking is he gonna come back as he doesn't have a clue where he is. But he always returns. Just wondering what other peoples thoughts are it. Here is a paragraph from the link, which I think I have heard about before somewhere.

 

This is a topic Ive always found intriguing. Its one thing for a pet to find their way back home over short distances, but its another thing when they set off to find their owner in a completely different state or town theyve never been in. One story recounts how an Irish Terrier dog named Prince went searching for his owner, a soldier serving with the British army during WW I. Prince had grown so depressed when his owner was shipped overseas to France that he stopped eating. Finally, he ran away from home. No one knows how Prince was able to cross the English Channel, but once he was in France, he started searching for his owner in the war torn land with bombs and bullets whizzing all around him. Prince found his owner in Northern France in a foxhole.

 

 

 

Poetic licence,same as the bonny wee terrier in a Scottish cemetery and "lassie come Home".The average mutt that gets lost,or lost an owner, will soon settle at the first door its fed at.

So what about the one in guiness book of records. Is that poetic liscense to?

[Red Center 165]

this is in the guinness book of records

 

The farthest distance that a lost pet dog has found his way home occurred in 1979 when Jimpa, a labrador/boxer cross, turned up at his old home in Pimpinio, Victoria, Australia after walking 3,218 km (2,000 miles) across Australia. His owner, Warren Dumesney (Australia), had taken the dog with him 14 months earlier when he went to work on a farm at Nyabing, Western Australia. During his trek the dog negotiated the almost waterless Nullarbor Plain.

Fook me, that dog must've just about dropped dead after that. Must've found a hole through the dingo fence