My father used to have hunting dogs and occasionally he said one would run off into the woods and get lost.....he would leave his jacket at the base of a tree, and then return to that spot everyday for a couple of weeks....he said every time he could remember, usually within a week of the dog getting lost, dad would go back on his daily "jacket check", and he would find that hunting dog curled up on that jacket, waiting for daddy to come back and get his jacket! So I guess they dont go far from say a 3 mile area, and with their sense of smell, when they locate something that belongs to their human, they just stay there and wait for their human to return. |