so happy you had a good ending. don't beat yourself up I think every yorkie parent has had a dog get loose. I have had my share of scares and times I ran outside in a nightgown or bare feet in the snow chasing after an escaping yorkie. One time really sticks in my mind, this happened with my yorkie prior to Lola. Normally I come in through the garage, but I was using my husband's truck and came in through the front door with a bunch of grocery bags, I kicked the door closed with my foot, it had looked like it closed. Hours later I was on the phone for work and I heard a dog barking outside by the street and I said to myself that is odd normally anytime a dog would walk by my house my last yorkie Kirby would be barking and going nuts inside, but nothing was happening in my house, so I got up to investigate, and OMG my front door was wide open, the wind blew it open, and the dog barking was Kirby. There were also two cars stopped in front of my house, and one of the guys was out of the car, he asked me if this was my dog I said yes, he said he Kirby was in the middle of the street and so he stopped to try to pick him up but Kirby started barking and running around the car, then by the time I came outside he ran up on the lawn. It took me hours until I could calm down, so I can sure understand what you must have felt like. With each yorkie I get more careful, but these little buggers are so dang quick.
BTW my dad grew up in Elmhurst and I grew up on Long Island, but I have been in MI now quite a long time. Is there still a neighborhood there they call the Manors, or something with Manor in it? |