Has your Yorkie ever gone missing?

[yorkieusa]

I'm glad your little one is ok. They can give you a heart attack!

[teacup0819]

Trixie got out once where I didn't know where she was. I came home from being out and noticed that she wasn't at the front door....I looked everywhere in the house yelling her name. OMG...I panicked....my dh had left for work, I called him and asked if he saw her ... nope. I called my friend and neighbor to see if she came by and took her for a visit...nope. Called both of my kids....nope. By now, my friend had come down the block to help me look for Trixie with her daughter. I called my daughter again thinking that she was pulling a joke on me and who was visiting her high school (she had just graduated a few months before) and she answers her phone and I scream "Don't #@#@ around .... do you have Trixie .... I'm in no mood for this @#!$#@.....tell me the truth" (and I never use that language ... well almost never) Then, to my relief and embarrassment, at that moment, my neighbor who has now heard me yelling frantically...comes over and says that she found Trixie sitting on my front steps all alone and that no one was home so she brought her into her house. Needless to say....I had to apologize to my darling daughter and to the teacher that was standing with her when I called and she had me on speakerphone. Panic is not a fun thing to experience. Trixie had gotten out of the front door when my dh left for work and he never saw her slip by...thankfully she was fine and not lost or hurt.

[Baily341o]

Bailey is only a year and a half, and she has run off about 3 times. When she was a baby, she could fit throughtthe iron fence posts at the bottom of our fence, and she was running like crazy around everywhere...bad part is; we live on a golf course and Bailey was running to see the golfers, going by the pond, sniffing around, being free. That didn't last for long. We finally caught her! Another time was when we were eating dinner; Bailey wanted to go outside, so we let her out and then I notice Bailey not wanting to come inside and I see a little harness glistening in the light out by the pond/lake sniffing around! Finally caught her with the "LP"(Laser Pointer) and treats. I think she did the golf course thing another time. And I let her off of her leash as we were walking up the driveway, and ofcourse she darts to go see if the cat is next door and keeps running into the court.... bad dog! And I got her back with a little piece of meat. Last time was before we got the chicken wire up, we had her attached to a long orange metal lead, and she chewed THROUGH IT. Like a hamster! And so then we put a leash and a soccer ball attached to her so if she got out of the fence, the soccer ball would catch her; cruel. maybe. But just for a short time and to seee where she was escaping. AND IT WORKED! Then we put up chicken wire and all is good and well(except she got through that to, and then we re-applied, and no escaping since then... about 9 months))

[gracielove]

I still watch Gracie like a hawk. Especially when repair people are here or other visitors. I put her on her leash when people are going to be going in and out of the doors. I don't ever want that awful fearful feeling to run through me again. She is still a young dog and there are lots of things to grab her attention and cause her to bolt. On the other hand I apparently am old enough that I can't take the stress of worrying about her!

[capt_noonie]

Oh god I remembered another time but it was a friend's yorkie. We were at a school during summer for a little meetup. My friend went back to her apt a short walk away to do something (I forget) and leaves me and another friend in charge of her yorkie. I turn my back but in the corner of my eye I see a long yorkie tail go around the corner, which is crazy I saw bc my peripherals are terrible. I take off running after her, but she is so fast! And to top it off now Uni thinks we are playing and she takes off running after me!

I thought to myself, well there is a little wall that we have to lift the dogs over to get in, so surely she is stuck at the wall. I turn the corner and she is not there! She jumped over it! It's like 3 ft high! Now I'm really starting to panic! I jumped over the wall and now Uni is barking her head off. There is a little playground on the other side of the wall, and a gate, but any yorkie could easily squeeze through the bars. I am really stressing now bc if she got out, she could have gone any direction and I would have no clue, and plus Uni trying to get up to me as well.

The gate was open, but luckily she did not run out the playground. I scanned the area for what seemed like an eternity but in reality just a few secs and saw her. I try to run up to her to get her, but now she thinks we are playing. She keeps running underneath the slides and bridges in the playground, and its in sand so I am not very fast on the sand. I am worn out at this point. Then I had the brilliant idea of pretending to have a treat and she came right to me and I grabbed her by her harness. Phew!

So we walked back to the tables and I told the other girls what had just happened. We kept her on her leash until her mommy came back. Omg I thought I would die if I lost my friend's yorkie. Thank goodness it turned out how it did!

[yavenay]

Speaking of gone missing. Brandi went missing in the house late last night. I woke up to hearing Brandi barking and Brandi never barks unless someone is at the door. Anyway I jump up immediately because my first thought was someone was in the house.

I run down stairs half asleep yelling for Brandi, I search the whole house from top to bottom but no Brandi and she was not responding to any of my commands. It was at least 2:00 in the morning and there is no way should couldn't gotten out. Now I am frantic, I'm thinking is there a ghost in the house, is she hurt....just all kinds of stuff running through my mind.

Then it darn on me. I know where she is. I keep the cat's litter box in the powder room and I keep the door half way open. I don't know how many times Brandi has manage to lock herself in there trying to get to the cat poop. I go to open the door to the powder room and who comes barreling out? She came running out at full speed like she always does. I was like why didn't you at least bark when you heard me calling you? I live in a 3 story townhome.....talk about getting my exercise.

[Saeka]

I've had that happen once, but to my mom and not me. When I was at school one year, Rhia stayed with my parents back home. My mom didn't shut the screen door on the front porch completely and Rhia got out. Soon after my mom was chasing her down the street in her slippers and robe. :P I'd have been heartbroken if she got lost!

[TatumsMom]

We live out in the country. We have a fenced yard but with cattle guards on each end so the dogs CAN get out but never do. One time our housecleaner was there alone and put Tatum out to potty. Well, in Tatum's defense, summer had just ended and she was missing her girls (our daughters). We think she heard what she thought was the Gator down at my mother-in-law's house (way across the pasture) so she took off running in that direction thinking it was the girls. Poor lady ran after her through the pasture, over my MIL's fence and lost sight of her. She was frantic. She called us (both of us working out of town) and continued looking up and down the road for an hour. Hubby finally got home and got on the Gator to look. He ended up finding her about a mile down the road at a friend's house. This lady happened to be out mowing her yard (which is what Tatum probably heard) and Tatum just showed up and plopped down on her porch. The neighbor was just getting in her truck to drive around with Tatum when my hubby showed up. Scared the you-know-what out of us but most of all freaked the housecleaner out. She loves Yorkies and was just devastated that she got away from her. Nothing like that had ever happened before and would probably never happen again but she now refuses to take her out to potty without her harness and leash on.

[TatumsMom]

Originally Posted by yavenay

Speaking of gone missing. Brandi went missing in the house late last night. I woke up to hearing Brandi barking and Brandi never barks unless someone is at the door. Anyway I jump up immediately because my first thought was someone was in the house.

I run down stairs half asleep yelling for Brandi, I search the whole house from top to bottom but no Brandi and she was not responding to any of my commands. It was at least 2:00 in the morning and there is no way should couldn't gotten out. Now I am frantic, I'm thinking is there a ghost in the house, is she hurt....just all kinds of stuff running through my mind.

Then it darn on me. I know where she is. I keep the cat's litter box in the powder room and I keep the door half way open. I don't know how many times Brandi has manage to lock herself in there trying to get to the cat poop. I go to open the door to the powder room and who comes barreling out? She came running out at full speed like she always does. I was like why didn't you at least bark when you heard me calling you? I live in a 3 story townhome.....talk about getting my exercise.

haha! Yep, we've had "lost in the house" before too. Our master closet has two entrances (one from bathroom and one from bedroom). Tatum has gotten closed up in there before when I didn't notice her follow me in and then she won't bark to get out. One time she yipped real softly and I couldn't for the life of me figure out where it was coming from. Now that it's happened a couple times, it's the first place I look.

[kristalblue74]

Chewie's gotten out a few times, but the scariest time he didn't actually get out! In the house I was living in then, I had a big fenced backyard with a couple small holes and a porch off the back door. I turned my back for just a second, and he disappeared! Of course, it was about 10*F, and well after dark. My folks and I scoured the neighborhood for well over an hour, following footprints in the snow (which turned out to be a cat), and just panicking in general. We'd all gathered back at the house for a breather, and here he comes, traipsing out of the backyard, just happy as a clam. He never got out of the fence at all! He crawled waaaaaay under the porch (and I think probably under the house a ways too). I don't know what he got into, because he STUNK, but he was warm and dry and totally oblivious to the panic he'd caused! Little turkeybutt...

He went out on a leash until it warmed up, and then some rabbit wire around the porch solved THAT problem!