Doggone

I don't know much about dogs, being a cat man myself, but if canines are like felines, they go with what their genes tell them.

Your standard house cat has been bred for centuries to follow the lead of his leonine forebears and sleep twenty hours a day attack the slightest morsel of food sitting around the house to feed the rest of the pride back home.

Here's a case of a dog living up to his name. Out in Spokane, a doggy dogg was ejected from his family's car when it was involved in an accident.

For two long agonizing days, her family walked the floors, wondering where she had bolted. Linda Oswald, her family, and Tilly The Dog were cruising along Idaho State Highway 41 the Sunday before last when their car collided with another.  And the rear window blew out, and that launched Tilly out of the car and onto the world.

Tilly was totally unhurt, but she took off on foot (paw), and what do you know? At least six complete strangers pulled over along the highway to help the Oswalds look for her.  But no luck.

All told, the searchers were out on the hunt for 10 hours that Sunday.

“People just kept going out,” Oswald said. “We were sore and exhausted.”

Then, the family took the 21st Century approach and put the whole deal on a Facebook post that included a picture of Tilly, a 2-year-old border collie and red heeler mix. That post was shared by more than 3,000 people. And three of the people who saw it were Tyler, Travis and Zane Potter.  They had seen the dog in the wanted poster hanging around on their family farm near Rathdrum, Idaho, on Tuesday.

The Oswalds and the Potters figure that the dog was attracted to their farm because they have sheep.

“I think that dog was trying to herd,” Travis Potter said.

So Tilly is home, the Oswalds are happy about it, and shepherd dogs will do what shepherd dogs will do!

Good thing she's not a boxer. They might have found her in a gym sparring with a middleweight.