Does Anything At All Happen At Midnight???
Oh please don’t answer that! Last night we found out that in the wee hours of the morning a lot happens.
So Molly was a little antsy last night. She was moving around and my wife and I were lying in bed at around midnight, wondering if she needed to go outside and go to the bathroom. Senior dogs tend to have to go when they have to go! But also they could be thirsty, in pain, hungry, yada yada yada. Molly‘s full of nighttime worries. She’s always seeing the light flashing or movement that doesn’t exist. She can’t see very well, can’t hear very well, and has some dementia so sleeping at night can be a bit of a pain in the ass.. for all of us but more for her since she can easily become stressed out.
As you may have guessed by now, last night was a bit of an adventure. Like I said she was a bit antsy and so we decided to let her out. I got up out of bed put on my pants, sweatshirt, socks... I picked her up and carried her downstairs to go outside. We can’t trust her to go down the steps by herself because of her poor eyesight, especially at night. I got downstairs and put her outside and turn around for a moment to look for my coat and shut the door. In that moment she was gone prancing around the yard as if she had to make a bowel movement.
Next thing I know I can’t find her. I CANT FIND HER! I CAN’T SEE HER!!! Sheer panic set in!!!!!! I turned around quickly and grabbed the flashlight and a couple of other items and knew that I only had a few moments before she would be lost. You should’ve seen me running around the neighbors yards with anxiety and panic. I was clapping because Molly’s hearing is not good at all and she can only hear loud clapping sometimes. I was also yelling out for her trying not to wake my neighbors up. They also have a ring doorbell and cameras around their home so I knew that would be fun for them to look at in the morning.
After about two or three minutes, my wife noticed I was gone for way too long and came out to find me. She called out to find out what was wrong. I yelled to her and said that I lost Molly and I am frantically looking for her. I must’ve looked like an idiot. I now know what it feels like for parents who lose their children in the blink of an eye. I felt extreme anxiety and panic overwhelm my entire body. All I could think about was this 7 pound, half deaf, half blind, dementia ridden dog running around the neighborhood in fear. Everything from losing her forever, her being snatched up by a fox or coyote, or her getting hit by a car filled my head in a matter of seconds. Terrible terrible terrible feeling.
Best case was that if we did lose her that someone would find her. The only problem is they wouldn’t know that she was an Addison‘s dog. She wouldn’t get the medicine she needed and the people who found her wouldn’t know why she wasn’t feeling well. It makes me sick to think about it.
In the end, after about two or three rounds around the houses and a lot a lot of clapping, yelling, and looking with a flashlight, she appeared in our yard. She definitely came from another direction where she shouldn’t have been. THANK GOD she remembered where she lived! I was sure that she would have forgotten her way home.
My wife could tell you that I was sweating, angry, scared, pissed, thankful, all kinds of emotions. But in the end I was happy. I was happy and grateful that she found her way back to us. Thank goodness! I don’t know what We would have done if I would have lost her.
We didn’t end up sleeping well that night, but she did. She eventually fell asleep and slept soundly. At least one of us did!
Things are going to change. My wife and I said that we can’t leave her out by herself anymore like we used to. She just can’t remember where she is half the time and looks like she’s confused especially in the dark. I don’t want to go through that again, that’s for sure! I feel like I lost several years off my life after going through that.
Good News Is She Is Safe and Sound ..
I’m back home with us. She wouldn’t survive the cold night and dangers that fill it.
Back To The Comforts She Remembers ..
Tonight, just about 20 hours later, sh is back to snuggling in the voids of the pillows and blankets. Our hearts dropped a little but we feel much better now knowing that she’s home and we will treat this type of situation much differently in the future. Unfortunately we can’t trust her to remember where she is from now on. It is sad but it is also a part of life. That was a wake up call!
There is only one Molly for us. We want to keep her around as well as safe and sound as long as possible. We are blessed.
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Oh my God!
Reading your post and understanding how hard it is and being very worried about Molly, I skipped the rest of the text and found the end of the post.
After reading and calming down that everything is fine with Molly, I again returned to the beginning of the post and read it in full.
I fully felt your condition, since one time our dog ran away, as we walked with her without a leash.
At that time, my late husband was walking with him.
He returned without him and then the two of us went to look for him.
Panic, horror, fear, pain that cannot be dealt with!!!
We found him on the beach where he was running with a girl (dog).
After that, without a leash, we did not walk with him!
Health Molly and my love to her!
I'm glad your story had a happy ending too! Yes it really sucks when we lose our for babies and have to track them down in a hurry before something bad happens or they go off to far. It's even worse when it's pitch black out and you can't see anything. If she was a bigger dog I guess I would be able to see her better but then again she would move a lot quicker and I may lose her faster. Luckily that wasn't the case and she found her way home! We will be taking her out on a leash or walking next to her next time she has to go out so late at night.
I think it wouldn't hurt if she had a glow-in-the-dark collar with your phone number on it.
GOOD IDEA!!! 😊
😊
Oh my goodness, I am so glad that Molly is back safe.
I can so relate to your feelings, just ten days ago our beloved Nico/Nicole (our pet cockatiel) flew away.
She is mostly free and flying around our home but ten days ago I was up in my terrace garden and Nicole was with my husband while he was working, she was whistling away sitting on his laptop. Suddenly she flew up and the hubs thought that as usual she came looking up for me.
Little did he know that I was on the terrace and Nicole I guess went looking for me in the rooms upstairs and not finding me anywhere she went out to the balcony and flew away.
Hubs and I went all around the neighborhood whistling and calling out to her.
He is still in guilt and shock and I went into the process of grieving.
Our home is so quiet without her and the dogs are always searching for her. I just didn't want to talk about this and I read your post.
I am really happy that Molly came back, I know you will be extra careful with her now.
Oh No! I am so sorry to hear about Nico. Maybe she will return one day once she is done exploring her new world. I will pray for it. It must be hard because you just don't know if she is okay or not. I would like to think she is very happy and enjoying her limitless flights. Thank you for the concern over Molly. We are watching her closer now, but shouldn't be a continuous problem since she rarely goes out so late at night.
I hope she does. We never stop calling out to her.
Take care . My love and best wishes to little Molly
Ugh, I know that feeling all to well... We have lost Jo a couple of times in areas that are quite busy traffic wise. Back in the day she used to be a lot harder to catch than she is now. She never really responded to commands well either so if you tell her to come she just ignores you or looks at you like you are an idiot. Then you chase her and she thinks it is a game. I remember one time I just collapsed, we were visiting our inlaws in Columbus, OH and I was like this is it, she is going to get hit by a car. Another time I was out of town at a conference. My wife called in a panic late at night, Jo was staying at a different inlaws an they lost her. I was two hours away and couldn't do anything to help. We eventually learned that if you hopped in the car and asked her if she wanted to go for a ride she would jump right in. Now, she can't move very fast, so keeping up with her isn't too bad. We have a fenced back yard though.
That's a crazy story. Sucks worse when you're not home and can't do anything at all about it. If we fenced in our yard it would cost 25-30,000$ easy, so I'm not doing that. Maybe one of those super heavy chains 😆. Just kidding. Obviously. I thought of attaching one of those Apple chip finders on her collar so I could track her if it happens again, but then again we are up her butt right now. It really was a freak thing since she is never really out of our sight. Thank goodness all is okay now.
Haha, wow, yeah we are only on a 1/4 of an acre, so the fence thing wasn't too bad. Actually we just had a new one put in. White vinyl privacy, I think it was $6000 or so. They have those portable ones that people put around their pools. You could maybe do one of those to make just a small area for her to go in. At least in the winter. You are right, the important thing is that she is okay.
Yeah.. we have a bit more property than that, and no plans on fencing it in. lol. My neighbors are cool too. We shuffle back and fourth between properties. A fence would get in the way! hehehe. $6,000.00 is a good chunk of change. Bet it looks nice though and you didn't have to break your back putting it up!
Yeah, it is pretty cool. It keeps Jovi in check too. The funny thing is because we have a bi level our deck sits so high that you can see right over it. It doesn't really provide much privacy. Gotta get ready for the bomb cyclone that is supposed to hit us this weekend...
It was quite an odyssey that you lived, it is as you say, pets are like little children, and we worry about them, before our baby was born we had a beautiful dog that we called Brown, unfortunately he died, and there were several occasions where he got sick and we were very attentive to the point of not sleeping at night and the same thing has already happened with our baby, so I identify with you.
You have shown your deep love for Molly, and it shows not only in one night, by your care and by how beautiful she looks.
Keep up the vigilance and success.
Thank you for the great advice! It's true we do love our fur babies as much as real ones, and their lives are so much shorter. Congratulations on having a child! I'm sure you will have many many many many years of happiness. Just don't let them out in the middle of the night by themselves. Lol. We were very emotional but we are very happy now that she is back and safe and sound. We'll just have to adjust how we watch her and let her out if she has to go back out late at night. She's very old now so her hearing and eyesight are not very good, and she has a touch of dementia starting. We will keep her as happy as weekend, as comfortable as we can, and obviously keep a closer eye on her! Lol
OMG I can imagine the situation because something similar happened to me with my dog yesterday. She is a young dog and she is not deaf, but she tries to make me think she is.
She loves to run when she is off leash. Where I live there are lots of rabbits and foxes so she enjoys chasing them. I had to buy her a collar that has a beep for when I press the button on a remote, so I hear where she is running and she hears the beep and comes back. But yesterday I got distracted for a moment answering a message on my phone and suddenly I didn't see her and I didn't hear her beep either. She had run far away, I couldn't see her and it was already getting dark so it was going to be more difficult to find her. I was also shouting like crazy everywhere her name to see if she would come back, desperate and nervous, on the verge of crying at the end after a few minutes she came back. I was so angry that I didn't know whether to give her a hug or a slap for the scare she had given me😂. But I grabbed her by the leash and went back home trying to calm down. Take good care of Molly!! Enjoyed your story lol
There's a bit of comedy in your post. Love it! Yes I hit all the emotions as well. I was panicking, nervous, upset, then she came home and I was mad. It took me forever to get back to sleep as well because my mind was going 1000 miles an hour. Maybe I should look into one of those apple chip things that you can put with your keys and find with your phone. Maybe I can attach it to a collar and put that on her. Lol.
My neighbors also saw me on their video cameras and called the next day to find out if I saw some crazy person running around the neighborhood with a flashlight. That was me! Didn't mean to scare everyone. I'm so glad that your story and my story had a happy ending. Thank you for the concern and responding with such a nice comment.
That was a close call. Our Abby went on a similar journey down the street after my dad left the side gate open while my mum had her out the back while putting clothes on the clothes line. Next thing Abby's gone on an adventure, her first time she's ever gone off on her own like that. Luckily, she only got a few houses down the street before my parents saw her called her back.
Oh my goodness! That's good that they realize she was gone so quickly before she got too far. It's amazing how fast the dogs can get away when they want to. Luckily Molly made her way back. Heck, can't blame her she's got it pretty good around here. Lol
I had the same problem with my old cat. She had always gone in and out when she wanted. But about 4 years before she died we never let her outside unless we were following her around. She'd never gone out at night anyways, too many coyotes, etc.
As you say, the dementia meant she wouldn't remember where she lived. The old cat did get outside twice, and Tom and I were running around frantically (I can so relate to your story) in the daylight looking for her before she disappeared into woods or tall grass. Both times we found her after a bit of a search.
I'm glad Molly was ok!
It really is quite the moment of panic, isn't it?! They are otherwise helpless and unfamiliar, so I feared the worst all at once. Thank goodness it worked out and she remembered where she lived.
Happy to know you can finally find your cute Molly. Molly looks to much stressful. Day by day molly become to normal and you can also go for doctor to checkup health. I have one cute cat his name is tiger. Two days he is going outside of home and other cat attack him. He is so nervous. Now day by day he become normal again.
Awww.. Poor Tiger. Sorry that she got attacked. Yes, cats are very territorial. Glad she is okay now. Molly is old now and needs lots of help, attention, and I guess watching so she does not get into trouble. lol
Oh, I'm so glad Molly was alright. If that will happen to my fur baby here, I can have anxiety attack too. As I read your blog, I feel the intense suspense and hoping that everything will be okay.
Praise God and she's safe. Hugs and kisses for you baby Molly. Please don't dare doing it again.
Thank you for the concern and prayers! Yes we are Soooooo happy that she is back home and safe. We keep a closer eye on her now.
I know you are a protective mom. Thank you. Somebody extends her regards to Molly, its Bebe. She's my daily companion in school.
OH MY GOSH HOW STINKIN CUTE IS BEBE!!!!!!!!! 😍😁😊
My Molly does the same but would NEVER sit on top of my desk.
Thanks for sharing that photo.. It made my day!
My Bebe is so behave. When I have classes she'll stay at the library without bothering anybody.
When she likes to pee, she will simply jump from my table, go out(peed) and go back to same spot.
Oh! I almost had a heart attack reading your post! So glad it all turned out very well! What a relief! Oh! I couldn’t breathe properly for three minutes! In fact I stopped breathing! Now I’m okay. 😂
Yeah.. tell me about it. lol. She is safe now thank goodness.
Dam, that was a close call. Glad she came back. I would’ve been just like you. Glad she’s safe.
Yes.. thank you! I hit all of the emotions. lol.
Wowww, I am so sorry you are going through that, you are such worried parents, our little furry ones are our children, we love them and we don't want anything to happen to them. Thank God you came back and were able to get her. I hope that she will be comfortable for the rest of her life and she will be because she has someone to love and protect her.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
God bless you @bdmillergallery 🐾
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It made us really nervous there for a few minutes, that's for sure. She has so many problems and needs daily medication, so if someone else would find her, they may not know what is wrong when she starts getting sick. Thank goodness it didn't come to that!
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