Fellow Creatures: Valerie the Daring Dachshund and How Dogs Survive When Lost
My latest post at Psychology Today looks at the story of a valiant dog who is missing on an Australian island.
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| Stokes Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Photo: Vlad Kutepov/Pexels |
News that a 4kg miniature Dachshund is still alive after going missing on Kangaroo Island, Australia, more than a year ago, set me thinking about how dogs can survive without people.
Valerie, the miniature Dachshund, was recently sighted 16 months after she first went missing, and now a local rescue has set cameras and traps to catch her. It’s not known how Valerie has survived this long and whether local people have helped her—although, given that she is wearing a pink collar, you would think that anyone who saw her would mention it, just like the person who spotted her and told the rescue. So it seems most likely that she has survived on her own.
Read more on my Fellow Creatures blog: Valerie the daring Dachshund and how dogs survive when lost
