Here's a story that gives new meaning to the term survivor. From Australia comes news that a pet dog that fell overboard in choppy waters has been reunited with its owners, four months later!
The dog, a type of Australian cattle dog, is named Sophie Tucker, after the late film star. She fell off her family's sailboat in November and was believed to have drowned. (Question 1: Why wasn't that dog wearing a life vest?)
Instead, she paddled over five nautical miles in rough seas and washed up on St. Bees, a largely uninhabited island. Rangers discovered Sophie Tucker when she began killing feral goats.
Jan Griffith said her family was heart broken at the loss of Sophie. She contacted rangers who had reported finding a dog on the island of St. Bees in the possibility that it could be Sophie. She also said when the rangers first spotted her, Sophie was looking thin and bedraggled. But then they started finding goat carcasses and Sophie began looking more robust.
The rangers put two and two together, rounded up Sophie and made people aware of her existence. Sure enough, when the rangers brought the dog to meet the Griffiths, there was no denying that she belonged to them. "We called the dog and she started whimpering and banging the cage and they let her out and she just about flattened us," Griffith told the Australian wire services.
Just goes to show you that some domestic dogs, like some humans, can indeed adopt an island "survivor" mentality, even if there is no prize attached. "She surprised us all. She was a house dog and look what she's done. She's swum over five nautical miles and she's managed to live off the and all on her own."
Dare we even suggest the tribe has spoken?
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