Valerie, the dash dispersed for 18 months in Australia, returns home healthy and saved. How did you survive alone?
Given its small dimensions it is a miracle that has managed to resist so long in wild nature. The hypothesis is that he has noticed the carcasses of animals who died along the streets
Valeriea small dash lost on an Australian island for 18 monthswho would then be like saying about half of his life, met to his owners. Georgia Gardner He said that the dog approached her without hesitation when she reviewed her at Kangala Wildlife Rescue Of Kangaroo Islandoff the coast of southern Australia. The meeting took place on Tuesday. They did not see since last Novemberwhen the traces had been lost.
« He ran straight to me and I burst into tears – said the woman -. He wagged, emitted divers of joy and wagbated. I kept it in my arms and cried and cried and cried again ». Valerie is almost 3 years old and was found in recent days in surprisingly good conditions, after having lived for 529 days like a wild animal. Weighed 4 kg when it was lostin the meantime, has grown and now has come to weigh it 6.8. It is assumed that it has survived feeding on the remains of animals invested on the road And other luck foods, including excrement.
Gardner and his partner, Josh Fishlockthey were on vacation on the island and had moved away from the campsite where they had settled to go fishing. The dog in their absence managed to escape from a fence in which it was kept. The couple, realizing the disappearance, sought her for a long time, but without outcome. And in the end she had been forced to return to the mainland without her. In March, however, the volunteers of the Kangala Wildlife Rescue, a non -profit protection service service, randomly sighted it while they patrolled a wild area. They organized accurate research and after about a thousand hours of activity And along about 5 thousand km They found it and secured it.
The dog had already been identified a first time thanks to a security camera, while he sniffed the bait of a trap. In which, however, he had not fallen. « Consider its small size – commented Jaredkarran, director of the Kangala Wildlife Rescue – It was a miracle that managed to survive so much Without anyone who took care of it and in an environment certainly not simple ».
Gardner and Fishlock brought it home, ad Alburyin the new South Wales. They have already contacted an expert in canine behavior to help Valerie a REMOVING TO HOME LIFE. Also from the food point of view. At the beginning, however, a diet based on raw food will follow. At home he will find a cat waiting for her, Lucyand a shepherd dog, Masonboth saved by a kennel, which he already knew. But there will also be a surprise: one of his similar ones, another dash of name Dorothy.
